This just in from Target: They’re now rewarding you for walking in their doors
Running errands just got a whole lot more lucrative.
This morning, Target let us know they are now rewarding all of us just for walking in their doors. How? They’re partnered with a company called shopkick (it’s a free mobile app that you can get on your iPhone or Android). Once you have the app on your phone, each time you walk into any Target store and open the app, you are rewarded with points (or “kicks” as they’re called).
Here’s how it works: download the free app, and open it as you walk in to any Target. Shopkick’s location-based technology recognizes that you’ve arrived, and greets you with a gift: kicks, which show up instantly on your phone.
Once you hit a set number of kicks, you can redeem them for awesome rewards (like Target gift cards!) right on your phone.
Then, you can keep racking up the kicks by using your phone to scan specific product barcodes inside the store. Along the way, the app offers coupons, discounts and other rewards.
A fun diagram showing how it works, plus more background on the app can be found here, on Target’s online mag, A Bullseye View:http://abullseyeview.com/
In celebration of launch, Target is hosting a nationwide launch party, offering you 300 kicks when you walk in today. The party will continue next week with 200-kick walk-ins Friday through Monday.
shopkick is also celebrating with their “Smile and Say ‘Nationwide!”” campaign—all you have to do is take a crazy picture of yourself at your favorite Target store, and send it to shopkick at contest@shopkick.com for a chance to win 2500 kicks!! There will be a winner every hour from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. PDT Wednesday May 23rd.
The moral of the story?
We already had to pick up those light bulbs and a few graduation cards (and maybe try on that that new dress?) – may as well get rewarded for it.


Buy 2 Eucerin lotion and 1 Nivea lotion at Target for $6.99 each – total $20.97






















