Save-On-Foods awards B.C. customer $1 million
Who: Save-On-Foods
What: The grocer has awarded one of its customers with $1 million.
Roy Lyster of New Westminster, B.C. is the winner of Save-On-Foods’ Million Dollar Touchdown to Win promotion.
Lyster won the grand prize during the July 4 game between the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Toronto Argonauts, when Janarion Grant of the Argonauts and Isaiah Wooden Sr. of the Tiger-Cats each returned a kick-off for a touchdown.
In the promotion, customers are automatically entered to win by shopping at any Save-On-Foods across Western Canada and scanning their More Rewards card. They receive a bonus entry for each participating product purchased.
The first kick-off returned for a touchdown wins a randomly selected shopper Groceries for a Year. But if the second kick-off is returned for a touchdown in the same game, it unlocks the $1 million grand prize.
This marks the first time Save-On-Foods has awarded the $1 million prize, to be paid in $50,000 annual installments over 20 years.
“We are absolutely thrilled to award Roy our first million-dollar prize as part of the Million Dollar Touchdown to Win promotion,” said Jamie Nelson, president of Save-On-Foods’ parent company the Pattison Food Group, in a press release. “Roy has been a dedicated customer for more than 15 years and is often the first customer of the day at his store. It is incredible to be able to give back to such a loyal customer, and we hope this prize enables Roy and Glenda, his wife of more than 50 years, and their family to make lots of great new memories.”
There is still one more $1 million prize available to be won.
Since Save-On-Foods took ownership of the Million Dollar Touchdown to Win promotion in 2019, 19 kickoffs had been returned for touchdowns until the July 4 game, and the company gave 19 lucky shoppers free Groceries for a Year.
In addition to kickoffs returned for touchdowns, Save-On-Foods awards a prize for every touchdown scored in CFL games throughout the regular season, playoffs and Grey Cup.
Lyster will officially accept his prize at an in-store event on July 11.
