AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT is entered into this 25th day of April, 2004, by and between Meijer Stores Limited Partnership, hereinafter designated as the "Employer" and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Local 1099, AFL-CIO, CLC, hereinafter known as the "Union".

This agreement shall constitute the complete and only statement of contractual relationship between the Employer and the Union, and it is specifically agree that any understandings or practices that may have existed contrary to the specific terms and conditions of this Agreement dated April 25, 2004, prior to April 25, 2004, will be given no force or effect hereafter. The parties further agree that understandings or practices include, but are not limited to, resolutions of conflicts on an informal basis. The Employer and the Union accept the provisions of this Agreement as commitments which they will cooperatively in good faith honor, support, and seek to fulfill. The employees covered by this Agreement agree to work for the Employer in accordance with the terms and conditions specified, and the Employer agrees to maintain the terms and conditions specified herein for the life of the Agreement.

The parties acknowledge that during the negotiations which resulted in this Agreement, each had the unlimited right and opportunity to make demands and proposals with respect to and subject or agreements arrived at by the parties after the exercise of that right and opportunity are set forth in this Agreement.

Therefore, the Employer and the Union, for the life of this Agreement, each voluntarily and unqualifiedly waves the right, and each agrees that the other shall not be obligated to bargain collectively with respect to and subject or matter not specifically referred to or covered in this Agreement, except for participation in the grievance procedure as specified in the contract, even though such subjects or matters may not have been within the knowledge or contemplation of either or both of the parties at the time that they negotiated or signed this Agreement, except by mutual understandings.