Posts Tagged ‘national consumer panel’

Scan This!


20 Nov

Joined the National Consumer Panel- we’re like a Nielsen home, but instead of TV, it’s for what we buy. There’s a bit more work to it than I originally anticipated, but it’s still not too bad. We’ll see if the rewards being worth the work involved.

The biggest problem is that the scanner wants to transmit information late on Saturday nights, and it beeps when it does so. Considering it’s in our room, it wakes us up, resulting in the scanner being shoved in a drawer. Then I have to remember to pull it out and transmit manually on Sunday.

National Consumer Panel


07 Nov

We’re a Nielsen family. Not for TV, they wouldn’t want us for TV. We are a Nielsen family for groceries. I signed up and on Friday we received our scanner. Now, every time we shop, I need to scan in our purchases, put in what we paid, and then the little scanner transmits the data back to Nielsen. I think we might officially be part of the consumer price index…

In exchange, we’ll qualify for gift cards and special promotions (hopefully on items we buy).

It’s cool, though C thinks it’s creepy as the scanner plugs right into our router.

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