The Nielsen Homescan Consumer Panel is accepting new applicants, these are far and few between and often the spaces fill up quickly so if you’re at all interested I’d jump on this offer!
Panel members that are accepted with Nielsen Homescan will be sent a small hand-held scanner. You’re asked to scan all the bar codes of everything you purchase. Weekly they ask you to send them the information from your scanner and in turn you’ll earn points which you can redeem for prizes.
They call the Nielsen Homescan Consumer Panel a “mini-USA”, meaning that you are a part of a select group representing the average purchases of Americans nationwide. The point of it all is make sure we’re getting the products we want! Manufacturers and retailers will look at the information you send to them to decide what products to make and sell to consumers all across the country.
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FUN! I applied–I’d love to do this!! Thanks!
Good, I hope you get accepted!
I applied and was told I was put on the waiting list. I hope I can get in!
I did this for 1 year and recently quit. it is really ALOT of work for very little. The incentive catalog is full of great merchandise. After 1 year, the MOST I could qualify for ( and I did every scan, every week, and all surveys, was an equivelent of approx. $ 40.00 ( if that).
I spend about $ 200.00 every other week at the gorcery store, and it would take about an additional 30 minutes to scan each item in. If the store does not have prices in the scanner, you have to add them. Also coupons. I just felt for ALL the work I put into 1 years time, that the amount of incentive I got was not worth it. Of course, they have great sweepstakes, but thats what they are, sweepstakes. In the beginning, you get lots of cute items (shoppng bag, can opener, etc.)
This is just infomration from someone that was just in the program. And they do, do alot of interviewing to get accepted.
I did this for two years and it was a total waste of time. You accumulate points so slowly and then hav t o shop out of their catalog to spend them. There wasn’t much to choose from. The work def. did not equal the value of what you got. After scanning my every purchase for my family of four for 28 months – I got nail clippers and a cheap pedometer. That’s it. For me, it was a waste of all that work for two years.