Larry's Markets to Open New Redmond Store; First New Store in Four Years, Company's Seventh Will Add More Than 100 Jobs to Local Economy When it Opens in November 2005.

KIRKLAND, Wash. -- Larry's Markets, the name that long has been synonymous with selection, quality and knowledgeable and friendly service, today announced plans to open a new store at 116th St & Avondale Rd in Redmond in November 2005. When it opens, this new store -- the seventh in the Larry's family -- will add between 100 and 125 new jobs to the local community.

Larry's Markets operates one other Redmond store, approximately three miles away from the new site, in Redmond Town Center, which opened in July 2000, making it the newest in the family-owned line of stores. The company's other stores are located in Kirkland near Totem Lake, Bellevue, North Seattle, on Pacific Hwy S near Sea-Tac Airport and on lower Queen Anne Hill in Seattle.

"Opening a new store and being able to provide our customers with easier access to all their everyday shopping needs is very exciting to us," said Mark McKinney, CEO of Larry's Markets. "The new Avondale location will complement our Redmond Town Center, Bellevue and Kirkland stores perfectly, allowing people throughout the Eastside to have a convenient Larry's Markets store just around the corner."

The new store is the first step in a strategic plan announced by the company earlier this year, the two key elements of which include remodeling existing stores and continued growth. Larry's Markets' Bellevue store currently is being remodeled.

About Larry's Markets

Founded in Seattle, Larry's Markets, Inc. is one of the Northwest's premier grocery and retail operations. Larry's Markets provides a selection that fulfills its customers' everyday grocery needs, and features the freshest produce from local growers and meats, regional and international wine selections, and an excellent selection of natural and environmentally-friendly foods and household products. Larry's Markets believes in community involvement as a natural extension of the company's civic responsibility and encourages volunteerism from its more than 800 employees at six neighborhood locations. Locally- and family-owned since 1945, Larry's Markets' standard of excellence for the entire store and particularly the fresh departments continues to maintain its leadership position in the grocery industry.