Ground Breaking News From ShopKo

Ground Breaking News From ShopKo

GREEN BAY, Wis., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- ShopKo is announcing groundbreaking news for the Green Bay area.

ShopKo will break ground this month on the construction of the first new ShopKo store to be built in six years.

ShopKo opened its first store in Green Bay, Wis., in 1962. Since then, the company has expanded to include 132 stores across the Midwest, Mountain and Pacific Northwest regions. Three ShopKo Express Rx stores opened in Wisconsin in 2005.

The new ShopKo store will be a focal point of one of the fastest growing areas in Northeast Wisconsin. The 80,000 sq. ft. store will be located on eight acres north of the Green Bay Metro market.

"We are extremely excited to begin construction of a new ShopKo store in Suamico, a rapidly growing area of the Green Bay community," said Mike MacDonald, ShopKo chairman and chief executive officer.

The new Suamico store design incorporates a number of elements that will make our customers' shopping experience both stimulating and efficient. The store's color, lighting and fixturing will allow customers to easily see the merchandise and visualize how it might look in her home or on her body. The store layout will, of course, feature our Pharmacy and Optical Center at the very front of the store for added convenience and both of the Health Services departments will feature comfortable customer seating zones. The aisle pattern and signing in the store is designed to make the customer shopping experience very efficient. All parts of the store will allow for navigation by strollers and carts. The 80,000 square foot size of the Suamico store makes it large enough to carry our full assortment yet not so big as to overwhelm our customers.

The new store will be part of a 28 acre development being led by Midwest Expansion. The store is projected to open in the spring of 2008.

-- WHAT: Ground Breaking Ceremony for the first new full-line ShopKo
store in six years.
-- WHEN: May 30, 2007 at 10:00 AM
-- WHERE: 1/4 mile west of Hwy 41 on Lineville Road in Suamico
-- WHO: ShopKo chairman and CEO, Mike MacDonald, ShopKo President and
Chief Merchandising Officer, Paul White along with local
community leaders
-- WHY: To celebrate a whole new shopping experience coming to
Northeast Wisconsin

About ShopKo

ShopKo Stores Operating Co., LLC is an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners, Inc., a leading private investment firm focused on leverage buyouts, equity, debt, and other investments in market-leading companies that can benefit from its in-house operating professionals and experience. ShopKo is a $2.2 billion retailer of quality goods and services headquartered in Green Bay, Wis., with stores located in 13 states throughout the Midwest, Mountain and Pacific Northwest regions. Retail formats include 132 ShopKo stores, providing quality name-brand merchandise, great values, pharmacy and optical services in mid-sized to larger cities and three ShopKo Express Rx stores, a convenient neighborhood drugstore concept. For more information, please visit http://www.shopko.com/.

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Source: ShopKo Stores, Inc.

CONTACT: Brenda Vaughan of ShopKo, +1-920-429-4427

Web site:

http://www.shopko.com/

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