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Strack and Van Til Supermarkets Announce Latest Multimedia Experience For Their Customers Through The Grocery Stores' Web Sites

MINNEAPOLIS-(Business Wire)-August 26, 2008 - Strack and Van Tils’ Web sites have integrated everything a consumer needs to plan an affordable shopping trip. The Web sites make it easy to create a shopping list using: the interactive weekly circular, hundreds of dollars worth of money saving coupons, recipes that fit specific dietary preferences, and cooking videos. No longer does a person have to write a list on the back of an envelope, sort through pages and pages of papers for relevant coupons to clip, and come up with meal ideas; with these grocery store websites consumers can now interact with the weekly advertisements like never before! Once a customer has added all desired items, coupons, and recipe ingredients to the list, one additional click will print out the coupons and the list, with all items sorted by department.

Strack and Van Til’s Tim McInnis stated “Our goal is to give our customers the best shopping experience available on the web. It was great working with GSN, their expertise and products have put us ahead of our competition, but most of all, our customer’s just love using our Web sites.”

Andy Robinson, Grocery Shopping Network CEO stated “As more grocers adopt ways to service their customers in such a rapidly changing area such as the internet, it’s nice to provide ways that service customers while helping the grocer merchandise their store with their website. Now consumers can find deals, coupons, and plan meals just by going to their grocer’s website.”

About Strack and Van Til

Strack & Van Til, a subsidiary of Chicago-based grocery distributor Central Grocers Cooperative, operates 30 retail locations in and around the Chicago and Northern Indiana area. The grocery store websites can be found at www.strackandvantil.com, www.ultra-foods.com, and www.town-country-market.com.

About Grocery Shopping Network

Grocery Shopping Network provides grocery retailers’ Web sites with a suite of proprietary software products that integrate shopping list building, recipes and meal planning with relevant, focused advertising content. GSN (www.groceryshopping.net) brings together the Web and in-store supermarket shopping experience. A GSN-powered site enables consumers to seamlessly shop their store, be presented with sales and promotions in the context of the items they are planning to purchase, access and save recipes for the items they plan to purchase, plan meals and utilize the many discount offers (including coupons) made available by brand manufacturers.

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