Shopkick 2.0 Released

Creators are experiencing an overwhelming response to the long-awaited Shopkick 2.0. The new version offers many new features for the users.

The creators posted this on their Facebook page:

“Crazy response level. Shopkick 2.0 has just launched the response is overwhelming us… and unfortunately our servers, too ! We’re taking a moment to adjust to the crazy level of activity and will be back in full shopkicking force soon! Please hold on and check back later. What a day here – this is more response to 2.0 than we ever anticipated.”

Hey Shopkickers! You have been asking us for more ways to collect kicks and we have been working hard to make that happen. Today we are VERY excited to introduce ‘kickbuys’!

‘Kickbuys” is a NEW way for you to earn hundreds of kicks for BUYING featured products for a limited time only @ Target – currently rolled out to select Targets in NYC, LA, SF, Chicago, Dallas, Miami and Minneapolis. Check it out today and you’ll also get k240 for just walking in!

LIKE this post if you’re excited about the feature and can’t wait till it hits your market too!

Crate&Barrel launches walk-in rewards NATIONALLY! To celebrate, get k300 for walking in today & tomorrow at Crate&Barrel stores in America. LIKE this post if you like walk-ins available nationwide at our partner stores.

Crate & Barrel is a 170+ store chain of American retail stores, based in Northbrook, Illinois, specializing in housewares, furniture (indoor and out), and home accessories. Its corporate name is Euromarket Designs, Inc. and it is majority-owned by Otto GmbH.

Founding
a poster circa 1960 depicting Crate and Barrel (in the center of the image) in Old Town, Chicago.

Gordon and Carole Segal opened the first Crate and Barrel store on December 7 1962, at age 23. The 1,700-square-foot (160 m2) space in part of an old elevator factory was located on Wells Street in the then-bohemian Old Town neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The inspiration was their honeymoon in Europe, where the Segals became interested in providing functional yet aesthetically pleasing products to young couples just starting out. Surprised to see that Europe had many beautiful and durable products at reasonable prices, they were inspired to start their own store in the United States.

The first store opened in response to a flourishing of world trade in home furnishings due to the early 1960s round of talks about the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The Segals sought out small European companies that were not represented in America and negotiated direct purchases from these factories that could be sold to the consumer while avoiding a wholesaler’s markup. To this day, a majority of Crate & Barrel’s products are direct imports from Europe, though Thai, Mexican and Indian glass and textiles can also be found in their stores.

The Segals derived the company name by the materials that they originally used to display items in their Chicago store. The Segals were originally going to call their company “Barrel and Crate”, but a friend suggested that they reverse the order of the words.[citation needed] They turned over the crates and barrels that the merchandise came in, let the wood excelsior spew out, and stacked up the china and glass. This helped emphasize their strongest selling point, that their products were direct imports.

In 1966, Segal and the designer Lon Habkirk visited the Design Research store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which had an “enormous influence” on their retailing approach. Habkirk later remarked: “Eventually we took the whole idea and translated it into a reproducible formula.

Growth

In 1968, the Segals opened their second store in the Plaza del Lago shopping center in suburban Wilmette, Illinois, and third in Oak Brook, Illinois in 1971. Its first store outside the Chicago area opened in Boston in 1977. In 1979, it opened its second Cambridge, Massachusetts store in the building designed for the recently-closed Design Research, which they had so admired.

By 1985, the chain had grown to 17 stores, and has continued to grow. In March 1995, it opened its first New York location (its 58th location), in Manhattan. After selling a majority stake to German mail order company the Otto Group in 1998, the company had financing to increase its rate of expansion. By 2002, it had grown to approximately 100 locations, and over 135 locations by late 2004.

Today there are over 170 stores in the United States.

International expansion

In September 2008, Crate and Barrel opened its first location outside the United States, at Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto, Canada. A new two story 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) building, similar to other newly opened stores in the U.S., was constructed. Future international expansion in Canada and possibly other countries is also reportedly planned. A second Canadian store, in Calgary, opened in October 2009. A third Canadian store opened in Mississauga, Ontario, on October 28, 2010, at Square One Shopping Centre. The next Canadian store is expected to open in the fall of 2011 in Edmonton, Alberta at Southgate Shopping Centre.

In the fall of 2009, the company reported plans to open two stores in Dubai in 2010 via a franchise agreement with Al Tayer Group.

Crate&Barrel launches walk-in rewards NATIONALLY! To celebrate, get k300 for walking in today & tomorrow at Crate&Barrel stores in America. LIKE this post if you like walk-ins available nationwide at our partner stores

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Shop Kick Bar Code Scans

We have dedicated this web site to the development and advancement of the Shop Kick app. We wish to enhance the experience for fellow Shop Kick app users. The ShopKick is not only a great tool to save money and experience great shopping deals, but a tool that can benefit charities and worthy causes that effect our everyday life. We hope that you find this web site to be a handy tool when trying to help your charities and get great deals.

Many of us that use Shop Kick do so to help charities and get great deals.  This site is a reference to check bar code scans for the scans that don’t function properly.  Also, this is a great reference for scans for items that are not carried by stores, or scans of items that have been sold out at the stores you try to scan them.

 
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