Shop, Play, Win!® MONOPOLY Reviews

by Hdeagua

ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY must’ve been designed by a 6 year old. No self respecting app designer would claim this. An absolute MESS of an app. The functionality is terrible! The stupid pointless match game that shows up every time you scan a card? A colossal waste of time and annoying EVERY SINGLE TIME. If you could scan multiple cards at once everything would be so much easier. Also the fact that you can only enter one entry sweepstakes at a time?? Are you kidding? I had over 300 tokens and there’s absolutely no way I’m gonna spend all that time entering 300 times for a cost of 1 token each time. Who came up with this honestly?!

Also the fact that they've reverted to entirely digital is shameful! My elderly parents used to love playing this game when it was a paper board they would give you, now they have absolutely no idea what to do. Acme should be ashamed of themselves, they must know no one wants to waste their time entering all these stupid tickets in. Absolutely disgusted and will no longer be playing or shopping at Acme.

by Cause007

ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY is simply a website, which would be convenient enough for quickly entering the (god-aweful) game piece codes, but the site/app has been completely broken this year: Log-in is never saved, site freezes/is unresponsive much more often than it actually working, and if you can get as far as the QR scanner, it doesn’t seem to work unless you have great, natural light (Seems to have trouble if an overhead light is casting glare on the game piece). Terrible. Not worth playing this year if they don’t fix their multitude of issues. The alternative - the physical game board - has its own significant issues, where I don’t think there was any quality control involved. I think their policy is “If it IS broke, don’t fix it,” because they’ve been using their completely non-sensical 5-digit codes with zero actual references to Monopoly for years! Don’t waste your customers’ time on this garbage.

by Market Street Man

I can assure you that I’m not the only one having difficulties trying to use this application. Does the company have any intentions of addressing the issue?

Maybe it’s time to refocus and consider another approach towards creating a more authentic company themed game. It’s obvious that because of the company’s refusal to partner with Hasbro the yearly promotional has faltered to a failing attempt of having to much pride of conceding because of the aforementioned decision.

I’m a loyal customer aside from the marketing gimmicks. I will honest with you when I say that I did enjoy the early origins of this game related to your marketing strategy. Seriously though, it’s the end game in regards to this theme. The time has come for a new strategy in regards to once again entice your customers to have fun instead of fustration.

by MasterBlaster32

ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY is poorly designed. It is cool that ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY will track your pieces. The problem is that it takes forever to scan them. After every scan, you have to hit a button to close the pop up. Then, hit the “scan” button again. ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY should stay in scanning mode.

The end of the game is around the corner. ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY is constantly freezing between scans. Not displaying a list of what you scanned. I’ve closed it numerous times, to help refresh it. That doesn’t help. I get logged out and am prompted to sign in again. I do all of it and there is an error message that says the system can not handle the request. I force close it. Try again... and I am signed in and ready to scan. Well... ready to try. It FREEZES again and again. I think logging manually will be quicker.

by Suvb

Seriously?! No way to contact any customer support that I saw in ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY . Was SO EXCITED that they had switched the game to a digital format. Haven’t played in years as it is so time consuming to search and tape things on. With a young family who has that kind of time? I downloaded ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY today and it asks for my ‘Just for you’ email and password. I enter and it says ‘email not found’. Odd... that’s the only personal email I have and get all my ACME emails through (can’t use my professional account email for this). Try a password reset but it won’t allow because it doesn’t recognize my email. Try creating a new account, tells me I already have a ‘just for you’ account with that information... SHOCKER! 😂🤦🏼‍♀️ Guess Im not playing again this year. 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

by Sadozombie2280

So I have so many coupons for the monopoly thing. But of course you can’t just take your coupons in. You have to scan them to even use them. But you can’t just use them through ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY . You have to have another app for that. Since I go to vons, it has the just for U rewards. However, when I logged into ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY , there wasn’t any option to even redeem my coupons. I have over 100 coupons. The virtual help does nothing, and the rules on the ShopPlayWin app helps with nothing. This is the most ridiculous thing ever. It wasn’t this difficult in previous years. Why can’t you just take the coupons in? Why are they making it so difficult to redeem them. It’s not worth it. No wonder they give so many out. They make it almost impossible to actually redeem anything

by Atlyssa

I play monopoly every year and have never had this many issues with ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY . First of all, it takes forever to click what store you’re using. I had to go through and click around for a good couple of minutes. Then you have to log in, it will prompt you to create and account every time. It won’t save your log in like it has in years past.

The worst part is that when scanning barcodes or the QR code’s, the pop up function telling you what you’ve scanned doesn’t pop up. So you have no idea how many tokens you won from that ticket (or whatever instant win prize) and you have no idea what pieces to keep or discard as it doesnt tell you which pieces you have already or which ones are new like it has in years past. Using the website is easier but you can’t scan and have to manually enter everything. Very frustrated this year.

by Therookguy

TLDR: ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY and game is created poorly and frustrating to use. Owners could be making way more money but are too lazy or cheap to produce a professional product.

This monopoly concept is a great idea for stores and could make a lot of money. I just don’t understand why it’s implemented so poorly. ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY is just a website. I’m stuck on a nonsense screen and can’t do anything after killing ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY . QR scanner is a joke. You have to scroll around on screen like a web browser. Was excited that this went digital. It turned out a failure. If implemented correctly would actually make the ‘game’ playable as opposed to paper board. The piece codes are an awful 16 digits to enter. Honestly a lazy production and an embarrassment of an attempt at a professional product that could make these guys millions.

by X83nl&te#ldi)

After opening ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY , I got the screen to choose my store but then changed my mind and tried to go back to the start screen. This is when my app nightmare began. At this point ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY isn’t responding to nearly anything. It won’t give me a button to choose a store. When I go to the menu and try to change between rules and fax at home, the screen won’t change. I have deleted and reloaded ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY several times and still no change. The start screen I am seeing doesn’t offer me a chance to choose a store. Instead, all it shows is a bunch of the brand products that are featured in the game. The only thing I have not tried yet is to restart my iPad, but I shouldn’t have to do that to make ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY work. I have worked over 40 years in the tech industry and have both Bachelor and Master degrees in computer science. If I can’t get ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY to work, what chance does my 97-year-old mother have. Albertsons— fix your crap, er, I mean, app!!

by Thomas Brothers Hard Cider

I better call the boss and tell them I quit because I won at the game of Monopoly!!!

Big promotions all over the grocery store! Tags all over items making it difficult to figure if something is on sale or just attached to this gimmick... ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY is pretty shoddy for a large grocery chain... the scannable link didn’t work and i had to go directly to apple apps and search for it. You also have to sign up for the other Safeway app to have any of this work.

I spent $500 in groceries and got 60 tickets. 32 were dumb coupons. 20 were scan to play. 5 were other gimmicky offers and 3 were “instant winners”! 1 loaf of french bread, 1 sack of flour, 1 can of stewed tomatoes.
Of the “scan to play” rewards I seen I think the $1 off your next purchase was the best offer. I won probably 5 16 oz bottles of water but still have to pay crv and tax.!!! I better call the boss and tell them I quit because I won at the game of Monopoly!!!

All in All downloading ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY , opening all the entries and trying to get the camera to scan the barcodes probably took me 2 hours. If I do it again I will open the entries toss the coupons I don’t want and then just focus on the scan to play tags. I still have to try and figure out how to correctly redeem the “Prizes” it’s not cut and dry go up to the check stand and get them or show the winning ticket...

by Shanshark

When I first started playing the game this year ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY worked fine. Awkwardly built, but it worked at least. The second time I went to scan more tickets, I became stuck in an endless circle and never got past the initial login. The third time I tried, I got logged in, but just got a screen showing a list of the participating brands and could not enter any codes. Now, I can enter codes, but only manually. There is no scanning option. I have too many tickets to be willing to spend hours entering all of the codes manually. I’ve deleted and reinstalled ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY multiple times. Most frustrating of all is that there is no customer support! I’m sure that if I knew how to Completely remove ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY I could reinstall it and maybe it would work.

Please provide a way to get tech help. I’ll be very annoyed and disappointed if I wasted all of this time collecting game pieces, opening them, and trying to get ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY to work for nothing but I am about to give up!

by CarrieinVt

Remember the Monopoly game of past with shoppers collecting properties to get a Monopoly and win a prize? Well, this is NOTHING like that, and actually bears NO resemblance to Monopoly at all. Well, except this “Monopoly” of affiliated stores gets to steal your time and energy to pretend you have a chance of winning something if you buy a sponsor’s products.
I figure I’ve “won” at least a case of water, one 16.9 ounce bottle at a time and a Boatload of single cups of yogurt, but the prizes never show up in my rewards - and yes, the game is connected to my email, the same way my Rewards account is.
Kinda worthless, a waste of time and next year I’ll just pass game pieces on to some other sorry sap.

by HintheJerz

I have participated in almost every time this game was out and have never won anything other then like a free game ticket or 50 cents off something...and I was a little shocked at the fact that now there only 2 tickets per “game piece” and I only received 5 pieces for spending $100?!! What happened to 1 (with 4 pieces) per $10? I’m going to play since I have the pieces anyway and you can’t win if you don’t try! BUT seeing LESS tickets for MORE money AND only 2 tickets per “game piece”!? It’s very discouraging considering actually winning something big is already next to impossible...they just made it so much harder :( just my opinion. And I will not go and spend a bunch of money I didn’t plan to spend just for tickets, especially with this apocalypse going on...good luck everyone!

by Kerrib0o

Yes, ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY is a little less-than-desireable in terms of user experience, but I’ve never had a problem with it until recently. I’ve been logged in continuously for weeks now and have been keeping track of my markers and tokens. Everything was fine until this week - all of a sudden I can’t get ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY past the “choose your store” screen. I press “log in” and nothing happens. I’ve restarted my phone multiple times and have no idea what’s going on. If they did a recent update (again - I literally was using ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY with 0 problems as of last week), then its due to a new bug/glitch associated to that update. I will keep trying to get it to work... but otherwise, at this very moment, it’s a pain in the in terms of convenience.

by Washdevotee

Just started ShopPlayWin with 4 tickets and won a package of organic coffee which would normally cost me $10-$12 (depending on the brand) in a grocery store. Plus I won a free token but I had to go online to find out how to use the token because I could not find the information on the big game board. Unfortunately I had already tossed the scannable barcodes on the ticket apparently necessary for the tokens since I was using the board and had not yet downloaded a scan barcode app. I figure the whole process is a numbers game and the game is entertaining once you start. Besides, who does not like winning a free prize? I am looking forward to seeing what else I might win. I say keep a positive attitude and go for it. If it becomes annoying or too tedious you can alway stop.

by CARB1NE456

Last year I downloaded ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY and there were a few things that were irritating about it. First thing was I had to log in every single time I opened ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY , which was fine till one day I tried to log in and it said my account didn’t exist. So I thought well maybe I’m being stupid and typing it in right- tried few more times- searched for my name and stuff.... didn’t find me. I created the same exact profile, same number, everything. Lost all of my tokens (62 tokens! I was saving...) and obviously I threw away those papers. So I stopped playing game... heck I stopped going Safeway cause I didn’t even deal with it (yes I was being a baby about it.)
So this year seems to be good, I don’t have to log in every time and nothing weird seems to be wrong. I thought I would write a somewhat good review cause I noticed there was a lot of bad ones.

by Mountain Fam

ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY is MUCH better now that you can stay logged in, and don’t have to log in each time you open ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY . But I wish that we were able to claim more product prizes. It didn’t take that long for us to claim every item (apart from sweepstakes) that was available to us. Now we have hundreds of tokens and only sweepstakes to use them on. Under the Product Rewards section, it shows that very few of the products have been redeemed. Can you please open these rewards up again, so that we can use our tokens for more of these items? Thanks. My family enjoys playing the game!

by Demcanulty

I remember when I moved to the Bay Area my housemate and I played monopoly that year and we thought it was amusing but grew frustrated with the great effort involved in figuring it out and keeping track of the little pieces of paper. So I’ve ignored it for years. But this year I opened some and realized there was an app. I had a little trouble with the login, but I made an account on their website, and then I was able to scan in my tickets, and it was quite painless. I could imagine kids and parents having a lot of fun with it, getting to scan bar codes like a checkout person, which honestly is still like a little magic trick that happens everyday at the supermarket. Thanks for making ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY, and I hope you keep working on the bugs, but it has real promise and is now a fun little addition to shopping.

by Jillyjillyjilly

I LOVE the ease of this; just scan and track! Plus, you can collect tokens and decide how to spend them! And it only takes a few seconds to scan-major time savings-so even busy mom’s can play with little effort. ACCOUNT SET UP ISSUES? I see lots of folks getting stuck at the “local store” part of set up. I remember getting stuck there too, but it turned out I didn’t do something correctly (didn’t scroll all the way down or didn’t enter all info or...?). Once I corrected my own error, it was SUPER EASY from ther!!!! I am so excited because last year I didn’t load ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY and tracking things was so time consuming.

by Michael Tells It Like It Is

iPhone 6+ = Works fine
This is way, way, way easier than only dealing with tickets by hand.
You do need to either sign up for ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY with an email and password that you create.
Alternatively, if you already have a login for the store app of a store that is running the promotion (like Vons for example), you can sign in using the email and password for that app.
Using ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY , you can scan the small QR codes on the back. That records and tracks the pieces you got in each ticket.
Contrary to other recent reviews, I saw no error tracking pieces ever made by ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY .
Remember that ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY only tracks your pieces. You will still need to keep them to turn in if you win something. So make sure you hang onto your pieces until the event is done.
Also, you can use ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY to scan the entry bar/letter codes for the 2nd Chance Sweepstakes.
Each 2nd Chance scanned gives you a random reward of 0-many “tokens”.
You can then use your tokens to buy chances at winning other prizes. You can also turn in tokens in order to claim grocery rewards like a couple of dollars worth of groceries or individual items, like a free donut, tinfoil, etc.

by JeanneDip

I was delighted to find out there was an app so I could scan my tickets in instead of sitting at the computer entering the numbers. But unfortunately they have tied the playing of the game to having a just4U account (Albertsons) or the equivalent, and though I have an existing account, I tried logging in over and over and nothing worked. I tried resetting my password, no luck, I tried creating a new account with a backup email address and that didn’t even work. You would think they would take the time to test these apps before they dump them on an unsuspecting public. Shame on you, Safeway and Albertsons. You should be treating those of us who religiously spend money in your stores a LOT BETTER!

by Rechella

I literally just downloaded this a couple minutes ago. When I open ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY , I'm met with this pop up: "UPDATE REQUIRED. A new version of ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY is available." So I check, and there's no updates and I cannot get passed that pop up. I try contacting support, and I put in my email and am given this prompt:We have reviewed the database, and this email is not in the system. Before you can enter your online game codes, you need to register for the game as a new player. Pleaseregister and begin playing. Thank you."
I am completely unable to contact support unless I've played the game and made an account, which I'm also unable to do. Bad review it is then 😞

by Greenleaf

It's sort of a minor punishment to have piles of these tickets to scan, knowing there's virtually no chance of winning anything except two hundred free Shutterfly photo books. But that's not a complaint about ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY . ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY is (or was) fine for its purpose. My real issue with it was that it won't keep scanning. The developers know that people are going to want to scan ten or twenty tickets in a row, so why make the users tap two or three times to scan each and every ticket? Just add a continuous scan feature.

But the real annoyance now is that the new "improved" version requires that I register an account just to scan these silly tickets. That's one step too far, Safeway.

by Staygold Ponyboy

You could spend 30 minutes attempting to log in, easy! You could indefinitely sit at the kitchen table and scan each game marker only to have ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY have 0 recollection of you next time you log in. You could repeat this process over and over again. And the process of scanning a single game marker is very involved and awkward, menu, scan, press back, menu, scan repeat. And ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY will then forget you and you can do it over again. If you can log in. Not that it matters because you need the actual physical piece and game board to win. Lastly, 5 wasted minutes to write a review given ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY 1 star. Don’t be like me and waste your time. Screw you monopoly app.

by 49ergal

Downloaded ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY . I’ve had to login multiple times because app keeps kicking me out. I’ve also had to type in my codes because the scanner would give an error message stating that the server was not reading it. After either entering or scanning the codes - ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY took so long to even read it. I would then close ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY and go in again, login again just for it to tell me it was not a winning number.

Also, when redeeming points, the server again would say the reward was not available yet, there was time left on the reward.

ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY seems like a gimmick to me. I would think a company as big as this would be able to afford a good app to make it seem to work in real time. Too bad.

by Cv1263

If I could leave less than one star I would! A colossal waste of time. The game lasts for months because ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY doesn’t work, or works so sporadically that you can only enter a few codes or track markers at a time before it stops working. All sorts of errors and spinning icons. As you scan the game codes and earn tokens it’s pretty exciting to watch your tokens add up. You can play the tokens to enter sweepstakes. But there will be error after error after spinning icon and “unable to process your request at this time.” Go ahead and turn your phone off and on, update your software and update ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY itself. Makes NO difference. I love the idea of it but if it doesn’t work then fix it or just stop trying!

by RichLucky

So when I first tried to logon, I used my existing email and password.
It said my password was incorrect.
So I requested that it send me a new password.
And I entered my existing email.
Then it said my there was no account associated with this email (not true!)
So I tried to set up a new account with a different email. And then it said, it could not set up my account; please see the counter service person at the store.
(Like that 16-year old is gonna know what to do, or even give a ship!)
Finally somehow got it to work with a third email.
Fast forward....
Now it’s within three days of the contest ending.
And the servers are so jammed with people entering tickets, that you can’t scan a ticket or a game piece, or even submit a token to spend for other prizes, like the $250,000 for the Escalade.
So it’s a $250 million giveaway, and ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY team team really had no idea that millions of people would be entering tickets in the last two or three days?
Amateur and sophomoric, and...CRAP!

by Ridbullo

Been trying to login for days. Does not let me. Reset password does not work after several tries over last two weeks. Support will not respond to my requests for help. Total garbage. Not worth “free” should pay you to tolerate this trash. Probably fails on purpose so dumb people just keep adding accounts and you get more and more spam email after they sell your info.

Apps is not good. As soon as you start typing your email it tells you it’s wrong AFTER ONE LETTER. Does not autofill email address. Can you not afford decent programmers or do you make us suffer on purpose?

Also, this game is a sham. Spent $50k at Safeway playing this game over the last few years and won exactly $5. If you want my email to sell all over the internet just give me the $5 up front and spare me this garbage app and fake game

by Krestinachiku

Last year I downloaded this and my son and I scanned all the ones we collected and also my family collected for us. Sometime around the end of the game I decided to look at the tickets after I scanned it cos it showed doubles for a couple and I knew I hadn’t had that one yet at all..turns out it wasn’t even showing up as the same numbers/letters as the little papers had on them!!!! I had no idea how many times this happened but, I gave up and rechecked the ones I saved because I had it and on ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY but, there were some that ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY said I had and I didn’t!!
Really hoping this time it does it right and I will be double checking right away.

by IceBear012

I’ve read all reviews regarding ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY , and I was very hesitant to download it. BUT I thought ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY had to be better than playing the old fashion way. And sure enough, way~ better. Just remember to keep all playing cards after you scan it. Some of the issues mentioned on the reviews are no longer valid, so kudos to ShopPlayWinMONOPOLY designers for listening to the reviews and taking action. Overall a pretty simple, straight forward app that makes playing monopoly efficient and fun