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Statesboro Herald Grocery Grab 2016
Brooklet man grabs $1,000 worth of steak
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Stewart Bennett of Leefield gives a thumbs up with a full cart after winning the 3rd Annual Statesboro Herald Grocery Grab at Ken's IGA in Brooklet Saturday. Bennett, a regular customer at the store, headed straight for the meat section and filled his cart with $1,013.12 worth of beef in 60 seconds. Four other finalists (out of over 2,000 entries) won $50 gift certificates.
When he was selected as one of five finalists for the Statesboro Herald’s third annual Grocery Grab, Stewart Bennett had advantages from the start – he actually had won a similar event years earlier and as an almost daily customer of Ken’s IGA in Brooklet, he knew exactly how the meat, his target, was organized. And when his name was selected Saturday morning as the winner of the Herald’s 2016 Grocery Grab contest, Bennett said his focus became even sharper on what to do with his 60 seconds – nothing but steak. Bennett’s plan proved near perfect, as he piled $1,013.12 worth of meat to the top of his buggy and it was all varieties of steaks: ribeyes, New York strips, T-bones, sirloins and the big prize, whole tenderloins.
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