In 1990, Chuck Yoke sold the chain of stores to the employees, thus forming an employee stock ownership plan.

Yoke's Fresh Market was founded in 1946 in Spokane, Washington, by Marshall and Harriet Yoke. The switch will take place by early fall 2022. Yoke's announced that it would acquire both Missoula Fresh Market (formerly Safeway) in Missoula. In September 2016, Yoke's Fresh Market expanded their stores total to 17 by acquiring Trading Company Stores locations in Cheney, Latah Creek (South Spokane), Spokane Valley, and Post Falls. The Liberty Lake Yoke's opened their doors on March 2, 2016, at the old Safeway/Haggen location. In recent years, the chain has expanded into the southeastern portion of Washington, with stores in Pasco, Kennewick, West Richland, and Richland. John Bole currently directs company operations. In 1990, Chuck sold the chain to the employees. The chain was established by their son Chuck in the 1960s and now encompasses 17 stores in Washington and Idaho, primarily in the Spokane area.

Yoke's Fresh Market is an employee-owned Spokane, Washington-based chain of grocery stores founded in 1946 by Marshall and Harriet Yoke.

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