Shop Your Way Rewards (Sears and Kmart Rewards Program) Review
The latest major retailer to start their own non-credit card-based rewards program is Sears/Kmart, who launched Shop Your Way Rewards yesterday. It’s free to join, and you can sign up online at ShopYourWayRewards.com.
Here are the benefits:
- Returns without a receipt on purchases at Kmart and Sears.
- 1% of your purchases at Kmart, Sears, and mygofer.com will be refunded in the form of store credit to your loyalty card (“available within weeks of earning” — not very clear).
- Chance to get a Kmart K’Ching Surprise (random gifts awarded on your register receipt after swiping your card in-store at Kmart while making a purchase).
- Special offers tailored to you based on your purchases and your answers to the More About Me questionnaire on the site. (I was offered triple rewards on footwear at Sears and Kmart, 5% back on furniture and outerwear at Kmart, and some other various double rewards offers.)
- Combinable with Craftsman Club and KidVantage benefits, and with coupons and other special offers.
While you will be issued a physical card, you don’t have to carry it around with you to get credit for shopping — you can provide your phone number to the cashier at checkout, and you can store your card number in your shopping profile at Sears.com and Kmart.com.
The program is open to residents of the US and Puerto Rico who are 18 or older. Multiple accounts per household are allowed if members have unique email addresses.
You can’t earn for purchases of gift cards, Sears Parts Direct, the portrait studio, and a few other items like tobacco, firearms, and postage. See the terms for full details.
The full details on Kmart K’Ching Surprises are here. Prizes range from $0.99 travel size deodorant to $2.99 body lotion to $200 Sony Blu-ray Players, all the way up to a grand prize of a GE Home Appliance Makeover valued at $5,000.
My take:
1% isn’t a heckuva lot, but with the special bonuses (double rewards, 5% rewards on certain items) it can add up. It’s free, and it’s relatively hassle-free, too, with the option to provide your phone number rather than having to add another card to the keychain. I think the Kmart K’Ching thing is a little gimmicky and those $0.99 “prizes” are incredibly lame. But all in all, I think it’s a nice first try by Sears/Kmart and I hope it does well. Definitely worth signing up for, in my opinion.
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I can’t complete my registration…It will not accept any password.
Repeating..Unable to sign on…Receive message of Apology..not available…try sgsin in as few minutes…that was over 300 few ago…Irresponsible…
Could not sign up would not take my pass word
Please read the pamphlet that comes with the card. It states “THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE GIVEN SHMC FOR THE PROGRAM WILL BE USED TO MAKE PREAPPROVED CREDIT OFFERS TO YOU”. No saleperson at KMart or Sears tells you this when you apply. If you do NOT want those preapproved offers in your name, do not sign up for this, or if you have, call the # on the card and opt out.
can’t sign in says my email is already in use now wn’t take my own personnal password just won’t let me in
your site is VERY hard to work with..could NOT find where I am to go to register my card.
Can not post rewards on system or talk to someone as I talk in english.This is America and last I checked it is the langage of our country.I will bring back to the store and give them back a $2,000.00 tool box in english. I will also shop someplace else that talks english to purchase a new tool box. I have been shopping at Sears since 1958. Good Bye in english.
Just want to find out how much money my 3,380 points are worth? Don;t want to sign up for anything else. Just like I don’t like telemarketers calling me, I don’t want unwanted e-mails either.
This “Shop My Way” is a bunch of bull. It is too much trouble, they do not add your points and when you try to correct that, they ask for numbers that you have no idea what they are and they are not marked on your receit.
I am cutting up my card and forgetting this mess, it’s not worth the trouble!!
I have to wonder why they are collecting all this information???
Do NOT get involved with shop my way, too much of a problem and they don’t add your points and you can’t.
Cutting up my card!
JUST SPOKE TO LISA TO ADD MY REWARDS POINTS ON THAT I FAILED TO HAVE DONE AT SEARS FOR A LARGE AMOUNT. SHE WAS VERY NICE TO SPEAK TO
Hi, I was reading few of the comments on this post. We have always had good luck with Sears Choice Rewards, their customer service can be a little challenging but we have never had any problems getting points applied. Anyways I noticed a few of you were having trouble signing up. Here is the correct link https://www.searschoicerewards.com/consumermx/welcome.htm?product=0171&ext_cat=0171
Apologies to the webmaster for the link, not trying to spam your site, just trying to give your readers a more effective link.
I was told I would get 200K points for buying a >$2000 TV on June 26. They still haven’t come through with the points and always have a different excuse when I call customer service. I should just write off the $200 in rewards, but I am so mad that I will keep on bugging them until they get tired of me and give me what they offered. I would have bought the TV and been happy without the rewards, but now I am angry and not about to give up.
What about the customers omitted from Shop Your Way Rewards because they don’t have texting on their phones and people that don’t have computers. Not a very well thought out marketing strategy. Instead of employees pestering customers about Shop Your Way Rewards while they are shopping, the store could ask the customer on the pin pad if they have a Shop Your Way Rewards card. Yes or No answer. If the answer is No, then the employee proceeds with a sales pitch. If Yes, the customer is asked to rate the Shop Your Way Rewards program. The store could use this valuable information to improve the program to retain customers and resolve problems before it gets out on the forums.
they’re worth like 3 bucks, it’s the stupidest crap ever, for every $100 dollars you spend you only get $3 dollars back in “rewards” all a bunch of $h** if you ask me !
i can NEVER get on this site.
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