ShopKo Stores, Inc. provides general merchandise and retail health services through its two retail store chains in the United States. The company operates through two segments, ShopKo Retail and Pamida Retail. The ShopKo Retail segment offers merchandise and services for home, family basics, casual apparel, and seasonal products with an emphasis on retail health, operating in-store pharmacies, and optical centers. As of April 30, 2005, the company had 140 ShopKo retail stores. The Pamida Retail segment operates as a general merchandise retailer serving smaller and more rural communities. As of above date, the company had 223 Pamida retail stores. The company offers softline goods, including women's, men's, and children's apparel, shoes, jewelry, watches, and accessories. It also offers seasonal and everyday basic categories of hardline goods, such as housewares, home textiles, household supplies, health and beauty aids, home entertainment products, small appliances, electronics, furniture, cosmetics, music/videos, toys, sporting goods, greeting cards and gift wrap, candy, snack foods, and health and beauty aids, as well as lawn and garden. The company was incorporated in 1961 and is headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin. ShopKo Stores, Inc. formerly operated as a subsidiary of Supervalu, Inc.