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Go Green with Kroger Giveaway: $25 Gift Cards

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Win a $25 Kroger Gift CardLooking for another green freebie? Well, look no further. Kroger wants to give you a reusable shopping bag just for entering their reusable shopping bag contest. All you have to do is design your own reusable shopping tote, and they’ll credit your Kroger card for the cost of one of their bags.

Even better? When you submit your design, others will have the opportunity to vote for their favorite design. Great prizes will be awarded to the top 10 bag designs, with one lucky designer winning a $1,000 Kroger gift card and the chance for their bag design to be sold in stores. Judges will also select four finalists who will receive $250 Kroger gift cards and five runners-up who will receive $100 Kroger gift cards!

How’s that for an incentive to go green? And yes, that’s my not-so-creative bag pictured above.

Need another incentive?

Kroger has generously given me two $25 gift cards to pass on to two lucky winners to help draw attention to their green efforts. I hope you’ll all take a minute to create a bag and submit your design!

How can you win?

Share your biggest barrier to using reusable shopping totes. Is it hard to remember them? Do you have difficulties bagging your items? Would a small credit for using them be an incentive? Can you think of any ways to solve the issue? I’m just interested in your thoughts on the whole issue.

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Every reader has three methods available to enter this contest. Choose one each of any combination of method one, two, or three for up to a total of 3 entries!!!

Methods of entry:

1. Leave a comment. Tell me what your biggest barrier to using reusable shopping totes.

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3. Subscribe to my feed via RSS or email. You must confirm your email subscription for it to be a valid entry! Leave a separate comment letting me know you have done so. If you’re already a subscriber, simply leave a separate comment letting me know you’re already subscribed. Lovin’ my subscribers! You guys make this all possible.

Prize:
(2) $25 Kroger Gift Cards

This giveaway ends at 11:59 p.m. EST on Saturday, April 18th. I’ll use Random.org to select the winning comment. Winner will be notified by email on Sunday, April 19th and listed on my Giveaway Winners page. Good luck!

While you’re in a contest entering mood, don’t forget to check out the Giveaway Gathering for a variety of contests being hosted on Deal Seeking Mom readers’ blogs!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Tammy G.

    Great giveaway! My biggest barrier to using reusable shopping totes is me forgetting them in my car and not realizing it until I go to checkout :-)

  3. Elena

    My biggest barrier to using my totes are leaving them on my counter and not noticing until i’m already at the store.

  4. Katie

    My biggest barrier to using the totes is simply remembering them! Remembering my shopping list, coupons, and wallet is difficult enough with my a newborn and a two year old.

  8. Ruthie

    Hi
    My biggest barrier is forgetting them at home or in my car. Also at the Fry’s Market in AZ they give you a $0.10 cent credit for every reuseable bag that you use.

  10. April

    I gotta be honest. My biggest barrier isn’t forgetting my bags – it’s putting them in the trunk of my car so I have them while I’m out shopping! I pick up cute reusable totes, and make some of my own, but often have to take them out for larger item purchases from time to time. It doesn’t hit until I’m out running errands that I could really use my bags.

    It also doesn’t help that they’re really fantastic for other things, too. Packing a lunch, using as an overnighter bag, keeping items for classroom parties together… they’re really wonderful, inexpensive bags. I don’t mind at all having a store’s name and logo on the bag. I even drag them with me to the library!

    And here I am, preparing myself to have my husband and son remind me to put the bags in the car. They can help me create a design, too!

  11. Heather

    My biggest barrier, is when I am shopping I usually have my newborn triplets with me. Therefore, the totes are an extra thing for me to carry in, when I usually am so occupied trying to get everyone loaded in and out of the vehicle, who has time to think about bags. I guess I could throw them in my diaper bad as long as my dh doesnt throw them out when he is in it.

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  12. Sharon

    My biggest barrier is remembering to put them back in the car after I empty them!
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  14. Shawn

    I usually forget to bring my reusable bags, but on the occassion that I do remember, they just seem to be in the way when I’m grocery shopping. I need to leave the cart part of the buggy clear for the groceries, then I have my enourmous coupon binder, my purse, & heaven forbid I have one of my children with me! It seems so much easiser to not deal with it. BUT, I’m trying to do my part to save our earth, sooo I will continue to fumble around w/ my reusable bags…when I can remember them.

  18. Dawn

    I agree with everyone who says they forget them. Yesterday I took my reusable bag to Target and forgot I had it until I went to pay and then I saw it but of course the cashier had already bagged my items. :(

  19. Cassandra B.

    Remembering to take my bags. After I unload them in the house, I forget to put them back in the car.

  20. Laura C

    I am getting better about taking them into the store with me, but still they end up at the bottom of the cart and while I’m unloading, the cashier has already started ringing and loading into plastic. Using them all the time is still a work in progress.

  24. kim

    I think we all have the same issue with using the green bags! I never remember to either take them at all or take them out of the van… lol

  26. Sarah

    My biggest barrier in using reusable shopping totes is filling them at the check-out. There is no easy way when you have lots of groceries. I’m all thumbs!