Affiliated Foods Southwest is a retailers' cooperative serving independent supermarkets in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. It was founded in 1948 by C. E. "Doc" Toland, who had worked in a cooperative in Little Rock, Arkansas called Model Markets. It is a member of Retailer Owned Food Distributors & Associates and distributes Shurfine products in its stores. Affiliated Foods Southwest also operates several Harvest Foods grocery stores in Arkansas.