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Wednesday 16 December 2015
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Two winners, 100,000 entries Simon Bloomberg Appleby’s Jim Matthews has been buying his petrol and “the occasional sneaky pie and sausage roll” from Waimea Motors for years, but this month he made a purchase that he will never forget. Jim, who owns the popular Richmond bike shop Village Cycles, won the top prize of $5000 cash in this year’s Shop ‘n’ Win promotion after buying petrol and filling out his entry form at Waimea Motors. Jim’s big win was also a bonus for Waimea Motors manager Barry Milne who received $2000 for submitting the winning entry. A record 98,000 entries were received for this year’s Shop ‘n Win promotion which was run by the Waimea Weekly and Richmond Mall, up on last year’s 75,000. Six weekly prizes of $500 of Richmond Mall vouchers were also handed out leading up to last Friday’s final draw for the top prize of $5000. “I’ve been buying petrol here forever and I must have put in half a dozen Shop ‘n’ Win entries here over the last month,” Jim says. “But I was really surprised to win - I think the only thing I’ve ever won like that was a $100 when I brought a raffle ticket off some kids and that was over 20 years ago.” Jim has been getting “plenty of suggestions from the boys at the shop” about how to spend the $5000, but says he and his wife Sue will probably put it towards their children’s education fund. However, Barry says he’ll be sharing
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Waimea Weekly publisher Steve Page, right, with Shop ‘n’ Win winners Barry Milne, left, and Jim Matthews at Waimea Motors on Monday. Photo: Simon Bloomberg. the $2000 with all his 12 staff “because they are the ones who did all the work” promoting the competition. He estimates that Waimea Motors’ customers filled in 800 to 1000 entries each week during the six-week promotion. Waimea Weekly publisher Steve Page says he’s delighted Jim won the prize.
“Jim and Sue have done so much for the community” through their own shop,” Steve says. The big prize was drawn under the at the Richmond police station last Friday and Waimea Weekly advertising manager Sue Davies says it signalled the end of their biggest Shop ‘n’ Win yet.
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“It’s been amazing and we’d like to thank all the retailers who took part and everyone who filled out an entry form. It will definitely be back next year, it’s just too big now to stop it!” All the shops in the Richmond Mall and 32 around Richmond participated in the promotion which was in its ninth year.
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