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SpartanNash

SpartanNash is a Byron Center, Michigan food solutions company that operates as both a wholesale grocery distributor and a retail grocer. Its wholesale segment supplies roughly 2,100 independent retail locations, national accounts and e-commerce partners from a network of distribution centers, and through its MDV business it is the leading distributor of grocery products to United States military commissaries and exchanges worldwide. Its retail segment operates roughly 200 corporate-owned supermarkets under banners including Family Fare, Martin's Super Markets, D&W Fresh Market, VG's Grocery, Dan's Supermarket, Family Fresh Market, Needler's Fresh Market, Fresh City Market, Forest Hills Foods and Supermercado Nuestra Familia, alongside pharmacy and fuel centers. Formed by the 2013 merger of Spartan Stores and Nash Finch, the company traded on Nasdaq as SPTN until C&S Wholesale Grocers completed its acquisition of SpartanNash on September 22, 2025; SpartanNash now operates as part of C&S and its corporate web properties are progressively being folded into cswg.com. SpartanNash publishes no public developer program, API documentation or machine-readable API contract; supplier and customer system integration is transacted over EDI through trading-partner onboarding rather than a public API.

SpartanNash is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Fortune 500, Grocery, Food Distribution, Wholesale, and Retail.

SpartanNash’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 7 more developer resources.

11.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
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Fortune 500GroceryFood DistributionWholesaleRetailSupply ChainMilitary CommissaryLogisticsConsumer GoodsMichigan

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0
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Security Posture 1

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Spartannash Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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Press 5

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
name: SpartanNash
description: SpartanNash is a Byron Center, Michigan food solutions company that operates as both a wholesale grocery distributor
  and a retail grocer. Its wholesale segment supplies roughly 2,100 independent retail locations, national accounts and e-commerce
  partners from a network of distribution centers, and through its MDV business it is the leading distributor of grocery products
  to United States military commissaries and exchanges worldwide. Its retail segment operates roughly 200 corporate-owned
  supermarkets under banners including Family Fare, Martin's Super Markets, D&W Fresh Market, VG's Grocery, Dan's Supermarket,
  Family Fresh Market, Needler's Fresh Market, Fresh City Market, Forest Hills Foods and Supermercado Nuestra Familia, alongside
  pharmacy and fuel centers. Formed by the 2013 merger of Spartan Stores and Nash Finch, the company traded on Nasdaq as SPTN
  until C&S Wholesale Grocers completed its acquisition of SpartanNash on September 22, 2025; SpartanNash now operates as
  part of C&S and its corporate web properties are progressively being folded into cswg.com. SpartanNash publishes no public
  developer program, API documentation or machine-readable API contract; supplier and customer system integration is transacted
  over EDI through trading-partner onboarding rather than a public API.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/spartannash.png
created: '2026-07-22'
modified: '2026-08-26'
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
  email: info@apievangelist.com
  url: https://apievangelist.com
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
tags:
- Fortune 500
- Grocery
- Food Distribution
- Wholesale
- Retail
- Supply Chain
- Military Commissary
- Logistics
- Consumer Goods
- Michigan
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/spartannash-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.spartannash.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.spartannash.com/feed/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spartannash
- type: Support
  url: https://www.spartannash.com/contact/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.spartannash.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.spartannash.com/privacy/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/SpartanNash-Company
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/spartannash-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: SpartanNash publishes no developer surface at all — there is no developer. or api. subdomain (both fail DNS), every
    spec path on the corporate host 404s, the vendor-integration page now 301s to the C&S Wholesale Grocers parent site where
    supplier onboarding is EDI-only, and the SpartanNash GitHub orgs hold one 2016 JavaScript widget between them.
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.spartannash.com/openapi.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://developer.spartannash.com/openapi.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.spartannash.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.spartannash.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.spartannash.com/wholesale/vendor/
    status: 301
  - url: https://www.spartannash.com/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/SpartanNash/repos
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-26'

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