Cartwheel from Target

I gave up on it quite a long time ago. I've never been able to get it to work for me. Like Belle said, too much work for the amount of savings. It was just a PITA for me. YMMV.

If you shop at Target, it will save you money. It is an app on your phone, that will give you discounts on things you buy. You can add the discounts before you go shopping or scan things as you go or both. I have personally saved over $250 this year using it. Even better is to conbine it with a Target Debit Red card for an additional 5% off everything you putchase.

I have had the app for a while, but only started using it once you could scan the item and see if there's a discount. I saved $10 the other night using the app on things I was there to purchase, and then saved another $4 using the Target red card. If you routinely shop at Target I don't know why you wouldn't use it. 

I scan things with the app as I shop. It sometimes recommends another brand that does have a discount (and sometimes it completely misses the mark with its recommendations).

One tip - I lose cell reception at the back of both stores locally. The store has guest wifi you can use if that happens.

I mainly use it to check for bigger ticket item discounts -- clothes, furniture, home items -- that's where it pays off and is worth the time.

I got my kids' Halloween outfits for 40% off with cartwheel.
That was a HUGE savings.

At Christmas last year I got popular gifts like the new Skykanders game, Lego Dimensions, etc. for 50% off with cartwheel without having to fight crowds on Black Friday.

It's also one of the few ways you can save on Lego frequently.


Toys and kids clothes are frequently high discounted items.

I LOVE Cartwheel. So far this year I've saved over $400 with it.

I do grocery shop at Target so I have coupons for practically everything I buy. I like that there are coupons for things I actually buy like produce, bread, dairy. I also like that I can stack paper coupons with cartwheel. You can also stack target's text coupons (Target has frequent high dollar value text coupons like $10 off $50 groceries or last week it was $25 off $100 Star Wars merchandise, so I was able to stack that with our 40% off Halloween costumes cartwheel coupons and we were able to get so much stuff).

I do a quick search of cartwheel if I'm going shopping and I scan expensive items with it in the store. I think it's super fast and super easy.

I love Cartwheel, I've saved over $500 the last 2 years using it. I pair it with coupons, red card & Ibotta as well.

Just last month my son needed one of those expensive calculators for high school. I was originally going to price match to Walmart or Amazon (I do this often too) but it ended up being on sale and on Cartwheel 20% off, so ended up paying more than $25 less than I expected.

I usually scan my whole cart, but will also see what the big discounts are and use it to stock up on stuff (Izze's in particular, my son loves those things!)

Don't forget to add the discount to your coupon list, I've bought stuff and scanned the app, forgetting to actually add the coupons but it's not worth complaining over 5% off dishwashing liquid or whatever. I scored big on costumes and last year on toys when they had an extra percentage off even clearance toys and it included Lego!

Can anyone shed any light on what some of the badge descriptions mean? Or where else I can look for that info?

Some are easy for me to understand: "High Roller: You can bet you've hit the Cartwheel jackpot when you save $500 at Target. unlocks 1 offer spot" I reach 250 bucks in savings and I get 1 more spot for earning this badge. Got it.

But this one I don't get: "The Boss: Climb your way to the top of your leaderboard and unlock 1 offer spot with this badge!" I don't even know what leaderboard they're talking about! And who am I competing with??

Or, "Cartwheel Developer: Boring life? Be a dev   unlocks 1 offer spot"   Say what?

No you don't.

You just pick out your coupons before you go to the store. No scanning is required at all.

The scanning is the search function, if you *want* to search to see if a coupon applies to a product. It is NOT something you *have* to do. And you certainly don't have to do it to every item you buy.

My lifetime savings is only $191 over 3 years. However, I don't find it arduous because I typically am purchasing the same things. Usually there is an additional discount on a lot of the Simply Balanced food brands, which I buy. Up&Up items are also usually an extra % off as is Quilted NOrthern. There are some special larger discounts as mentioned above.

I have the app on my phone. it has a scan feature, and if i'm in there I pull out my phone, activate the app and scan the item I need to buy anyways. I don't search out deals, unless it's the halloween costume one they had a couple of weeks ago. That's more preventative on my end to keep myself from buying stuff I don't need but it's on sale so I "need" it. I've saved some money on it, enough that it's worth it to me - but that's literally because I'm scanning items I need anyways.

They also do really good toy deals at the holidays, if that's on your list. I've scored a couple of great deals over the years either by price matching or using the deal of the day there.

Just got an email that kids' clothes (apparel, sleep & accessories) are an extra 30% off with Cartwheel today and Saturday.