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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.

2. Add Deal Seeking Mom to your blogroll or add my badge to your sidebar. Make sure to come back and leave the link to your site in a separate comment!

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. alliegator

    I have a hard time remembering them. I try to keep them in my car, but even then, sometimes I forget to bring them into the store. Putting them right next to the driver seat has helped.

    Last week at our kroger, I got a 5 cent per bag refund for using my bags!

  4. Cathi Yospe

    I keep them in the car, but always forget to take them in. Really it shouldn’t be that hard, they are sitting right by my son who I have to get out of the car. I need some great ideas to help me remember them.

  5. Diana Moore

    I love these bags, I take them everywhere. Especially when I go the flea market. I have a really big Steelers one, it is my favorite.

  11. FreebieAddict

    I don’t use the reusable shopping bags because they are usually just too small to fit everything I need!

  12. DomesticAcademic

    I think the biggest reason I don’t use reusable bags much now is pretty much the same as everyone elses… I need more hands! When I go shopping I have my six month old daughter with me – I wear her in a sling, as she doesn’t like to sit in the card – and between juggling her, unloading the groceries from the cart to the counter, pulling out my coupons/store card/credit card, and trying to watch that everything rings up right… even if the bag makes it into the store with me, it doesn’t always make it into the hands of the bagger!

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  13. Charity

    I absolutely love reusable bags. They don’t waste all of the plastic bags, so much more fits in them, they are so much sturdier and they are easier to carry. The only problem that I have is remembering to bring them along. One of the things that has helped is that I keep them in the trunk of my car. I also love that Kroger gives a credit for each bag that you use!

  14. Christy

    I subscribe in my google reader. My biggest issue with using bags is that I forget to bring them in the store with me. I would love to have a credit for using them, I would for sure make a bigger effort to use them.

    Christy´s last blog post..If the creek dont rise

  15. Mandy

    I have a really hard time remembering them, I have them hanging on a hook next to the door, but with a new baby, my brain is mush!!

  16. Ali

    The hardest thing for me is what to do with ‘leaky’ items like meats. If I put them in a reusable bag and they leak, that just gets yucky and adds to my laundry. Or refrigerated items that sweat all over the place. I try to keep a bag of bags in my car and I even have a small one tucked in my purse to help me remember.

  17. Carrie

    I just have a hard time remembering them. I love using them because they hold so much more than plastic bags, and two of the stores in my area give $.05/bag credit. A lot of times when I bring them in the house full of groceries I forget to take them back out to my car for next time. I’m getting better, though! It’s just a matter of making it part of my routine.

  18. Katie

    I have trouble remembering them. I got my free one from Kroger just yesterday, and I found out my Target gives you 5 cents off your total for every reusable bag you use!

  21. Jennifer

    Hands down the biggest barrier to using my reusable bags is remembering to bring them! I love using them though – so much easier to carry than plastic.

  22. Cheryl W

    Remembering to take them.And even when I do rememeber to take them,if I find alot of great deals…I run out of bags to use!lol

    Thanks for the contest,awesome prize

  23. Becki S

    Although I do have a hard time remembering to bring the bags sometimes, my biggest problem with them is when I go through the self-checkout lane. I almost always go through the self-checkout lanes since they have shorter lines. Unfortunately, I can’t just plop the bags in the bagging area and start my order. Since the bagging area has a scale, it asks me to remove the last item and scan it if I just put the bag down. I have to scan an item and put it down inside the bag to get the system to work. Also, on the bag carosel, it’s kind of difficult to squish the recycleable bags inside the area for the t-shirt bag holders, and it’s just too far to quickly scan and bag items if I put the bags on the large item shelf after the bag carousel.

  24. Shannon

    This was fun, thanks for sharing! I actually really like the bag I designed. :) Honestly, I’m running out of barriers for using these bags. Yes, I’m afraid I’ll forget to bring them in, but that will become a habit if I just start doing it, LOL! There are so many more pros than cons lately…

  28. Michelle

    My problem with using reusable bags is that I actually NEED the plastic ones around the house. I use them for our recycling garbage, and most importantly, for DIRTY DIAPERS that I don’t want to stink up my house. I use my reusable bags when I’ve got a good supply of plastic ones.

  30. Sarah Anderson

    I use resuable shopping bags for other things- lugging things to work and family events. I have a hard time making the switch for shopping because I “need” those paper and plastic bags. I use paper bags to bag up my recycling. I buy mutiple Sunday papers when there are good coupons so there’s a few right there. I also use paper bags to bag up food and clothing donations. Plastic bags are always good for the diaper bag because I can bag up any offensive dirty diapers before disposing them at a family member’s home. I also use the plastic ones to clean out the litter pan and since I like to do that at least every other day that’s a lot of plastic bags.