| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1948 |
| Defunct | 2003 |
| Headquarters | |
Number of locations | 73 |
Number of employees | 4,551[1] |
| Parent | Spartan Stores 2000-2003 |
Seaway Food Town, Inc. was a company that operated theFood Town chain of supermarkets andThe Pharm chain of discount drug stores in NorthwestOhio and SoutheastMichigan. Based inMaumee, 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 bySpartan 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.[3]
In 2003 Spartan Stores sold or closed all 39 of the Food Town stores.[3][4]