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
Maumee ( ) is a city in Lucas County, Ohio, United States. Located along the Maumee River, it is about 10 miles southwest of Toledo. The population was 14,286 at the 2010 census. Maumee was declared an All-America City by the National Civic L ...
, 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 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.
See also
*
Rich Iott - CEO of the family firm at the time of its merger
References
External links
Archived site
{{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