Free Kroger Reusable Shopping Bag & Giveaway

Running through May 21, Kroger is inviting customers to visit their site where they can enter the 3rd Annual Kroger Reusable Shopping Bag Contest by designing their own reusable grocery bag with Kroger’s easy-to-use design tool. When you sign up and create a bag, Kroger will load a credit to your card for a free bag.

Upon submitting their entry, designers will receive a confirmation e-mail allowing them to view their final design and send to family and friends. Visitors to the site can vote on their favorite designs. The top 10 designs will be chosen by an expert panel and the grand prize winner will receive $1,000 and will have their bag design sold in stores. Four finalists will receive $250 Kroger gift cards and five runners-up will receive $100 Kroger gift cards. Every Shopper’s Card holder who submits a design will receive a credit for a free reusable shopping bag.

Additionally, they have partnered with Café Press so that after participants submit their design, they have the option of purchasing a reusable canvas bag with their design on it.

New this year, they have added the ability to create groups. Participants can now recruit friends to design a bag and be a part of a special group; a great feature for schools, churches, neighborhoods and more!

Here a screen shot of my bag design. It says “Use Me!" over and over again.

A variety of stores under the Kroger banner are participating in this contest.

Kroger
QFC
Fred Meyer
King Soopers
City Market
Fry’s
Dillons
Baker’s
Gerbes
Smith’s
Jay-C
Owen’s
PayLess
Highlander
Ralphs
About The Kroger Co.’s Green Efforts:

As one of America’s largest retailers, the Kroger Co. and its banner stores are committed to being responsible stewards of the environment. In 2009, Kroger and its family of stores sold an average of nearly 13,000 reusable shopping bags per day. They are installing LED lighting in more of their stores, which use up to 76 percent less energy than fluorescent bulbs. ThierSAVE 5 program trains associates to reduce energy consumption in our stores, plants, offices and distribution centers. In 2009, their first LEED certified store – a nationally recognized standard for sustainable buildings – opened in Oregon.

Would you like to win a $25 gift card? Here's how:

*Design a bag a leave a comment telling me what it looked like:
*Become a Fan of Copper Brick Road on Facebook
* Stumble my blog (Leave a comment saying you did so with Stumble user name)
* Subscribe to My Email Feed (leave a comment saying you did)
* Add this Giveaway to a Mr. Linky, Blog Carnival, Sweepstakes site, forum etc. (Leave the link) (1 entry per submission)
* Follow me on Twitter (@copperbrickroad) (leave a comment with your Twitter name)
* ReTweet this contest on Twitter (@copperbrickroad)(Once per day)
**Make sure to leave a separate comment for each entry to maximize chances of winning.**One winner will be selected randomly using Random.org. Contest ends 5/19 at 11:59 pm

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Kroger provided me with a $25 gift card from its One-Stop Gift Card Shop so that I could have my reusable bag design printed, as well as a gift card for one of my readers so they could do the same.
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