Back to School Shopping with Visa and a $50 Visa GC Giveaway (Canada only)

Getting ready for a brand new school year, with all the excitement and first day jitters is a long standing tradition that has occurred through many generations. While going back to school nerves are something that many generations can identify with, the times sure have changed from our grandparents and even parents generations. For example, while we were children, back to school shopping meant fighting crowds at the local store and picking out pens and pencils from the shelves. If there was one department store in town, all the kids had the same backpacks. Today, around 72% of people surveyed (in the Visa Canada back to school survey) have indicated to take their back to school shopping online, citing crowds, higher prices, and general lack of time for the more traditional pre-school mall hopping. Now, with the Smartphone generation growing up, around 4% of consumers will do their back to school shopping from a tablet or a smart phone.

Credit cards are a must when shopping online for back to school supplies; however, security can always be an issue. Thankfully, Visa has developed multiple layers of fraud prevention systems and programs. With zero liability you don’t pay for transactions you did not make the added chip and pin make your visa extra secure and verified by visa password gives you added protection when shopping with online merchants. Additionally, Visa offers visa perks which are additional discounts offered to customer from dozens of well known and loved merchants in a huge variety of categories, by using a Visa credit card.

While the way we shop for back to school supplies has changed, the fact that we all want to get the most out of our dollar has not. The cost of back to school shopping can quickly add up, younger children can require a little less in school materials, but as they grow up, new school clothes or electronic devices may top the list of wants and needs. There are very few events that unite young children and young adults like back to school season. Although, I don’t have any young children, my daughter Erika is taking more college courses  to further her accounting education. While she may not need construction paper and pencil crayons, the high cost of post secondary education, makes her seek out back to school bargains wherever she can. Between housing, food and tuition a dollar saved on school supplies is a great thing.

Thanks to Visa, I was able to help my daughter out with much needed text books for her college courses!

To get you ready for back to school shopping Visa is offering a $50 dollar prepaid card to a Canadian reader. While back to school shopping may be stressful, at least with a prepaid Visa it does not have to be expensive. A random draw will be held by Random.org on August 17,2012 from all Canadian entries.

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