SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* CARUANA KEN (Last) (First) (Middle) 4440 ROSEWOOD DR. (Street) PLEASANTON CA 94588 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 06/06/2005	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol ROSS STORES INC [ ROST ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below) SVP, Strategy	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

No securities are beneficially owned.

	/s/ Mark Askanas Attorney in Fact for Ken Caruana	06/07/2005
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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ROSS STORES, INC.
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby
authorizes Mark Askanas, General Counsel, Jane Marvin, Senior Vice
President of Human Resources and John Call, Chief
Financial Officer, and their designees, Mary Tanner, Vice
President of Human Resources, Chuck Kurth, Vice President of
Finance and Treasurer and Ken Jew, Vice President and Corporate
Counsel, of Ross Stores, Inc. (the "Company"), to
execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the
undersigned's capacity as an officer or director of the Company,
Form ID Uniform Application for Access Codes to File on EDGAR,
Forms 4 and 5, and any amendments thereto, and cause such
form(s) to be filed with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities
Act of 1934, relating to the undersigned's beneficial ownership
of securities in the Company.  The undersigned hereby grants to
each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and
perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the
rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally
present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do
or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the
rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges
that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such
capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's
responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and
effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms
4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of, and
transactions in, securities issued by the Company, unless
earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered
to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has cause this Power of
Attorney to be executed as of this 17 day of May, 2005.
/s/ Ken Caruana



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