The first thing autozonecares.com asks for is not a code. Opened on 19 August 2026, the entry screen carried a single question — “Please select the country where you shopped:” — offering USA and Puerto Rico or Mexico, with the same line repeated in Spanish underneath. The 17-digit Reference Number that guides put at the centre of this survey appears nowhere on it, and the guide supplying that figure is also the one claiming a $10,000 prize.
What you need
11 itemsHow to take the survey
Answer the country question first
The survey opens by asking where you shopped, offering USA and Puerto Rico or Mexico. Nothing about a receipt appears until after that, so a page telling you to have a 17-digit number ready has skipped a screen.
Check you are 21
Guides describing the current rules put the minimum at 21, higher than the 18 most receipt surveys here use. If that holds, many of the people other sites send here are not eligible.
Gather the receipt details guides actually list
Two guides describing the current period name a transaction number, a store number and the purchase date. A third names a single 17-digit figure. Read your own paper instead of deciding in advance.
Type autozonecares.com yourself
Enter it in the address bar. Large advertised prizes attract imitation sites, and a page promising $10,000 has a strong reason to want to be found first.
Rate the visit
Product quality, staff knowledge, store condition and whether you found what you came for, in English or Spanish.
Or post a card instead
A handprinted 3 x 5 inch card enters the sweepstakes with no purchase and no survey. The same once-a-month limit applies whichever route you take.
If something goes wrong
The survey asked which country I shopped in
- Cause
- That is the first screen, not an error
- Fix
- USA and Puerto Rico, or Mexico. Nothing about a receipt is requested until after it, which is why guides describing the fields disagree.
I cannot find a 17-digit number on my receipt
- Cause
- Only one guide describes the survey that way
- Fix
- Others list a transaction number, a store number and the purchase date. Enter what your receipt prints.
I was told I am too young
- Cause
- Guides quoting the rules put the minimum at 21
- Fix
- Unusually high for a receipt survey — most are 18 — and one of the few points the sources do not disagree on.
The prize was not what I read
- Cause
- Published figures range from $5,000 to $10,000
- Fix
- The official rules at entry state the current one. An article quoting a figure without naming a period may be describing 2020.
I finished and received nothing
- Cause
- This is a sweepstakes entry, not a reward
- Fix
- Guides describing the current period give four winners a year against a national entry pool. Receiving nothing is the expected outcome.
A page says I won and wants a processing fee
- Cause
- That is not AutoZone
- Fix
- Close it. No legitimate sweepstakes charges to release a prize, and a large advertised figure makes this topic a common target.
What’s fixed, and what actually varies
Almost nothing here is first-party. The entry screen is; the rest arrives through guides quoting a rules document nobody outside the survey can open.
Fixed
- The entry screen opens with a country question, seen directly on 19 August 2026
- Puerto Rico is in scope, and Mexico is offered as a separate route
- The survey runs in English and Spanish
- A free mail-in entry on a 3 x 5 inch card requires no purchase
- Entries are limited to one a month regardless of method
- AutoZone runs its own stores, so terms do not vary by location
Varies
- The prize — $5,000 in most guides, $10,000 in two others
- What is asked after the country screen: transaction number with store number and date, or one 17-digit figure
- The minimum age, given as 21 by guides quoting the rules and left unstated by others
- The winner count, described as four a year in some accounts and a monthly drawing in others
- Which period a source describes — one widely copied summary covers 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2021
AutoZone serves an official rules PDF on the survey's own host, alongside a Spanish ruleset and a winners list, but all three are closed to automated retrieval. Everything past the country selector sits behind the survey, so this page cannot verify the prize, the fields or the age limit first-hand, and says so rather than picking a figure.
How AutoZone compares
AutoZone advertises the largest headline prize of the retailers here, and the least verifiable one.
| Chain | What you enter | Window | Typical reward |
|---|---|---|---|
| AutoZone | Country, then receipt details | Check your receipt | $5,000 check, four a year — or $10,000 |
| Target | Store number, transaction number, date | 7 days | Undisclosed — claims run $25 to $1,500 |
| Lowe's | 18-digit survey ID from the receipt | 7 calendar days | Five $500 checks drawn monthly |
Prizes change by period. The rules shown inside the survey override this table.
Lowe's publishes a dated rules document anyone can read before entering. Target publishes nothing and admits nothing. AutoZone sits between them — a large figure everyone repeats and nobody can source — which is arguably the least useful position, because it looks like information.
What can be checked here, and what cannot
Opening the survey settles less than it should, but it settles something. On 19 August 2026 autozonecares.com returned one question: “Please select the country where you shopped:”, offering USA and Puerto Rico or Mexico, with “Seleccione el pais donde hizo su compra:” beneath it. No code box, no receipt fields, no prize. Everything else sits behind that screen, and the sweepstakes rules AutoZone publishes on that same host, in English and in Spanish, would not open to an automated request.
That matters because the published record is thin and unusually confident. A guide published on 8 January 2026 gives the current period as 1 January to 31 December 2026, with four grand prizes of $5,000 paid by check, one per entry period, entrants aged 21 or over, open to the 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico. A widely copied older summary gives the same structure for a period that ran from 1 September 2020 to 31 August 2021 — five years expired, still circulating. A third states a $10,000 grand prize and a 17-digit number on the receipt; it is the source of both, and the two travel together.
The honest position is that this page can confirm the first screen, the two languages, Puerto Rico and Mexico, and nothing further. Where the sources split, both figures are given with the source attached rather than one chosen.
One separation worth making: AutoZone Rewards is the loyalty programme and Duralast is the in-house parts brand. Neither connects to the receipt survey. AutoZone, Inc. operates from Memphis, Tennessee and runs its own stores, so the mechanics are the same wherever you shopped.
Questions people ask
What does the AutoZone survey ask for first?
The country you shopped in. On 19 August 2026 the entry screen offered USA and Puerto Rico or Mexico, in English and Spanish, with no code box in sight.
Is there a 17-digit Reference Number?
One guide says so. Others describe a transaction number, a store number and the purchase date. The 17-digit claim comes from the same page claiming a $10,000 prize.
What can I win?
Guides describing the current period give four grand prizes of $5,000 a year, paid by check. Two others say $10,000. AutoZone publishes rules on the survey's own host, but the file would not open, so both are reported rather than confirmed.
How old do I have to be?
21, according to guides quoting the rules. Most receipt surveys covered here set 18, so this one is worth checking before you enter.
Can people in Puerto Rico or Mexico take it?
The first screen offers USA and Puerto Rico as one option and Mexico as another. Eligibility for the US sweepstakes is quoted as the 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico.
Can I enter without buying anything?
Yes. A handprinted 3 x 5 inch card enters the sweepstakes with no purchase and no survey, under the same one-a-month limit.
Is this connected to AutoZone Rewards?
No. AutoZone Rewards is the loyalty programme where you earn on purchases. The receipt survey is separate, as is the Duralast parts brand.
Why is this page shorter on detail than the others?
Because less of it could be checked. No rules document was reachable from outside the survey, so the prize, the fields and the age limit are attributed rather than verified.