Price Chopper Associate Wins NY State Best Bagger Competition

Competition Aired Today on RACHAEL RAY

SCHENECTADY, NY (11/14/2008)(readMedia)--

Price Chopper Supermarkets is honored to announce one of its associates, Vanessa Marrs, from their Pittsfield, MA. store won this year's New York State Best Bagger Competition.

The event was taped last week in New York City for the RACHAEL RAY show which aired the segment today. Price Chopper has competed in this competition for the last five years and has sent four out of the five competitors to the National competition in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Along with Vanessa's trip to Nationals as the New York State representative, she won $250.

Based in Schenectady, NY, the Golub Corporation owns and operates over 100 Price Chopper grocery stores in New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The family-owned company prides itself on longstanding traditions of innovative food merchandising, leadership in community service, and cooperative employee relations. Golub's approximately 24,000 associates collectively own 51% of the company's privately held stock. For additional information, visit www.pricechopper.com.

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