Associated Food Stores Migrates with Asysco

Salt Lake City, Utah - July 2010

Associated Food Stores, Inc. has selected Asysco to automatically migrate its 25 mission-

critical applications, currently running on A-Series Unisys mainframes, to the Microsoft

Windows Server platform using Asysco’s Automated Migration Technology–Visual Studio

(AMT-VS) software suite.

Asysco will be employing its signature, mainframe migration project management

methodology to guide Associated Food Stores through the 8 month project that will include

the conversion, testing and production delivery of more than one million lines of legacy

COBOL, ALGOL and WFLs to non-proprietary, open source, ASP.NET/VB.Net and will transfer

the DMSII databases to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (X64) relational database

management system.

About Associated Food Stores

Associated Food Stores, Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a cooperatively owned wholesale

distributor to almost 600 independently owned supermarkets in an eight state region.

Since its organization in 1940, Associated Food Stores has not only delivered groceries to independent

grocers, but has also helped them battle national chains and razor-thin profits. With the assistance of

Associated, most of these independent retailers have become exceptional supermarkets turning in

respectable profits.

Today, Associated Food Stores champions the cause of independent supermarket owners and is the only

independent wholesale distributor headquartered in the Intermountain West, employing over 1,400

people and shipping over 750 truckloads of groceries each week.

To learn more about Associated Food Stores, Inc. please visit www.afstores.com