Sylvia Maloney on the run
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- Published on Thursday, July 7, 2016
By Jessie Bell
Sylvia sure can run, and while pushing a grocery cart too! That鈥檚 Sylvia Maloney of Rivers, who won the grand prize in The Grocery People (TGP) $600,000 Fresh Giveaway contest. The six-week promotion began April 30 at all TGP stores (Bigway Foods and Super A Foods) and included weekly $25 gift cards and a 50-second shopping spree.
From an alert start at noon on Thursday, June 30, Sylvia was on her way around the aisles in a rush to fill her cart. The spree ended on time at Chelsey Brown鈥檚 till where the food was checked out at $316.25. She was so excited she uttered, 鈥淚鈥檓 going to always shop here!鈥�
According to store owner Kelly Davidson, 鈥淲e cleared the store, then held back the remaining customers. Chelsey and I followed her around as she tore through the store! She started with coffee, broke for meat and ended up just able to grab some big blocks of cheese as I counted her down from 10. I was giving her updates on time as she went, but not many as I didn't want to fluster her, and it went by so quickly! Sylvia was able to grab meat, coffee, seafood and dairy, all at an incredible speed!鈥�
Winners of the gift cards were all Rivers people: Garry Radford, Michelle McFadden, Phyllis Jordens, Rosemary Moncrief, Bonnie Heudebourck and Jennifer Braun. This is not the first shopping spree at Rivers鈥� Hwy. 25 grocery store, but it is the first one Kelly has co-ordinated since he and wife Cheryl became owners in October 2010. TGP is now offering at all stores a summer promotion of a three-piece cooler set, lawn games and food; winner of this prize will be drawn on July 29.
