Games/ Contests/ Sweepstakes

LOS ANGELES -- Just in time for the peak summer salad season, Sunkist Almond Accents is offering its "Barcelona Culinary Escape" contest and sweepstakes with grand prizes for both retailers and shoppers: an epicurean adventure for two to Barcelona, Spain.

SUNBURY, Pa. -- Weis Markets here and Lititz, Pa.-based Sauder's Egg Co. will host two-time Olympic gold medalist Kristine Lilly during a visit to Central Pennsylvania next week.

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association's (NFRA) fifth annual ice cream & novelties promotion is ready to hit the frozen aisles this June and July.

STOCKTON, Calif. -- Shoppers at new Grocery Outlet here will be burning away fat on their new George Foreman Grills, which will be given away to the first 100 customers in a grand opening promotion that begins April 1.

OMAHA -- For the second consecutive year, ConAgra Foods here is sponsoring the World's Championship Chili Cookoff -- bringing the event to ConAgra's headquarters on Oct. 6-8, 2006. Thousands of cooks will compete at the Cookoff to create a "super bowl" of chili, with up to $30,000 in prize money up for grabs.

COMMERCE, Calif. -- Going the whole 99 yards, so to speak, extreme value retailer 99 cents stores is celebrating its 999th day in Texas by selling the Apple 2-gigabyte iPod Nano for only 99 cents to the first 9 customers at its 11 Dallas/Ft. Worth area stores March 24.

SCHENECTADY, NY -- Price Chopper Supermarkets here is marking its 10th anniversary in Connecticut by throwing two-week parties at its locations in the Nutmeg State. Storewide anniversary festivities, which began yesterday, include customer appreciation coupons; contests; prizes; activities for the kids, such as free press-on tattoos and balloons; and finger foods from stores' pizza, deli and specialty, stations.

ATLANTA -- Coca-Cola North America yesterday launched My Coke Rewards, a multi-year, online driven, mega-rewards program across all Coca-Cola brands.