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Posted on 05.29.2009
We want to share yet another exciting opportunity for you to help this ministry, particularly with our monthly shortfalls. If you are a Kroger shopper (or shop at any of the Kroger affiliated stores listed below) you can easily provide us with significant financial support simply by taking a few extra minutes when you shop. It won’t cost you anything extra, but TSC will benefit from your family’s grocery purchases. We would greatly appreciate your participation if you live in an area where any of these stores are located. Please also help us by sharing this information with neighbors, friends, and family members, even those in other parts of the country.
The Neighborhood Reward Program will begin with TSC purchasing a certain number of gift cards from Kroger; that number will be determined by how many express interest in the program. Each card will be preloaded with a balance, most likely either $1 or $5. Participants would purchase a card from TSC for the amount of the card’s balance. (We cannot simply give the cards for free because we are prohibited by law from distributing gifts if those gifts would help us in some way to raise funds.) Then, when shopping at Kroger or a Kroger-affiliated store, participants would reload the card at the cash register before checking out. Each card can hold a maximum of $250 at any one time. Participants then pay for their groceries with the Neighborhood Reward gift card. The card may be reloaded and used indefinitely. If a participating family regularly spends more than $250 on one trip to the grocery store, then it might be advisable to purchase more than one card, to facilitate paying the full grocery bill each time. The benefit to TSC occurs when a minimum of $5,000 total is loaded on all of the gift cards (all of the cards purchased from TSC, not on any one card): a donation equal to 4% of the money put on the cards will be given to TSC by Kroger, so long as we have a total of at least $5,000 loaded onto the cards during each four-week cycle. If for some reason that $5,000 threshold isn’t reached within four weeks, the balance that is there will be rolled over to the next four-week cycle, so nothing would be lost. Note that the 4% given to TSC is not taken from the money that participants put on their gift cards. When the card is reloaded with, for example, $200, then every bit of that $200 is available to the participant for purchases.
Here is the list of stores affiliated with Kroger at which this Neighborhood Reward Program will work:
Fred Meyer
Ralph’s
Fry’s & Fry’s Marketplace
King Soopers
Dillons
Smith’s Food & Drug
City Market
QFC
Food 4 Less
Owen’s
FoodsCo.
Hilander
Pay-Less
Cala-Bell
Baker’s
JayC
Fred Meyer Jewelers
Littman & Barclay Jewelers
For more information on this program or to request one or more cards, please click here and state that you would like more information about the Kroger Neighborhood Reward program.