ecoStore Product Giveaway - April 11th only!

In celebration of our one year anniversary at Meijer and to announce to your shopper that we have expanded into the Baby category we will be handing out the following at 100 select stores...

FREE Samples:
One Wash Liquid Laundry Samples

Baby Mositurizer Samples

PLUS:
$1 off Coupon for any of the 10 ecoSTORE USA products that Meijer carries which are as follows:
32 ounce Liquid Laundry
33.5 ounce Oxygen Whitener
32 Ounce Liquid Dish
17 Ounce Citrus All Purpose Cleaner
12.7 Ounce Lemon Cream Cleanser
Baby Mositurizer
Baby Nappy Balm
Baby Shampoo
Baby Sleepytime Bath
Baby Body Wash

All ecoSTORE USA products are plant and mineral based and contain No Nasty Chemicals(TM).In conjunction with our anniversary at Meijer we are so excited to announce that we are now manufacturing in Michigan. This is a major selling point with the Meijer shopper....Made In Michigan!!

To see more about us please visit www.ecostoreusa.com .

Black Friday

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Friday the 6th, my wife and I drove up to her parents’ home in Michigan. On the way, I had the option of listening to “Bleak House” by Dickens, or Christmas Music. I am typically a fan of Chuck, but something about “Bleak” being in the title, and the fact that the book takes about 43 days to listen to, pushed me towards the Christmas Music option. I still feel the first week of November is too early for Bethlehem's Greatest Hits, but like I said, those were my choices. Anyway, once the playlist got rockin’ I could hardly help but cheer up a bit at the thought of Christmas being just around the corner, or over the river and through the woods and then around the corner. Now certainly, I don’t want to steal and of the glory from Jesus. It is His birthday after all, and He deserves a lot of praise! But, one can hardly help but think about shopping as well. This likely brings more terror than joy. My wife may be the only person I have met who prefers going to the mall when the entire city is there, everyone is super grumpy and wearing 7 layers of clothes, and nobody has what you want. All this to say that today I got a sneak peek at the Black Friday Ad from Meijer. At this moment, only the front page is available, but there is a link below that will be operational after 12:01 am Sunday the 15th. I hope you enjoy getting some great ideas so you can plan for the madness. Don’t forget that Meijer has an even larger selection of items on their website and lots of great deals on shipping. There is also a really cool shopping list generator called “GIFTCRACKER” that you can send to everyone on your list, so you don’t have to constantly ask them what they want.

Here are the links to everything mentioned.

Click for Black Friday Ad

Click for GIFTCRACKER gift generating thing

Front Page of Black Friday Ad

Wal-Mart Shoppers

Okay, I have really made an effort to avoid poking fun at Wal-Mart or contrasting Meijer to Wal-Mart. I just really don’t want this blog to turn into a big back-and-forth battle. However, this was too good to pass up. I stumbled upon a twitter account that posts pictures of Wal-Mart Shoppers. I am not responsible for any of the content that you find on that site, so enter at your own risk. You can check it out at this link: http://twitter.com/peopleofwalmart

Umm, better hurry

Okay, so I was a bit late with the coupon thing. I guess if you are reading this now, there is still time to print the coupon and save money, but you'd better hurry!!!

Free Coupon

For those who are read this blog and for whatever reason are not fans of Meijer on Facebook, you need to correct that. I guess not need, but I can't imagine a fellow Meijer enthusiast who is not a Meijer Facebook Fan.

In either case, whether you are a fan or not, head to www.facebook.com/Meijer to get a free coupon for $5 off a general merchandise purchase up to $49.99 and $10 off a general merchandise purchase of $50 or more. Click the "Fan Coupon" tab if the coupon doesn't automatically pop up.

social networking with Meijer

For those who are interested, Meijer has a Facebook fan page and a twitter page.
On Facebook, just search for Meijer and then become a fan. On twitter, go to www.twitter.com/meijer.

Paying it Forward

Okay, this has been a long time coming. A few weeks ago I promised an update with some great news from Meijer. Well, still great news, but there was a little snag. Here's the scoop. Jon, I'll call him my friend, works at Meijer. He was very interested in finding some unfortunate kids who could use some assistance with back to school shopping. Turns out I work with about half the unfortunate kids in Indiana, so I emailed Jon and let him know I could get some kids for him. Jon wrote back and said he would be very glad to include me in the list of recipients for the "Meijer Gives Back" program. I was thinking I would get a free back pack or a $25 gift card, and was already making plans to take out one or two of the kids I work with to buy something. Then, one of the higher ups at Meijer got wind of the program and informed Jon that Meijer doesn't just give money away all willy nilly. Jon had to en

d his program. He said he would send a consolation gift. I am now thinking possibly a Meijer sticker or something kinda lame. A week or so later. Bam! Jon comes through with a $100 consolation prize!!

Way more than I was expecting in the first place. I was also free to use it however I wished. Immediately I was thinking gummy bears, but my wife insisted on still using it for kids. Around the same time, Gateway Woods (my place of work) was having their annual benefit auction. My wife and I decided to use our $100 gift card to buy something to donate. We chose this very slick black ipod.

We then went to the auction to see how much the ipod would fetch. We figured it would pull at least $200. A lot for an ipod nano, but it was a benefit auction. Well, the bidding started at about $50 and hands were flying up like a commercial for "Sure" deodorant. The auctioneer could hardly keep up until the price got to about $300, then things slowed down just a bit. A tall 20 something in a Purdue shirt had his eye on the prize and wasn't faltering. He won the iPod for a mere $450! Then he gave it to this kid,

who was about jumping out of his socks.

Thanks Meijer for making possible a $450 donation to Gateway Woods.