Seaway Food Town Explained

Seaway Food Town
Type:Public
Founded:1948
Defunct:2003
Hq Location Country:United States
Num Locations:73
Num Employees:4,551[1]
Parent:Spartan Stores 2000-2003

Seaway Food Town, Inc. was a company that operated the Food Town chain of supermarkets and The Pharm chain of discount drug stores in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. Based in Maumee, Ohio, it was founded in 1948 as a buying and advertising cooperative, incorporated as Seaway Food Town in 1957, and became a publicly traded company in the early 1960s.[2] The company was acquired by Spartan Stores in August 2000.[3]

At the time of the merger with Spartan, the company operated 47 Food Town supermarkets and 26 The Pharm deep-discount drugstores.

In 2003 Spartan Stores sold or closed all 39 of the Food Town stores.[4]

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  1. Web site: History of Seaway Food Town, Inc. – FundingUniverse. 2020-06-03. www.fundinguniverse.com.
  2. Web site: History of Seaway Food Town, Inc. – FundingUniverse. 2020-06-03. www.fundinguniverse.com.
  3. Web site: Downfall of an institution. 2020-06-03. Toledo Blade. en.
  4. Web site: Spartan To Close 13 Food Town Stores. 2020-06-03. WTOL. 6 March 2003 .