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2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
Shopping is an integral part of the life of a modern person. We put into this concept not only wandering around the shops, but also the absolutely necessary daily trips for groceries.
Today Lifehacker will tell you how to supplement this habitual business with getting quite material buns for free and without any significant effort.
The bottom line is simple: we put the ShopPoints application on our iPhone - it is free and strongly resembles a Foursquare-style check-in, but for checks the user does not receive meaningless statuses, but real and really useful nishtyaks (replenishment of the balance on a mobile, gift cards in various store chains, household / mobile technique and so on).
Immediately about the sad
At the moment ShopPoints works only in Moscow and nowhere else. We contacted the developers to clarify the likelihood of support for other cities in the foreseeable future. The plans are to launch the service in St. Petersburg, but only by the spring of next year. In general, so far only Muscovites can use it.
How does it work
We receive points that can be exchanged for gifts. Points are earned in several ways, including those that do not require moving as such.
For example, launching an application for 5 consecutive days = 200 points. The main way to earn points is by visiting stores (100 points per check-in), as well as scanning the barcodes of eligible products within those stores (varies greatly from store to store and from product to product).
At the initial stage, it is worth spending some time studying the list of stores that cooperate with ShopPoints, as well as evaluating the product catalog - they periodically come across slides with free points.
Periodic browsing of catalogs also helps to find an interesting product at a tempting price, which is useful in itself.
Present
Actually, let's move on to sweets, that is, to gifts. The beauty is that to receive small bonuses, you need very few points, but for more serious things, like the Kindle reader, of course, you have to save up gift, tap the "save" icon).
If we consider the application solely as a companion when making purchases, then the gradual and unconstrained accumulation of points will harmoniously fit into the usual shopping process. However, if some people are not too lazy to check into the same Foursquare over and over again in the struggle for virtual mayorship, so why not try to do similar things with quite tangible benefits? Suddenly it will take root.
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