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

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and Southeast

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. Based in

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, 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. The company was acquired by

Spartan Stores SpartanNash (formerly Spartan Stores, Nash Finch) is an American food distributor and grocery store retailer headquartered in Byron Center, Michigan. The company's core businesses include distributing food to independent grocers, military co ...

in August 2000. 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.

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{{Supermarkets of the United States Defunct supermarkets of the United States Retail companies established in 1948 Retail companies disestablished in 2000 Companies based in Toledo, Ohio

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