Earn Points for Trying on Clothes or Entering Stores With Shopkick App [IPhone Apps]

Granted, it’ll take plenty of clothes trying-on, or walking-in-and-out of Best Buy branches to really earn enough points to redeem against an iPod Touch or Facebook credits, but this Foursquare-like app seems like lots of fun.

Having teamed up with a number of US chains like Best Buy, American Eagle Outfitters, Macy’s, and The Sports Authority, users of the free app receive credits (or ” kickbucks” as they’re known) just for entering participating stores. Further kickbucks would be earned by trying on clothes, scanning a barcode to your iPhone, or maybe just picking up an item in a store.

It could get messy for store assistants, having to fend off Shopkick users who are obviously just trying on clothes to earn more points, but I imagine they’ll quickly become familiar with declaring the chancer in a line-up.

Kickbucks might be spent as credits on participating stores’ wares, or as credits on Facebook, on magazine subscriptions, song downloads or perhaps donated to charity. It sounds as though it’ll take a great number of check-ins to earn enough to get a freebie, with 1,250 kickbucks earning a $5 voucher to American Eagle Outfitters-that’s numerous visits to a store (which earns you 35 kickbucks), or various walking-past-a-store (which earns just 2 points).

Over 600 individual stores, and 100 malls across the united states can be installing Shopkick devices throughout the walls, which detect the presence of a nearby Shopkick app. Users of the app can use the map feature to determine exactly where the Shopkick stores are within proximity, and even see if their friends are inside a store-not just near it. [Shopkick via NY Times]

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