Newtown Stop & Shop Raises $16,000

To Help Kids Fight Cancer

The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company announced this week that the Newtown Stop & Shop store raised $16,000 as part of the 2005 Triple Winner Game. The $16,000 is part of the $4 million raised in Stop & Shop stores across New England to benefit The Jimmy Fund.

The Triple Winner Game is a scratch card promotion in which every ticket is an instant winner, offering prizes of a free product, gift certificate, or cash prize up to $10,000. Throughout the summer, store associates sold $1 Triple Winner Game tickets at the checkout. In total, Stop & Shop Supermarkets and Giant Food of Landover, Md., raised $6 million through the 2005 Triple Winner Game.

“Each year, it seems that our associates embrace this great program more and more,” said Stop & Shop President and CEO Marc Smith. “It’s a great partnership between associates and customers who come together each summer to fight childhood cancer.”

Dr Mark Kieran, director of the Stop & Shop Pediatric Brain Tumor Clinic at Dana Farber, commented on what Triple Winner research dollars continue to mean in the fight against childhood cancer: “Each year, Stop & Shop is our champion, raising millions of dollars and transforming the lives of children and families in New England. The  most powerful reminder of Stop & Shop’s impact comes in my interactions as a physician with young patients, being able to offer a child that one further treatment that might be lifesaving.”

As they have in the past, the World Champion Boston Red Sox partnered with Stop & Shop to help promote the Triple Winner program.

To date, the Triple Winner program has raised more than $34 million to support childhood cancer research and search for a cure.

The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company, LLC, based in Quincy, Mass., employs more than 58,000 associates and operates 360 stores throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York, and New Jersey.