74 Winners So Far, Only 2 More Days to Go!

Seventy-four.

With only two days remaining in this season's Shop the Village campaign, that's the number of winners thus far who have received gift cards or certificates from a variety of participating businesses. Each of the gifts is a minimum $25 value, meaning the overall largesse from local merchants is approaching $2,000.

Triple S shrugged off the snow this evening and trekked along Oak Park Avenue from Lake Street to North Boulevard (along The Avenue Business District), making it a hotbed of customer-rewarding activity. By the time his work was done, 16 more winners had been chosen to bring the campaign tally to 74.

The first stop came at Red Hen Bread, where a young man's purchase of an Izzi beverage prompted Super Shopper Spotter to award a $25 gift card to Ten Thousand Villages in Downtown Oak Park.

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On his journey, Triple S also descended on an Oak Park company's holiday party at top restaurant Cucina Paradiso--four of the roughly dozen in the party were randomly selected.

Enjoy some of the celebratory photos that came at Caribou Coffee, Anana's, Avenue Nail Spa and Cucina Paradiso (one of the strongest contributors to the Shop the Village campaign, with five gift card donations.

In addition to the aforementioned Ten Thousand Villages, donors whose gift certificates were bestowed tonight were:

Pioneer Press (one-year subscriptions to any of the weekly newspaper chain's publications);

Downtown Oak Park (the gift of choosing from a variety of DTOP merchants--the organization has generously provided 10 certificates in support of the Shop the Village campaign); and

Bead in Hand, a mainstay of the Arts District.

Even with all the outpouring to date, Super Shopper Spotter still has enough gift cards for at least one more shopper-rewarding excursion between now and Christmas Eve.

So if you see him strolling about and have anything at all on your shopping list, you may be in line to become the next Super Shopper that's spotted.