Estimates of over $1 Million spent during 2019 Shop Local Passport Program
Winners announced: Passport Draw
This year's Shop Local Passport Program finished on Jan. 2, 2020 with four big winners that were drawn from the completed passports on January 7, 2020.
1st Place = $1,000 McMurray Money – Paul Keats
2nd Place = $500 McMurray Money – Maureen Young
3rd Place = $250 McMurray Money – Amanda Martakoush
Bonus Prize – Four Day Getaway to Laughlin Nevada - Monique Carriere
McMurray Money can be spent at any of the participating businesses listed below. Shop Local Passports will be available at the participating businesses in the Shop Local Passport Program.
Special thanks to Mix 103.7 FM and 100.5 Cruz FM for supporting this community program.
- Approximately 12,000 passports were distributed between Nov. 12, and Dec. 24.
- Over 8,000 completed passports were collected for the draw on Jan. 7.
- Each completed passport = $100 in local spending.
- Based on completed passports, over $800,000 was spent in the community based on completed passports.
- However, we estimate over $1M spent in the community based on incomplete passports or passports that weren’t submitted before the deadline of January 6, 2020. This also factors in that a maximum of four complete passports could be submitted for one purchase (i.e., purchases over $400 would max out at four passports, including vendors of bigger ticket items).
- The 2018 program recorded a total spend of $445,000.
- 62 businesses participated in the 2019 program, more than twice as many businesses that participated in 2018.
- 24 businesses participated in the 2018 program.
- 1st Place = $1,000 McMurray Money
- 2nd Place = $500 McMurray Money
- 3rd Place = $250 McMurray Money
- Bonus Prize – Four Day Getaway to Laughlin Nevada (Courtesy of the Economic Development Corporation and Fort McMurray International Airport.
- The entire Peter Pond Mall is accepting McMurray Money, which is the prize for those whose passports were drawn for the contest.
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