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NZ: Waimauku flower grower to travel world with $100,000 winnings

A cancer survivor is planning a world trip after winning $100,000 at New World Kumeu.

Waimauku flower grower Mary Flego has won the cash prize in a nationwide giveaway by New World supermarkets.

She says the $100,000 win feels like a turning point for herself and husband Steno who have both undergone treatment for cancer during the past three years.

"It feels like we've been through one thing after another so I had been thinking it would be really nice to have our luck change," Flego says.

"I'm on cloud nine- I keep thinking it can't be true.

"I've won a couple of odd things in the past, like a chicken in a raffle, but this is right off the scale!"

Flego is one of more than 100 customers nationwide drawn as winners in New World's Epic Prize Pool- $600,000 worth of prizes including cars, boats and luxury holidays.

A Waimauku resident of 37 years, Flego grows cut flowers for the local market and has shopped at New World Kumeu since the store's opening in 2014. "A million things go through your mind but I just keep thinking it would be lovely to go traveling. I've always wanted to do one of those cruises down the Rhine in Germany but it always seemed a little too expensive, too decadent."

She also wants to spend some of the money renovating and refurbishing the couple's home. "We feel so much freer to be able to spend on things we would usually hesitate to spend money on," she says. "When it comes to you in a sum like that, all sorts of things become possible."

The Epic Prize Pool ran from October 19 to November 8. Shoppers had to buy any three products from a range of participating brands and swipe their Fly Buys or New World Clubcard. "Thanks a million, New World," Flego says. "I just assumed there would be so many people entering that I was never going to be a winner. I'm so grateful I've been proven wrong."

Source: www.stuff.co.nz
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