SpartanNash sells and distributes products that are typically found in supermarkets and discount stores. The operating segments reflect the manner in which the business is managed and how the Company allocates resources and assesses performance internally. The Company’s chief operating decision maker is the Chief Executive Officer, who determines the allocation of resources and, through a regular review of financial information, assesses the performance of the operating segments. The business is classified by management into three reportable segments: Food Distribution, Military and Retail. These reportable segments are three distinct businesses, each with a different customer base, management structure, and basis for determining budgets, forecasts, and executive compensation. The Company reviews its reportable segments on an annual basis, or more frequently if events or circumstances indicate a change in reportable segments has occurred.

The Company’s Food Distribution segment, which operates 11 distribution centers, supplies grocery products, including dry groceries, produce, dairy products, meat, delicatessen items, bakery goods, frozen food, seafood, floral products, general merchandise, beverages, tobacco products, health and beauty care products and pharmacy primarily to a diverse group of independent and chain retailers, food service distributors and the Company’s corporate owned retail stores. The Company’s Food Distribution customer base is diverse. Sales to Dollar General represent 17%, 16%, and 14% of consolidated net sales for 2019, 2018 and 2017, respectively. No other single customer exceeded 4% of consolidated net sales in any of the years presented. The Company also offers certain value-added services (e.g., accounting, payroll, marketing, etc.) to its independent retail customers. These services are not material to the Company’s financial statements. Sales to independent retailers and inter-segment sales are recorded based upon either a “cost plus” model or a “variable mark-up” model, depending on the commodity and servicing distribution center. To supply its wholesale customers, the Company operates a fleet of tractors, conventional trailers and refrigerated trailers and also provides managed freight solutions.

The Military segment contracts with manufacturers and brokers to distribute a wide variety of grocery products, including dry groceries, beverages, meat, and frozen foods, primarily to U.S. military commissaries and exchanges from its 7 distribution centers, two of which are utilized by the Food Distribution segment. The contracts typically specify the commissaries and exchanges to supply on behalf of the manufacturer, the manufacturer’s products to be supplied, service and delivery requirements and pricing and payment terms. The Company is also the DeCA exclusive worldwide supplier of private brand grocery and related products to U.S. military commissaries. The Company procures the grocery and related products from various manufacturers, and upon receiving customer orders from DeCA, either delivers the products to the U.S. military commissaries itself or partners with a third party, Coastal Pacific Food Distributors, to deliver the products on its behalf.

The Retail segment operated 156 corporate owned retail stores and 37 fuel centers, predominantly in the Midwest region, as of December 28, 2019. The Company’s retail stores typically offer dry groceries, produce, dairy products, meat, delicatessen items, bakery goods, frozen food, seafood, floral products, general merchandise, beverages, tobacco products and health and beauty care products. The Company also offered pharmacy services in 97 of its corporate owned retail stores as of December 28, 2019.

Identifiable assets represent total assets directly associated with the reporting segments. Eliminations in assets identified to segments include intercompany receivables, payables and investments.

The following tables set forth information about the Company by reporting segment:

	Food
(In thousands)	Distribution			Military			Retail			Total
2019
Net sales to external customers	$	3,982,609		$	2,172,107		$	2,381,349		$	8,536,065
Inter-segment sales		976,372			—			—			976,372
Merger/acquisition and integration		(122	)		—			1,559			1,437
Restructuring, asset impairment and other charges (gains)		14,844			—			(1,794	)		13,050
Depreciation and amortization		33,396			11,834			43,171			88,401
Operating earnings (loss)		47,416			(9,316	)		18,842			56,942
Capital expenditures		28,385			6,295			40,135			74,815

2018
Net sales to external customers	$	3,991,450		$	2,166,843		$	1,906,259		$	8,064,552
Inter-segment sales		842,934			—			—			842,934
Merger/acquisition and integration		3,581			4			1,352			4,937
Restructuring, asset impairment and other charges (gains)		33,056			(801	)		5,291			37,546
Depreciation and amortization		32,073			11,968			38,812			82,853
Operating earnings		48,752			5,647			16,113			70,512
Capital expenditures		33,271			3,530			34,694			71,495

2017
Net sales to external customers	$	3,827,909		$	2,144,022		$	1,991,868		$	7,963,799
Inter-segment sales		885,872			—			—			885,872
Merger/acquisition and integration		6,244			1,522			335			8,101
Goodwill impairment		—			—			189,027			189,027
Restructuring, asset impairment and other charges		1,317			500			37,615			39,432
Depreciation and amortization		30,255			11,626			41,359			83,240
Operating earnings (loss)		83,115			6,969			(196,759	)		(106,675	)
Capital expenditures		25,990			6,482			38,434			70,906

							December 28,			December 29,
(In thousands)							2019			2018
Total Assets
Food Distribution							$	1,087,307		$	1,074,125
Military								390,799			405,587
Retail								794,413			489,049
Discontinued operations								3,090			3,151
Total							$	2,275,609		$	1,971,912