United Natural Foods, Inc. to webcast Annual Meeting of Stockholders

United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI 36.45, +0.10, +0.28%) is scheduled to hold its Annual Meeting of Stockholders on Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 5:30 pm EST on the internet through a virtual web conference. The matters to be voted on at the meeting are set forth in UNFI's Proxy Statement which was posted on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website on November 5, 2010.

The Company is offering a live webcast of the Virtual Annual Meeting at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/unfi.

Additionally, UNFI shareholders of record as of October 18, 2010 will be able to vote and ask questions online during the virtual meeting. Any UNFI stockholder who received a proxy voting card will be able to enter the virtual conference by using the dedicated 12-digit access proxy control number distributed with their Notice of Proxy. Once in the virtual shareholder meeting, UNFI stockholders can hear the live webcast as well as interactively cast or change a vote during the meeting.

Please allow at least 10 minutes, prior to the event, to visit the site and download the necessary software to listen to the Internet broadcast.

About United Natural Foods

United Natural Foods, Inc. (http://www.unfi.com) carries and distributes more than 60,000 products to more than 23,000 customer locations throughout the United States and Canada. The Company serves a wide variety of retail formats including conventional supermarket chains, natural product superstores, independent retail operators and the food service channel. United Natural Foods, Inc. was ranked by Forbes in 2005 as one of the "Best Managed Companies in America," ranked by Fortune in 2006 - 2010 as one of its "Most Admired Companies," winner of the Supermarket News 2008 Sustainability Excellence Award, and recognized by the Nutrition Business Journal for its 2009 Environment and Sustainability Award.

For more information on United Natural Foods, Inc., visit the Company's website at www.unfi.com.