Seaway Food Town Supermarkets began in 1948. The company operated Food Town Supermarkets and The Pharm

The Pharm

The Pharm was a drugstore chain based in Maumee, Ohio, with locations in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. Compared to competing drugstores, Pharm stores had a large selection of grocery items. Pharm stores had adopted a mascot named Discovery Dan...

 deep-discount drug stores in Northwest Ohio

Ohio

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 and Southeast Michigan

Michigan

Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

. Seaway Food Town was publicly-traded company which later merged with Spartan Stores

Spartan Stores

Spartan Stores Inc. is an American food distributor and grocery store chain headquartered in Byron Township, Michigan. The company distributes national and Spartan brand products to over 400 independent grocery stores in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.-History:...

in 2000.

At the time of the merger, 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, as the Toledo area's second leading grocer left town.