Shopkick is a phone app that gives you points for buying, scanning, or even just walking into a store. Just search and download for kickbucks. The following excerpt is from an article on TechCrunch:
After announcing a partnership with Best Buy a few months ago, Shopkick is debuting a new implementation
of its geo-coupon system at Target today. Users can now unlock coupons via Shopkick’s app in 242 stores in the Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York City, and San Francisco/Silicon Valley markets.
Instead of checking in, as you would with a geo app like Foursquare or Gowalla, shopkick automatically recognizes when someone with the free shopkick app on their phone walks into a store. When guests enter a participating Target store, they will receive points, called “kickbucks.” Guests also can scan select product barcodes in-store to earn additional “kickbucks.”
You can then use “kickbucks” to redeem Target GiftCards. Users of the app will also receive instant scannable mobile coupons just for entering Target (the coupons can be scanned and redeemed at checkout). The retailers says that offers will be extended to a variety of products, including food, cleaning supplies, electronics and toys.
Target joined today, which really sucks because I cannot download the app to my iPhone because I am using a jailbroke iPhone on TMobile and can’t upgrade to a newer version (currently running 3.0.1) without totally screwing things up.
If anyone has any suggestions for me on the iPhone issue (note that getting a Google phone or switching to AT&T is not an option), please email me from the contact me tab.