AutoZoneCares takes a 17-digit Reference Number printed at the bottom of your purchase receipt. The prize is the part nobody agrees on — published sources report a $5,000 cash prize and a $10,000 cash prize with equal confidence, a fivefold spread on the only figure most people are there for. The official rules linked from the live survey are the only current answer.
What you need
12 itemsRuns in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere. Sources agree the Reference Number is 17 digits, so a mismatch here is usually a genuine transcription error rather than a disputed figure. Letters are almost always misread digits.
How to take the survey
Find the Reference Number at the bottom
It sits at the bottom of the purchase receipt and is 17 digits. Unlike the prize, this figure is consistent across sources, so a rejected number is more likely a transcription error than a disagreement about length.
Answer the eligibility question first
AutoZoneCares asks whether you are eligible for the sweepstakes before the survey begins rather than after. Answering it wrongly at the start is harder to correct than a missed opt-in at the end.
Type autozonecares.com yourself
Enter it in the address bar rather than clicking a search result. Large cash prizes attract imitation sites, and a page promising $10,000 has a strong incentive to be found.
Rate the visit
Overall satisfaction with product quality, staff knowledge, store condition and whether you found what you came for. Available in English and Spanish.
Read the official rules before believing a number
The gap between $5,000 and $10,000 is the whole decision for most people, and neither figure comes from AutoZone in the sources that quote them. The rules linked from the survey state the current prize and the odds.
Give a contact route
A draw needs a way to reach a winner. Use an email address you check, and expect nothing — a large prize across a national entry pool means the odds are correspondingly poor.
What’s fixed, and what actually varies
AutoZone runs its own stores, so the mechanics are stable. The prize is where the published record breaks down.
Fixed
- The Reference Number is 17 digits, at the bottom of the receipt
- The eligibility question comes before the survey rather than after
- One entry per receipt
- The survey runs in English and Spanish
- Stores are company-operated, so terms are consistent nationally
- Employees and their immediate families are excluded
Varies
- The prize — $5,000 and $10,000 are both published as fact
- How many winners are drawn per period
- The entry period dates
- Whether a promotion is running when you take it
- Whether an alternative no-purchase entry route is offered in the current period
The official rules linked from the live survey state the prize, the odds and the entry limits, and they change between periods. A fivefold disagreement between published guides is a reliable sign that nobody quoting a figure has read the current rules — including whoever wrote the page ranking above this one.
How AutoZone compares
AutoZone advertises the largest headline prize of the retailers covered here, and the least verifiable one.
| Chain | What you enter | Window | Typical reward |
|---|---|---|---|
| AutoZone | 17-digit Reference Number | Check your receipt | Claims range $5,000 to $10,000 |
| Target | Store number, transaction number, date | 7 days | Undisclosed — claims range $25 to $1,500 |
| Lowe's | 18-digit ID, printed as 6-6-6 | 7 days | $500 monthly draw — you must opt in |
Rewards vary by location and promotional period. Your own receipt overrides this table.
Lowe's states $500 and a monthly draw plainly. Target states nothing at all. AutoZone sits in between — a large figure that everyone repeats and nobody sources, which is arguably the least useful of the three positions because it looks like information.
If something goes wrong
- Cause
- A transcription error, most likely
- Fix
- Sources agree it is 17 digits, so the length is not in dispute. Re-enter from the receipt and read any apparent O as a zero and any I as a one.
- Cause
- It is at the bottom rather than near the total
- Fix
- Look at the very bottom of the purchase receipt. If the receipt carries no survey invitation, that visit does not qualify.
- Cause
- Published figures range from $5,000 to $10,000
- Fix
- The official rules state the current one. Any article quoting a figure without a date is describing a past promotion or repeating another site.
- Cause
- This is a draw, not a guaranteed reward
- Fix
- That is the expected outcome. Winners are selected under the official rules and everyone else receives nothing.
- Cause
- That is not AutoZone
- Fix
- Close it. No legitimate sweepstakes charges you to release a prize, and a large advertised prize makes this topic a common target for that approach.
- Cause
- It appears before the survey rather than after
- Fix
- Start again from the beginning. It is asked up front specifically so ineligible entries are filtered before the questions.
A large prize is a reason to be more careful, not less
AutoZone's survey advertises the biggest headline figure of any covered on this site, and the sources cannot agree whether it is $5,000 or $10,000. That is a fivefold spread on the single number the whole thing turns on.
The size of the prize matters for a second reason. A page promising ten thousand dollars has a strong commercial incentive to rank, which makes this topic attractive to build imitation sites around — and makes the fee-to-release-your-prize approach more profitable here than on a survey offering a free donut. The genuine survey asks for a Reference Number and nothing else. It never asks for card details, a processing fee, or a Social Security number.
AutoZone, Inc. operates from Memphis, Tennessee and runs its own stores rather than franchising, so the mechanics of the survey genuinely are the same wherever you shopped. Only the prize is uncertain, and only because nobody publishing a figure appears to have checked the rules.
One separation worth making: AutoZone Rewards is the loyalty programme and Duralast is the in-house parts brand. Neither has any connection to the receipt survey, though all three appear on the same receipt and get conflated regularly.
Questions people ask
How many digits is the AutoZone Reference Number?
Seventeen, printed at the bottom of the purchase receipt. Unlike the prize, this figure is consistent across sources.
What can I win?
Published sources report $5,000 and $10,000 cash prizes with equal confidence. The official rules linked from the survey state the current figure, and neither number appears to be sourced from AutoZone.
Do I definitely get something?
No. This is a sweepstakes entry rather than a reward. Winners are drawn under the official rules and everyone else gets nothing.
Where is the Reference Number on the receipt?
At the very bottom. If the receipt carries no survey invitation, that purchase does not qualify.
Why does it ask about eligibility first?
AutoZoneCares filters ineligible entrants before the questions rather than after, which is unusual — most surveys ask at the end. Answering wrongly means starting again.
Is this connected to AutoZone Rewards?
No. AutoZone Rewards is the loyalty programme where you earn on purchases. The receipt survey is separate.
Why do the prize figures differ so much?
Because the sites quoting them are copying each other rather than the official rules, and prize amounts change between promotion periods.
Is the survey in Spanish?
Yes. English and Spanish are both available.