Sep 9

Safeway Promotion for $1,000 Gift Card Giveaways in DC Metro Area

Gina from MoneywiseMoms just released the news on Safeway’s upcoming $1,000 gift card giveaways (14 of them) here in the Washington DC metropolitan area.  Check out her post here with all the details on the contest going on September 12-18, 2009.  You just need to pick up a special car decal at your local Safeway and listen to either Mix 107.3 FM or Magic 95.9 FM to find out what Safeway location the giveaway will take place at each daymore details.  Apparently I misunderstood and thought that they would announce exactly which Safeway location they would be going to each day, but instead they will randomly select one Safeway store in Northern VA and one in the Baltimore area each day and show up on an unannounced time to see if anyone there has the car decal in the parking lot.  This makes it a lot more difficult to win, as there are approximately 140 stores in the DC metro area.  When looking on their store locator page, I’m having a difficult time figuring out how many stores are actually in Northern VA (at least 33+).  Any statisticians out there that can figure out the chance that they will actually show up to your local store (the closest one to you) in the next 5 days that the contest is going on?  I took a Stats class in college and can hardly remember anything (except that it was one of my more difficult math classes!).

I’m super excited!