It seems that stores are competing to give us Cash back these days.. no matter where you shop!  The downloadable apps are everywhere.  My discount bread Store even has an app!  Last time I went there a bread "outlet" store, I was standing in line and heard the cashier say to the man at the check out desk do you want to download our app?  It was as if he heard that in a foreign language, he just stood there and looked blank stared up at the poster on the wall that showed the picture of the downloadable app and said "no, " in a very slow uninterested way.  I thought was is a bread store app... but I uplearning.  Big Lots has an app - my local nearest supermarket has an app where you can get free rewards as you are shopping through the store just click yes, I want my free item and go and get it (I must admit I like that one).  But some of them are a little more difficult to understand.  Maybe if they all did the same thing and all the apps were universally coded it would be easier.  But this is my favorite one:

a href='https://www.ebates.com/r/BRANDC75?eeid=28585' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>  click this button and get your ebates account.

this one sends you a check in the mail for your cash back and it is legitimate.  I have had at least two checks come back to me - just for shopping for items I would always buy anyway every month.

And just as a side note I heard on the news (while we are talking about shopping), Fred Meyer department store is going to phase out plastic bags, they want you to buy/bring reusable bags.  So as to save the environment.  I am all for saving the environment -- but why didn't they know this back in the day when they started this free plastic bag thing - that it would not be good for the environment that plastic does not break down into the bio system?