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Types of Scrip

Albertson's grocery stores

Paper/plastic (gift certificates/cards)

eScrip (automatic by using your credit cards)

Online shopping (SchoolPop)

SchoolPop Visa (Tapestry gets 1% of every puyrchase)!

Groceries
An easy way to help Tapestry is to purchase your groceries each week using scrip. Over a year, groceries add up to a lot so shopping for groceries with scrip can really help! See below for a list of stores.

Gas
Gas cards available include Amoco (BP), Arco, Chevron, Tesoro, Texaco, Exxon Mobil, and Shell

Scrip

Buy scrip and raise some money for Tapestry at no cost to you!

Four fund-raisers at no cost to you. Yes, no cost!

  1. The first and the simplest of the four types of scrip is Albertsons. You take an Albertsons card from the scrip table. It has our name and number. The clerk scans it and profit comes directly to the church based on our amount of participation. The % goes up the more we buy.

    If you have an Albertson's Preferred Savings card, it can be linked to the Tapestry account so that you only need one card. Then, whenever you use your Preferred Savings card, Tapestry automatically gets the usual percentage. Ask a cashier to link the two cards.

  2. The second and oldest type is paper/plastic scrip. Scrip is offered in the form of debit cards (gift cards) and paper scrip (gift certificates) each Sunday morning at the table in the social hall. You purchase the certificates for face value and spend them just like money at the store. Tapestry purchases them at a discount and the difference is a source of revenue. The list of merchants includes restaurants, grocery stores, fast food, department stores, super stores, gas companies, children's stores, home furnishings stores, bookstores and others.

    For the full list of merchants with discounts and card denominations download the Scrip Merchants document (PDF, 0.5 MB). To help Tapestry the most, think about using scrip for purchases you make all the time like gas and groceries. And check the Scrip Merchants document to find the merchants that give us the highest discount, like See's Candies (23%!) and Macy's (10%).

    Also, one "merchant" not on the list is American Express. You can purchase Amex travler's checks which you can use at any merchant that accepts them.

    Every Sunday there are many "in the box" ready to buy. Scrip for any merchant can be ordered and is usually available by the next Sunday. If you anticipate a need for a large quantity of scrip or perhaps scrip for a merchant we don't usually keep in inventory, contact Anne Farrell at

  1. eScrip logoThe third opportunity for no-cost-to-you fundraising is eScrip. Your credit cards can be registered with them and anything you buy with those credit cards at any of their merchants will produce a percentage for the Tapestry. Our church has an account: UU Church of South County (our name before we changed it to Tapestry, a Unitarian Universalist Congregation) and the ID# 3813130. Enroll online and they will send you your password. See the step-by-step registration instructions.

  2. SchoolPop logoThe fourth is a new online shopping service called SchoolPop. At their web site, you will see many catalogs including Land’s End, Office Depot, L.L.Bean, JC Penney and 200 more vendors. You can shop from your catalog.

    Again, you have to enroll before shopping. When you go to the web site to register, enter "UU Church of South County" (our name before we changed it to Tapestry, a Unitarian Universalist Congregation) in the School, PTA or Other box, leave the city blank and select California for the state. Then enter your personal info and go shopping!


    Also, SchoolPop has a Visa credit card which gives Tapestry 1% of every purchase you make with the card. This is even better than registering your existing credit cards with eScrip because in that case we only get a percentage when used at participating merchants. With the SchoolPop Visa, Tapestry gets 1% of every purchase made with the card. Sign up now!

If you have any questions, email   Anne Farrell at for paper/plastic scrip, Tara Sayre for eScrip and Marie Ferguson for Schoolpop®.

Ordering Scrip Cards or Certificates

We keep a supply of scrip for popular stores on hand for sale on Sunday mornings but, of course, it's impossible to have cards & certificates for every merchant. And it's only possible to keep a limited amount of the ones that we do carry. So, if you want to be sure of getting scrip for a particular store, the best way to do so is to order it before the next Sunday service. Contact Anne Farrell at

Groceries

The list of available stores includes:

  • Stater Brothers
  • Albertson's
  • Pavilion's
  • Von's
  • Smart & Final
  • Mother's
  • Henry's

Stop by the scrip table to pick up your cards before you go shopping next week!

Questions?

Stop by the scrip table on Sundays before or after the service. We are happy to answer questions.

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