Kroger offers 10% Bang for Your Economic Stimulus Buck

As a follow-up to this morning’s post about offers put forth by Sears and Kroger, I have good news.  Kroger will not only accom­mo­date those of us who expect to receive their stim­u­lus as a direct deposit rather than as a phys­i­cal check, they’re going to make par­tic­i­pa­tion eas­ier and less com­pli­cated than Sears.

Here’s the email response I received from Kroger Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions con­tact Meghan Glynn:

Hi Eliz­a­beth,
     Cus­tomers who do not have a hard copy of their government-issued checks may still take advan­tage of this offer with cash, a credit card or by pre­sent­ing a valid per­sonal check to the Cus­tomer Ser­vice cen­ter. Kroger Gift cards do not expire.  Bonus amounts can­not be used toward the pur­chase of alco­hol, lot­tery tick­ets, phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals or tobacco products.

     Amounts that dif­fer from those out­lined above will be turned into gift cards in $300.00, $600.00 or $1,200.00 incre­ments with the bonus amounts added on and the remain­der returned to the cus­tomer.  For exam­ple, if a cus­tomer has a tax refund or stim­u­lus check of $415.50, the cus­tomer will receive a Kroger gift card val­ued at $330.00 and the remain­ing $115.50 will be returned to the customer.

My inter­pre­ta­tion of Meghan’s reply is that once the pro­gram offi­cially starts on May 2, 2008, any­one wish­ing to par­tic­i­pate can pur­chase either $300, $600, or $1,200 worth of Kroger gift cards and receive a card valu­ing either $330, $660, or $1,320.   Appar­ently no proof of their actual stim­u­lus check will be required.

I sup­pose that some of the fine print will put off a cou­ple of peo­ple con­sid­er­ing Kroger’s deal but it cer­tainly won’t affect us.  In addi­tion to the exclu­sions Meghan listed above — alco­hol, tobacco, lot­tery tick­ets (of which we don’t par­take) and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals (which we do buy on occa­sion) — the pro­gram, which runs only through July 31, 2008, “is lim­ited to one offer per house­hold with a limit of $1,200.00.”

I haven’t dis­cussed this lat­est devel­op­ment with The Hus­band yet but I can’t imag­ine he’ll object to earn­ing a quick and easy 10% bonus on his gro­cery money.  Stay tuned and I’m sure you’ll hear more about what we decide to do with our gov­ern­ment stim­u­lus check.

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