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DATE:
 May 26, 2021
CONTACT: Kathy Sautter
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TONAWANDA AND LANCASTER, NY RESIDENTS ARE LATEST WINNERS OF $10K IN TOPS MONOPOLY
Williamsville, N.Y. –Last week Tops was excited to award $10,000 in Food and Fuel stimulus as part of its Tops Monopoly Rip it and Win It Game to Ken M. of Lancaster, NY and Stephanie W. of Tonawanda, NY.

Ken never expected to be a winner of $10,000 from his local grocery store, but he certainly was thrilled once the initial shock wore off. “I usually get coupons, but never thought I’d be the BIG winner,” Ken told Tops officials. He laughed when he first saw the voucher, which was the last ticket he ripped open, telling us “what is this for – a half gallon of prune juice?” The next day Ken headed to the store to validate his winnings. “The store team was just as excited-so friendly, when I brought in my winning ticket,” said Ken. Ken kept his winnings on the down low only really calling a few of his siblings who lived out of town. Ken, who has always played the game said his philosophy has always been “gotta have a ticket to win it,” noted that he intends to have a family gathering this summer to celebrate, but some really nice steaks, and share his winnings with his daughter.

Fate was on her side the day Stephanie won $10k in food and fuel stimulus. She was running errands and decided to stop at Tops. Her 12-year-old daughter was actually the one who ripped open the winning ticket in their car and yelled out “we have a big winner!” “This is a true blessing because I am a single mother of two so this will really help us,” said Stephanie. And Stephanie has beginners luck as this was the first time she has played the game and she happened to start playing the game during double ticket week so they received 24 tickets! Stephanie is looking forward to celebrating with her children and her daughter is especially looking forward to enjoying some delicious seafood. Tops kicked off its 12th season of Monopoly® Rip It & Win It Game on Sunday, March 7, 2021. This year you’ll not only have a chance to win one of 50 Grand Prizes of $10,000 like the lucky individuals noted above, in Food & Fuel Stimulus, but millions of other prizes and great money saving offers!

Be sure to get your Rip It and Win It tickets at any Tops Friendly Markets location now through May 29, 2021 (or while tickets last) for your chance to instantly win amazing prizes including free 3- months of Xbox Game Pass Gift Card, $25 Gift Cards to local retailers, $5 & $10 Tops Grocery/Gas gift cards, Free $2.00 Redbox movie rentals, 50 & 100 Tops GasPoints vouchers, Free in store products, and many tickets contain money saving coupons, and more! Thanks to many key product vendor sponsors, these savings are above and beyond the everyday great values and we’re excited to pass these offers along to customers.

Tops Monopoly Rip It and Win It allows customers to play every time they check-out at a Tops Friendly Markets location using their Tops BonusPlus® card. Each purchase transaction will receive one game ticket and customers will also receive a game ticket for each participating vendor product purchased. The sooner you rip it the sooner you’ll see how much you’ve won! (For a no purchase necessary entry visit our website for details at topsmarkets.com).

When you play online or download the NEW Tops Rip It & Win It App to play your 12-digit code and scanable barcode, you’ll find out instantly if you’ve won! You can simply visit our website, Topsmarkets.com to log-in and enter your code or use the new App to scan the barcode inside your ticket. Each ticket may be a chance to win $10,000 Food & Fuel Stimulus, $1, $2, or $5 Tops Bonus Bucks eCoupons, $5 or $10 Tops Grocery Pickup or Delivery discount offers or free products and discount product eCoupons. What’s more - for every game code entered or scanned, participants receive an entry into a weekly drawing for a chance to win a $500 gift card from the Tops Gift Card Mall!

Plus, millions of game tickets will contain a lucky token which can be redeemed for door buster savings in the Tops weekly ad. Returning for a fourth year, game participants will find lucky tokens inside millions of game tickets! Save these tokens and every week during the Tops Monopoly program, check the front page of the Tops weekly ad to see if one of your lucky tokens matches that week’s featured deal. Redeem your token at checkout to unlock the extra savings!

Also when you play online select game tickets will award Magic Tokens, new in 2021. Magic Tokens can be saved in the player’s online game account and may be redeemed to receive an eCoupon for that week’s Weekly Lucky Token special which is loaded into their BonusPlus Card. This way you never have to miss out on a great deal just because you don’t have that week’s Lucky Token!

And what’s more-one lucky winner will be guaranteed to win our Second Chance Sweepstakes of $20,000 Food & Fuel Stimulus Prize!

For more details on this year’s game, visit www.topsmarkets.com today!

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About Tops Friendly Markets Tops Markets, LLC is headquartered in Williamsville, NY and operates 157 full-service supermarkets with five additional franchise stores and is the largest private, for-profit employer in Western New York. As a leading grocery retailer in New York, northern Pennsylvania, and western Vermont, and with the support of 15,000 associates, our core mission is to help our communities flourish. We support programs that seek to eradicate hunger and disease; promote the education of our youth; and to ensure we reduce environmental waste and energy consumption while providing our customers with sustainably sourced, high quality products. For more information, visit www.topsmarkets.com

 

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