Spartan Stores, Inc. engages in distributing and retailing groceries primarily in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. The company distributes approximately 47,000 stock-keeping units, including dry groceries, produce, dairy products, meat, deli, bakery, frozen food, seafood, floral products, general merchandise, pharmacy, and health and beauty care products to approximately 400 independent grocery stores and 87 corporate-owned stores. It also operates retail supermarkets, and deep-discount food and drug stores. Spartan Stores’ retail supermarkets offer dry groceries, produce, dairy products, meat, frozen food, seafood, floral products, general merchandise, beverages, tobacco products, health and beauty care products, delicatessen products, and bakery goods. The company’s deep-discount food and drug stores offer a full-service pharmacy, general merchandise products, and basic food offerings. The company also operates fuel centers under the banners Family Fare Quick Stop and D&W Fresh Markets Quick Stop in Michigan. As of March 31, 2007, the company operated 68 retail supermarkets and 19 deep-discount food and drug stores predominantly in midsize metropolitan, tourist, and lakeshore communities of Michigan and Ohio. Spartan Stores was founded in 1917 and is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.