Catherine Strohmeyer is not a gambler. The Escalon resident described she and her husband Stan as “not very lucky.”
Yet the retired couple recently learned that even the “unlucky” can happen upon good fortune as Strohmeyer was named the Grand Prize winner of Save Mart and Lucky stores’ Chase the Savings Sweepstakes. The top prize earned the couple a total of $35,000.
“We’ve shopped at Save Mart for years,” she said of frequenting the Oakdale Save Mart.
As a regular shopper, Strohmeyer was familiar with the game but focused more on the dollar savings for spending than the sweepstakes drawing.
“I usually concentrate on those,” she said of the money savings for so much spent, noting numbers on the tickets which can be registered on line for entry into the sweepstakes.
“That’s how it came about I guess,” she said of the roughly 10 numbers she entered. “Somehow I got the lucky number that was picked.”
And as luck would have it, in the case of the Strohmeyer’s they were just amidst the planning of new kitchen counters for their home when she received the unexpected call.
“It was happy news,” the winner said of receiving the call, as she and her husband had come in from their 10-acre ranch to have some lunch.
“It took me by surprise, but of course these days you kind of figure is it a scam or something,” she continued. “It was just kind of hard to believe. This kind of stuff doesn’t happen very often.”
However, for them it did happen and while the kitchen cabinets were already in the plan, the little extra cash was not at all a bad thing.
“I was already going to go ahead and order them, but this just offsets anything I was going to have to spend,” Strohmeyer said, admitting that now she may consider doing the floors as well.
“We are excited to present this $35,000 Grand Prize to a longtime and proud Save Mart shopper,” Donovan Ford, Senior Vice President and COO at The Save Mart Companies said via a press release. “This annual sweepstakes provides an opportunity to reward our shoppers with additional savings and bonus prizes on top of the cost-saving meal solutions our stores provide every day.”
As for the remainder of her winnings, not needed for the ongoing kitchen renovations, the retired American Ag Credit worker shared it’s safe in the bank.
“I suppose now he’s happy he’s married to me, because he gets the benefit too. It’s a joint account,” she said of her husband Stan with a chuckle. “It’s good to have that little nest again, in case something happens.”
