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                          FURR'S/BISHOP'S, INCORPORATED
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                              LUBBOCK, TEXAS 79493


                            ADDITIONAL PROXY MATERIAL
                               DATED MAY 22, 1998

                                       FOR

                         ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
                             THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1998




                             ELECTION OF DIRECTORS


     The Company today  announced that one of the Board's  nominees for election
as a director at the Company's  upcoming annual meeting on May 28, 1998, Suzanne
Hopgood,  has  withdrawn  her name from the Board's  slate.  Should the Board of
Directors  designate a substitute nominee, it is intended that the persons named
on the WHITE proxy card and the STRIPED WHITE proxy card will vote the shares of
Common Stock represented  "FOR" such substitute  nominee to serve until the next
annual meeting  stockholders and until such nominee's  successor shall have been
duly elected and shall qualify.

                                                   FURR'S BISHOP'S, INCORPORATED


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