(QUINCY MA) – The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company/Giant Food LLC will kick off the Triple Winner Game, a program designed to raise $6 million for the Jimmy Fund, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and the Children’s Cancer Foundation. The 2005 Triple Winner Game will raise $6 million to help fight childhood cancer in Stop & Shop and Giant’s operating states.

“We are proud of our long-standing commitment to the fight against childhood cancer,” said Stop & Shop/Giant President and CEO Marc Smith. “We are all impacted when a young child is diagnosed with cancer. Through Triple Winner, our associates, customers and suppliers have raised more than $28 million to directly support cancer research and care for children.”

This is the 15^th year Stop & Shop has run the Triple Winner Game and the first for Giant Food. The two chains integrated their main offices and systems in 2004.

The Triple Winner Game is a scratch card promotion in which every ticket is an instant winner of either a free product, a gift card or cash prize up to $10,000. The program, which runs from April 17 to July 2, 2005, allows customers who make a $1 donation in any Stop & Shop or Giant store to receive a Triple Winner Game ticket.

All money raised from Stop & Shop stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire will directly benefit the Jimmy Fund and the Stop & Shop Pediatric Brain Tumor Clinic. Sales from Stop & Shop stores in New York and New Jersey will benefit Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. All sales from Triple Winner tickets in Giant stores will go towards the Children’s Cancer Foundation.

The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company, based in Quincy, Massachusetts, employs more than 58,000 associates and operates 358 stores throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York and New Jersey.