Whanganui woman races through store in two-minute toy grab

Marianne Cavanagh snared well over $2000 worth of toys in two minutes at Farmers toy grab.

It was Christmas shopping in record-breaking time.

Whanganui woman Marianne Cavanagh had two minutes to grab as much as she could from the toy section at Farmers as she took part in the toy grab on Wednesday morning.

She was one of two in the country to win a prize as part of Farmers Club's countdown to summer competition.

She could not grab more than one of the same exact item, more than 50 per cent from the same toy category and the haul was limited to $2000 worth - but other than that it was a free-for-all.

"Their Christmas is sorted along with the rest of our family," Marianne said.

"My kids don't know so I'm going to have to hide the paper from them."

She said she would also donate a lot of it to Women's Refuge.

Marianne said she went to check the lay of the land and eye up what she wanted the day before.

"Then it kind of all went out the window when they all started yelling and the clock was ticking."

She ended up hitting the $2000 easily.

"It was quite amazing. I thought it was a spam call when I first got it."