Sturken Straightens Course
By Kevin Murphy
Published: December 12, 2005
Craig Sturken has implemented a strategy that has Spartan Stores in better fiscal health. GRAND RAPIDS — There is a scene in the 2000 film “The Perfect Storm” that shows the fishing vessel Andrea Gail struggling its way along a trough between two enormous sea swells. As a sheer wall of churning water draws up before the craft, it’s not clear whether the boat will turn into the swell, floating unscathed to its crest, or be swept under, swallowed by the angry seas.

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