The ARCS Group is a food distribution group with 10 food supermarkets and one other operating company with locations in Hokkaido, Tohoku, and northern part of Kanto.​

ARCS COMPANY,LIMITED is a pure holding company that owns shares of the operating companies and, as a parent company, supervise the entire group and formulates strategies.​

The operating companies are engaged in community-based food supermarket and related businesses guiding by the strategy of ARCS.​

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In 2002, RALSE Co., Ltd. (Sapporo) and Fukuhara Co., Ltd. (Obihiro) merged to establish ARCS Co., Ltd. Subsequently, in 2004, Dounan Ralse Co., Ltd. (Hakodate) and Fuji Co., Ltd. (Asahikawa) joined the group. In 2009, TOKOU STORE Co., Ltd. (Sapporo) also became a part of the group. In the fiscal year ending in February 2011, the ARCS Group achieved annual revenue of 300 billion yen, marking a significant milestone as the first in Hokkaido's retail industry to achieve this turn over.​

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In 2007, ARCS Group signed a franchise agreement with CAINZ Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the Beisia Group, and opened the first “CAINZ HOME" store in Hokkaido.​
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In 2011, Universe Co., Ltd. (Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture) and Shinohara Shouten Co., Ltd. (Abashiri City) joined the group. In 2012, JOIS Co., Ltd. (Morioka, Iwate Prefecture) became a part of the group. Additionally, in 2014, Bell plus Co., Ltd. (Morioka, Iwate Prefecture) also joined the group. The ARCS Group achieved an annual revenue of 500 billion yen in the fiscal year ending in February 2016.​
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In 2019, Ito Chain Co., Ltd. (Shibata Town, Miyagi Prefecture) joined the group, and in 2021, Otani Co., Ltd. (Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture) became part of the group. As of May 28, 2024, the group operates a total of 375 stores.​

In order to maintain a short distance with our customers and achieve speedy management decisions, the ARCS Group is not a single large corporate entity that towers as high as Mt. Fuji, but rather a corporate alliance that is made up of mountains of the same height, such as the Yatsugatake Mountain Range. That's what we are aiming for.​

This name was coined in an editorial by Hirotaro Higuchi, former honorary chairman of Asahi Breweries, Ltd., published in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun on May 11, 2000, entitled ‘’Establish it quickly a New Japanese-style Management. ‘’It looks great but it inevitably have a further distance to the customers, and it is unable to respond to their requests precisely. From now on, there will be a need for group management in which companies of approximately the same size are lined up like the Yatsugatake Mountain Range. ''.​