Getting paid to shop is literally my dream, and the Nielsen Homescan Panel is a great way to get rewarded for doing your usual shopping. The idea is very simple – once you have been shopping for your groceries then scan in all the barcodes and enter the prices using the handheld device that you are sent. You will then earn points from Nielsen Homescan and spend them on rewards on their website.
What is Nielsen Homescan?
Neilsen Homescan are a market research company.
They want to collate data on our shopping experiences, habits, etc in order to shape future products and improvements in stores.
To get access to this data, they will reward us by offering us an incentive for signing up.
What do you earn with Nielsen Homescan?
Scan in your shopping and you will earn points on a weekly basis.
There are also bonus points to be earned for scanning in your shopping on a regular basis.
You will also be sent a short survey via email which pays out even more reward points.
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Is Nielsen Homescan worth it?
I’ll be honest – scanning your shopping is boring. You also have to scan the price and whether the item was on any offer or promotion, which takes me around 10 minutes after each shop. At first the rewards seemed pointless, until 8 weeks later, when I’d amassed 1400 points…and they’ve been lucky if I’ve managed to scan one week worth of shopping, and due to being on holiday I went 5 weeks without scanning. Not bad at all!
Is it worth doing? Well that’s up to you! There’s a wide variety of rewards on offer with Nielsen Homescan and it makes a great side hustle.
Giving up with Nielsen Homescan
If you won’t want to continue with Nielsen Homescan then you can return the scanner at any time which is handy, so you don’t have to commit to it forever. It is quite a faff and I’ve often put away all my shopping before remembering to scan anything.
Article was first published on 13 May, 2011.
3 responses
Ooo me me me. I’ll give you my details if your on msn later tonight
I have joined shopandscan.com which is similar. Good so far 🙂
My Mum done this for about a year and then cashed in her points and sent it in when she got bored of it. She got quite a lot of rewards from it but I don’t think it was worth the hassle.