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GAP flipped on it’s head! Exclusively Vancouver!

POSTED November 7, 2009 BY V.I.A.
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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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  • p spencer

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

  • http://www.vancouveriawesome.com jefchoy

    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…..

  • Rob M

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

  • Cyrano

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

  • J-Ray

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

  • Daylan

    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.

  • yummm

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

  • http://www.guerrillapromos.com Guerrilla Promos Blogger

    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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