Meals.com Adds Schnuck Markets to Family of Web Sites; St. Louis Based Retailer Becomes 21st Co-branded Site To Be Powered By Meals.com.

Business Editors, High-Tech Writers

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2001

Meals.com Inc., a subsidiary of Coinstar (Nasdaq:CSTR), today announced it is providing a co-branded version of Meal.com's online recipe content and meal planning tools to St. Louis based Schnuck Markets.

The new Meals.com content is available at the Schnucks Markets Web site at www.schnucks.com. Meals.com's proprietary technology helps consumers save time and money while they are planning meals and preparing to shop for food.

"We think customers will be pleased with the new Meals.com recipes and meal planning tools now found on Schnucks Web site," said Craig D. Schnuck, chairman and chief executive officer of Schnuck Markets Inc. "The new features provide customers with thousands of meal ideas and very easy-to-use tools to help organize and simplify meal planning and grocery shopping."

Schnucks customers will have access to more than 10,000 recipes that can be sorted by cooking method, special diets and cuisine. Tools such as My Meal Plans, My Grocery List and My Recipe Box, as well as the ability to scale recipes to family size and expert nutritional and cooking advice will be available to customers.

"The content and tools we are providing Schnucks fits the style and needs of their Web site," said Russ Ruby, vice president of marketing and retail development for Meals.com. "The Meals.com features will help personalize the online experience for Schnucks customers and position Schnucks Markets to take advantage of additional technology and online services in the future."

The Schnucks Web site is an online destination, providing information and services for busy consumers. The Schnucks home page offers many convenient features including:

-- Online grocery shopping with Schnucks Express Connection.

-- The ability to place floral orders for delivery locally or anywhere in the
world.

-- Pharmacy prescription refills.

-- E-mail link to Schnucks' consumer affairs department for easy communication
of questions or comments about Schnucks' products and services.

-- Directory of Schnucks stores by geographic location and services provided.

About Schnucks

Schnuck Markets Inc. currently operates 92 stores in three states, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. The family owned company was founded in St. Louis in 1939.

About Meals.com

Meals.com Inc. connects consumers, grocery stores and manufacturers through online and in-store technologies that provide shoppers with relevant information and special offers based on their personal preferences. The Meals.com network of private label Web sites includes agreements or letters of intent with supermarket retailers representing more than 8,100 stores with an estimated 70-million customers, as well as a growing list of women's Web sites and portals. Meals.com is a subsidiary of Coinstar Inc. (Nasdaq:CSTR), a coin counting and e-services company.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties relating to the business of Coinstar and its majority-owned subsidiary Meals.com, including statements about Meals.com's future performance with respect to customer contracts. The words "believe", "expect", "intend", "anticipate", variations of such words, and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that the statement is not forward-looking. Actual results could differ materially from the results identified or implied in any forward-looking statement discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, Meals.com's ability to execute on its contracts and its ability to attract and retain retailers, the continued consolidation of Meals.com's losses by Coinstar, uncertainties related to the exploration by Coinstar of strategic alternatives for Coinstar and Meals.com, the ability to obtain new agreements with potential retail partners for the installation of Coinstar units, the successful deployment and operation of Coinstar's coin processing network, and customer utilization of Coinstar's service. Certain of these risks and other risks are more fully described under the caption "Risk Factors" included in the most recent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Coinstar, Inc.