Items to Scan at Grocery Type Stores as of 12/29/10

Below are the items you can currently scan for points and bonus coins at grocery type stores on the Checkpoints app as of December 29, 2010.

Bold Items are New Items to Scan for Points

• Seventh Generation Cleaning Product - 50 CheckPoints (Note: Mostly only carried by Target and natural food type grocery stores like Whole Foods)
• Degree Men Adventure Deodorant - 50 CheckPoints (Note: I do not always see the Adventure type, but have found other Degree Men products work.)
• Tyson Any'tizers Dippin Twists Snacks - 50 CheckPoints
• Tyson Grilled & Ready Frozen & Refrigerated Chicken Breast Strips - 50 CheckPoints
• SoyJoy Bar - 25 CheckPoints
• Energizer Product - 15 CheckPoints
• Hot Pockets Sideshots - 15 CheckPoints
• Doritos - 15 Checkpoints
• Rold Gold Product - 15 CheckPoints
• Tostitos Product - 15 CheckPoints
• Colgate Toothpaste - 10 CheckPoints
• Cottonelle Product - 10 CheckPoints
• Quaker Chewy Granola Bars - 10 CheckPoints
• Ore-Ida Fries - 10 CheckPoints (Note: the Tater Tots count!)
• Swiffer Wet Jet - 10 CheckPoints
• Ziploc Product - 10 CheckPoints
• Hershey's Kisses Product - 10 CheckPoints

 Total CheckPoints Available from Scanning Products - 370

Items to Scan at Game Type Stores as of 12/29/10

Below are the items you can currently scan for points and bonus coins at game type stores on the Checkpoints app as of December 29, 2010.

Bold Items are New Items to Scan for Points

• Energizer Product - 15 CheckPoints
• Nerf N-Strike Recon CS-6 Dart Blaster - 15 CheckPoints
• Call of Duty: Black Ops for PS3, PC, or Xbox 360 - 10 CheckPoints
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit for Wii, PS3, PC, or Xbox 360 - 10 CheckPoints

Total CheckPoints Available from Scanning Products - 50

Items to Scan at Electronic Type Stores as of 12/29/10

Below are the items you can currently scan for points and bonus coins at electronic type stores on the Checkpoints app as of December 29, 2010.

Bold Items are New Items to Scan for Points

• Belkin Product - 50 CheckPoints
• Energizer Product - 15 CheckPoints
• Nikon Coolpix Camera - 15 CheckPoints (Note: This can be tough because they usually have these products locked away and you have to ask to see box, which they might not let you do if you are not buying.)
• Nintendo DSi - 15 CheckPoints (Note: Similar issue as above with the Nikon Coolpix, but sometimes you can get lucky at places like Target with the box's barcode facing out in the locked display case.)
• Flip Video Camera - 10 CheckPoints 
• Create for Wii, PS3, PC, and Xbox 360 - 10 CheckPoints
• Despicable Me - 10 CheckPoints
• Disney's A Christmas Carol - 10 CheckPoints
• Forza 3 Ultimate for Xbox 360 - 10 CheckPoints
• Grown Ups - 10 CheckPoints
• The Last Airbender - 10 CheckPoints
• Toy Story 3 - 10 CheckPoints

Total CheckPoints Available from Scanning Products - 175

Tip #2: Clorox To Go Packs

So the other day I was complaining about round products being hard to scan and the hardest for me has been Clorox.  Well, yesterday I found a good solution.  I noticed that there were Clorox To Go Packs of disinfecting wipes.  These little pouches are so much easier to get to scan than the round tubes of the wipes.  It can still be a little tough since the packaging sometimes has to be flattened out a little like chip bags, but not as big an issue for me as the round ones are.

Of course, the best option is to scan the bar code on a multipack of the Clorox Wipes Tubes, but I do not always see those at the pharmacies.  Although, the To Go packs also rarer to find than just the round tube.  However, now that I found a local pharmacy that is convenient for me and has the To Go packs, that is totally how I am getting my daily Clorox Wipes scan CheckPoints and Bonus Coin.

Read more tips here.

Available CheckPoints Rewards as of 12/23/10

The Home Depot Cards are back.

Below are the currently available rewards you can redeem your CheckPoints for.  Note that I am listing them by category and some prizes appear in multiple categories.

Shopping

• $1 Amazon.com Gift Card - 300 CheckPoints
• $1 Home Depot Gift Card - 300 CheckPoints
• $2 CVS/pharmacy Gift Card - 600 CheckPoints
• $25 Bath & Body Works eGift Card - 7,500 CheckPoints
• $25 Gamestop eGift Card - 7,500 CheckPoints
• $50 FanDango Gift Certificate - 15,000 CheckPoints
• $50 Sephora eGift Card - 15,000 CheckPoints
• $50 Victoria's Secret eGift Card - 15,000 CheckPoints
• $100 Facebook Credits Gift Card - 30,600 CheckPoints
• $500 Louis Vuitton Gift Certificate - 150,000 CheckPoints
• $500 Neiman Marcus Gift Card - 150,00 CheckPoints
• Hermes Birkin Handbag - 418,500 CheckPoints

Gadgets

• $1 Amazon.com Gift Card - 300 CheckPoints
• $2 CVS/pharmacy Gift Card - 600 CheckPoints
• Apple TV - 30,000 CheckPoints
• Nintendo Wii - 60,000 CheckPoints
• iPod Touch 8GB - 69,000 CheckPoints
• QuietComfort 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling headphones - 90,000 CheckPoints
• Wii and Wii Fit Plus Bundle - 90,000 CheckPoints
• Toshiba Netbook - 96,000 CheckPoints 

 Travel

• 250 miles from the Delta SkyMiles program - 1,875 CheckPoints
• 250 Alaska Airlines Miles - 2,025 CheckPoints

Charity

• Aid Haiti Earthquake Victims - 300 CheckPoints
• Breast Cancer Research - 300 CheckPoints
• Build Entrepreneurs - 300 CheckPoints
• Cleanup the Gulf Coast Oil Spill - 300 CheckPoints
• Fight Global Warming - 300 CheckPoints
• Help Animals in Need - 300 CheckPoints
• Prostate Cancer Research - 300 CheckPoints
• Push Education Innovation - 300 CheckPoints
• Renew Our Democracy - 300 CheckPoints

Gift Cards

• $1 Amazon Gift Card - 300 CheckPoints
• $1 Home Depot Gift Card - 300 CheckPoints
• $2 CVS/pharmacy Gift Card - 600 CheckPoints
• $25 Bath & Body Works eGift Card - 7,500 CheckPoints
• $25 Gamestop eGift Card - 7,500 CheckPoints
• $25 iTunes Gift Card - 8,100 CheckPoints
• $50 FanDango Gift Certificate - 15,000 CheckPoints
• $50 Sephora eGift Card - 15,000 CheckPoints
• $50 Victoria's Secret eGift Card - 15,000 CheckPoints
• $100 SpaFinder Gift Card - 30,000 CheckPoints
• $100 Facebook Credits Gift Card - 30,600 CheckPoints
• $100 Farmville Game Card - 30,600 CheckPoints
• $500 Louis Vuitton Gift Certificate - 150,000 CheckPoints
• $500 Neiman Marcus Gift Card - 150,000 CheckPoints

Low Points

• $1 Amazon.com Gift Card - 300 CheckPoints 
• $1 Home Depot Gift Card - 300 CheckPoints
• Aid Haiti Earthquake Victims - 300 CheckPoints
• Breast Cancer Research - 300 CheckPoints
• Cleanup the Gulf Coast Oil Spill - 300 CheckPoints
• Fight Global Warming - 300 CheckPoints
• Help Animals in Need - 300 CheckPoints
• Prostate Cancer Research - 300 CheckPoints
• Renew Our Democracy - 300 CheckPoints
• $2 CVS/pharmacy Gift Card - 600 CheckPoints

Eco

• Cleanup the Gulf Coast Oil Spill - 300 CheckPoints
• Fight Global Warming - 300 CheckPoints
• Help Animals in Need - 300 CheckPoints

Bling

• Apple TV - 30,000 CheckPoints
• Nintendo Wii - 60,000 CheckPoints
• iPod Touch 8GB - 69,000 CheckPoints
• QuietComfort 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling headphones - 90,000 CheckPoints
• Wii and Wii Fit Plus Bundle - 90,000 CheckPoints
• Toshiba Netbook - 96,000 CheckPoints
• $500 Louis Vuitton Gift Certificate - 150,000 CheckPoints
• Hermes Birkin Handbag - 418,500 CheckPoints

eDelivery

• $1 Amazon.com Gift Card - 300 CheckPoints
• $1 Home Depot Gift Card - 300 CheckPoints
• $2 CVS/pharmacy Gift Card - 600 CheckPoints
• $25 Bath & Body Works eGift Card - 7,500 CheckPoint
• $50 FanDango Gift Certificate - 15,000 CheckPoints 
• $50 Sephora eGift Card - 15,000 CheckPoints
• $100 SpaFinder Gift Certificate - 30,000 CheckPoints
• $100 Farmville Game Card - 30,600 CheckPoints
•  $500 Neiman Marcus Gift Card - 150,000 CheckPoints

Beauty

• $25 Bath & Body Works eGift Card - 7,500 CheckPoints
• $50 Sephora eGift Card - 15,000 CheckPoints
• $50 Victoria's Secret eGift Card - 15,000 CheckPoints
• $100 SpaFinder Gift Certificate - 30,000 CheckPoints
• $500 Louis Vuitton Gift Certificate - 150,000 CheckPoints
• $500 Neiman Marcus Gift Card - 150,000 CheckPoints

Featured

• $1 Amazon.com Gift Card - 300 CheckPoints
• $1 Home Depot Gift Card - 300 CheckPoints
• $2 CVS/pharmacy Gift Card - 600 CheckPoints
• 250 miles from the Delta SkyMiles program - 1,875 CheckPoints
• 250 Alaska Airlines Miles - 2,025 CheckPoints
• $25 iTunes Gift Card - 8,100 CheckPoints

Scanning Adventure 12/21/10: Round Products

I am getting real tired of trying to scan round product containers.  Things like the Clorox Disinfectant Wipes, Centrum Vitamins, and Flintstones Vitamins have annoyed me the last few shopping outings.  The other day I had a hard time getting Clorox to scan at Wal-Mart until I found a combo pack that has three packaged together and the barcode is on the flat cardboard packaging around the bottom of the containers.  Today I was at a pharmacy trying to scan the Clorox and the first bottle I picked up to scan said it was not the right product.  This was after a minute of trying to get it to scan.  Then I tried another one and gave up on having any success at scanning it.

I have had slightly more luck getting the Centrum vitamins to scan, but I pretty much always get the thing saying it does not recognize it as a Centrum barcode.  Sometimes I have seen them as boxes with the bottle inside the box and those barcodes scan easier.  As for the Flintstones Vitamins I have trouble finding ones that are not the Gummies.  Not only are the gummies only in a round bottle, but the barcodes do not seem to work.  The ones in a box are much easier to scan and actually the only type that seems to work for this scan item, but I find them hard to find.

Anyways, bottom line is that I have found the round bottle item scans a nuisance.  I think that the scanning technology in the app has trouble with recognizing the barcode because the barcode is curved on the bottle and it is reading them as something they are not.  Or the app is totally messed up and does not have all the barcodes for the products, but this does not apply to Clorox because I really have had success on these most every time if I stuck to it.  Centrum and Flintstones, though, have to have some barcodes not counting despite it saying any of those products are supposed to work.  However, it is still hard to get the ones that do work to scan due to the round bottle.

Scanning Adventure 12/19/10: Wal-Mart and K-Mart

Finally decided to attempt scanning stuff at Wal-Mart today.  Thought it would be good since there seems to be a good amount of items available to scan.  Yeah, well it did not turn out too well partially because it is crazy in Wal-Mart.  Mostly, though, because most of the time it did not recognize me as close enough to scan stuff at Wal-Mart, which seems to happen at pretty much all big box stores for me.  I did at least scan Clorox wipes and the Nerf gun items.

I was annoyed that I could not get the video game items due to them all being behind the cases.  Definitely need to go to Target for those scans, as least the one closest to me has boxes on display you can pick up to look at the back and read about the game (and scan barcode for us CheckPoints addicts!!!).  Also, could not even find most of the food items to scan, as my Wal-Mart carries like no food.  I guess you need to go to a Super Center.  Not a big deal for me, though, as I always scan the stuff at the grocery store near my house anyways.

K-Mart was not quite as much of a zoo, but worse reception than Wal-Mart.  I was totally determined to get the Cuponk scan, though, since this is the only store to do it at.  Finally got it by going near front of store, but sometimes it feels really dorky to do this and then carry an item back to where it goes.  However, with everyone Christmas shopping right now, it somehow does not seem so bad to be browsing and not sure what to buy.  Not to mention I actually did that in the end with the one thing I was going to buy because it was not worth standing in the long checkout line for my one measly item that cost $1 and only $1.39 when not on sale.  At least getting the 100 CheckPoints and scanning a Belkin product for 50 CheckPoints made the whole sorta wasted non-purchase shopping trip not seem so bad.