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25. Sears/Kmart runs the program.

You need a sears/kmart loyalty card thing (called shopyourway). It's free. Then you sign up for an account on their fitness site - fitstudio.com and link that to your shopyourway account.

You also need some gps way of tracking your mileage when you walk/run/bike. Fitbit will do that, or if you have a smartphone, the runkeeper app is free - I just use that. On fitstudio, link your fitbit or runkeeper app. I think there are other apps or devices that work, too.

Sign up for their fitin14 challenge. You rack up points for your mileage, up to $5 a week. Also, each time you burn 100 calories, you get points. Depending on your motivation to earn groceries, you can do one long 14 mile ride and get the $5, but you could also start/stop/save the activity each time you've burned 100 calories, and do the next 100 calories as a new activity. I do that sometimes if I'm walking, but can't be bothered to stop a bike ride for it. You get more points for weighing in daily, for setting fitness goals, stuff like that.

I'm fortunate, I can bike to a superkmart which has a full grocery department, and the round trip is about 19 miles. So I go, get my stuff for the week that I've earned, and that trip racks up enough points that I've earned the points for the following week by buying this week's stuff.

You can also hook up runkeeper or other apps to walgreens and simultaneously earn store credit there from the same miles but they aren't nearly as generous.