Cape May County ShopRite Employees Grace Special Edition Cheerios Boxes

A total of four employees at two ShopRite stores in Cape May County had their efforts to fight hunger by being memorialized on boxes of Cheerios.

Pier DeRiggi, of Marmora, and Samantha Lepor, of Ocean View, are both employees at the Marmora ShopRite.

Jennifer Ashbridge, of the Villas, and Beverly Nixon, of Woodbine, are both employees at the ShopRite in Rio Grande.

All four have their faces on a total of 300,000 special edition boxes of Cheerios. Each store gets 150,000 limited edition boxes that were revealed during special ceremonies earlier this week.

There were a total of 40 winning stores, as the chain supermarket raised a total of $1.4 million during ShopRite Partners In Caring’s annual Cheerios contest. Each store won the chance to put two employees on a special edition Cheerios box.

Each winning store will also receive prize money ($3,000 for the top five stores, and $500 for the remaining winning stores).

“The ShopRite associates featured on this year’s Cheerios box are passionate about fighting hunger and helping people in need in the communities where our ShopRite stores operate. And our associates know that working together as a team to raise money and awareness is the most effective way to make a difference,” said Christine Magyarits, spokesperson for ShopRite Partners In Caring. “Since 1999, $43 million has been donated to local food banks through the ShopRite Partners In Caring program. The Cheerios contest is one of our favorite annual events and highlights our ‘partners’ in the fight against hunger, including our dedicated ShopRite associates, our generous customers, and General Mills, a longtime vendor partner who shares our passion for helping those in need of food assistance."

Since 1999, ShopRite Partners In Caring has raised more than $43 million to help feed the hungry in the communities ShopRite serves.

The attached images from the events were provided by ShopRite. The first image is from the Rio Grande event, and the second is from Marmora.