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GAP flipped on it’s head! Exclusively Vancouver!

POSTED November 7, 2009 BY Dana Spittal

So I attended a press conference and launch of a new rewards program at the Robson Street GAP location earlier this week, and it ruled! They are introducing a new program call SPRIZE that is literally a never-before-done customer shopping experience! Here’s how it works: buy something at GAP and if the item goes on sale you make the difference back! It’s literally that simple, but find all the juicy details here at the SPRIZE website!

It’s a crazy rewarding program for shoppers. GAP has really outdone themselves. But what makes this program V.I.A. worthy? Well the incredible thing is the SPRIZE program is offered EXCLUSIVELY in Vancouver’s ten stores! They chose our wonderful city as their favorite customer base to test run SPRIZE? How rad is that?

Something even more rad is that they literally turned the Robson store location on it’s head for the launch! It was insane, I got some sweet photos to prove how crazy it looked!

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Upside down mannequins:

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Upside down merch:

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Even upside down GAP bags!:

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The President of GAP North America, Marka Hansen and Senior Vice President of Customer Relations for GAP inc. Scott Key, announced the program and did a Q & A. Cool of them to come out!:

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They even flipped the street outside the store! They truly went all out!:

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Heres a video of the whole process:

There you have it folks. You should all really head out to a GAP store near you to sign up for Sprize. Because it is AWESOME!

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8 Responses to “GAP flipped on it’s head! Exclusively Vancouver!”

  1. p spencer Says:
    November 8th, 2009 at 3:36 am

    the cars, hotdog stand and bikes were a nice touch.

  2. jefchoy Says:
    November 8th, 2009 at 9:29 am

    The gap has done that for years but it’s cool they advertise it now… they also have an insane return policy….I always felt bad to take them up on it though….which is kind of a vancouver thing I think too…..

  3. Rob M Says:
    November 8th, 2009 at 8:07 pm

    Amazing. I’m headed downtown to check this one out.

  4. Cyrano Says:
    November 8th, 2009 at 10:18 pm

    too bad, the cars and hotdog stand were gone when i was there today

  5. J-Ray Says:
    November 9th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    Maybe next year they can give out slices of upside-down cake =)

  6. Daylan Says:
    November 10th, 2009 at 1:06 am

    wow that is awesome.
    and everything from the upside down car and hotdog stand outside to the upside down bags and gap signs were a really nice touch.

  7. yummm Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    this is waay cool. much better than the 7 day price adjustment. great reson to shop at the gap

  8. Guerrilla Promos Blogger Says:
    November 19th, 2009 at 8:54 am

    Very clever promo. Too bad they aren’t doing anything like this in the US…I’d definitely visit one of their stores if I saw this sort of thing going on outside!!

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