Article Roundup - Retailers Cashing Economic Stimulus Checks
The US government's economic stimulus checks will start arriving shortly in 130 million US households (the only way to actually get one is to have filed a US federal tax return for 2007). See the Economic Stimulus Payments Information Center at the IRS web site for details on the program.
Here's an article roundup of some good newspaper coverage of the various retailers offering incentives to cash your stimulus check:
- Hartford Courant: Retailers Looking For Rebate Check Jackpot
- Boston Globe: Retailer Wal-Mart to cash tax rebate checks for free, cut prices
- New York Times: Tax Rebates in $168 Billion Stimulus Plan Begin Arriving in Bank Accounts
- Washington Post: Check's in the Mail? Shop Till You Drop
- AP: Retailers offer specials to entice shoppers to spend rebates
- Houston Chronicle: Will sales stimulate you to spend?
- New York Daily News: Pick me! Pick me! Major retailers battle for your federal rebate cash
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Retailers aim for rebate spending
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