The Fresh Grocer survey is a New Jersey and Pennsylvania sweepstakes, and nowhere else. Its official rules limit entry to legal US residents of those two states who are 18 or over. The prize is worded as “a $100 Fresh Grocer gift card”, 60 of them, a $6,000 pool across the 2026 entry period. The entry page at tellfreshgrocer.com wants five separate numbers off the receipt, not one survey code.
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What you need
13 itemsHow to take the survey
Check first that you live in New Jersey or Pennsylvania
The official rules open entry only to legal US residents of those two states, 18 or over at the time of entry. Everybody else can complete the survey and win nothing.
Find five numbers on the receipt, not one code
The form wants the visit date, the visit time, a 3-digit store number, a register number and a transaction number. There is no single survey code to hunt for.
Copy the register and transaction numbers exactly
Neither digit count is stated on the entry page. Type what is printed. A guide naming a particular length is guessing.
Enter the date and time as printed
Month, day and year come from dropdowns, and the time needs an hour, a minute and AM or PM. The form takes each part separately, so read the receipt header before you start.
Open the rules from the entry page, never from a bookmark
The PDF address carries an ASP.NET session token, so it differs on every visit and a saved link fails. Go to tellfreshgrocer.com and follow the rules link there.
If something goes wrong
I cannot find a survey code on my receipt
- Cause
- This survey does not use one
- Fix
- The form wants five values instead: date, time, a 3-digit store number, a register number and a transaction number.
How many digits is the register number?
- Cause
- The entry page does not say
- Fix
- Copy exactly what is printed. Neither the register nor the transaction number has a published length, so any figure read elsewhere is a guess.
I entered but I live outside New Jersey and Pennsylvania
- Cause
- The rules limit entry to residents of those two states
- Fix
- You can still complete the survey. The entry will not be eligible: the rules require residency in one of the two states, plus an age of 18 or over.
When will I know whether I won?
- Cause
- The draw runs monthly
- Fix
- Odds are tied to eligible entries received during the month in question, and the period runs to 31 December 2026. There are 60 prizes in all.
The rules link I saved will not open
- Cause
- The PDF address carries an ASP.NET session token
- Fix
- That token changes every visit, so a bookmarked address dies immediately. Go to tellfreshgrocer.com and click through from there.
How long after shopping can I enter?
- Cause
- No window is published
- Fix
- The entry page states none and the rules state none. Enter while the receipt is legible.
A message says I won and wants a fee to release the gift card
- Cause
- That is not Wakefern Food Corp.
- Fix
- Close it. This sweepstakes awards $100 gift cards under published rules, and no legitimate draw charges to hand one over.
What’s fixed, and what actually varies
Two things here are pinned down harder than on almost any survey covered here. One is missing entirely.
Fixed
- Entry is limited to legal US residents of New Jersey or Pennsylvania, 18 or over
- The prize is worded as a $100 Fresh Grocer gift card, 60 of them, a $6,000 pool
- The entry period runs 1 January 2026 to 31 December 2026, EST
- Wakefern Food Corp. of 5000 Riverside Drive, Keasbey, NJ 08832 is the named sponsor
- The entry form asks for five receipt values and no survey code
- The store number is 3 digits
Varies
- Your odds, which the rules tie to eligible entries received during the month in question
- The register and transaction number lengths, which the entry page does not state
- Which of twelve monthly draws an entry falls into
The official rules PDF is linked from tellfreshgrocer.com and carries the sponsor, the prize, the pool and the two-state eligibility line. Its address includes an ASP.NET session token, so it cannot be saved; follow the link from the entry page each time.
How compares
Set against the other surveys in this batch, this is the one that shows its working.
| Chain | What the form wants | Who can win | What is published |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Fresh Grocer | Date, time, store, register, transaction | New Jersey and Pennsylvania residents, 18 or over | Sponsor, prize, pool and entry period |
| FoodMaxx | A 13-digit code, the time, an age answer | Not stated, and nothing is awarded | No rules document exists |
| Jim 'N Nick's | A 15-digit code in five groups of three | Not stated | A validation code, offer unnamed |
Rules are set per period. The PDF linked from the entry page overrides this table.
Sixty $100 gift cards sounds generous until the eligibility line lands: two states, 18 or over, five winners a month. A visitor from Ohio holding a Fresh Grocer receipt is doing paperwork for nothing.
Two states, sixty gift cards, and five numbers off one receipt
Start with the sentence that decides whether any of this is worth your time. The official rules for The Fresh Grocer “Customer Experience” Sweepstakes open entry to legal US residents of New Jersey or Pennsylvania who are 18 or over at the time of entry. Two states. A shopper in Ohio who copies five numbers off a receipt and fills in the form has entered nothing at all.
The prize is documented properly, which is rare enough to note. Wakefern Food Corp., of 5000 Riverside Drive, Keasbey, NJ 08832, is named as sponsor. The rules award sixty prizes, each described as “a $100 Fresh Grocer gift card”, and state the total prize pool as $6,000. Sixty into twelve months is five winners a month, drawn from two states, and the rules confirm that monthly shape in their own odds language: “Odds of winning a Prize will depend on the total number of eligible entries received DURING THE MONTH IN QUESTION.” The entry period runs from January 1, 2026 at 12:00:01 a.m. EST to December 31, 2026 at 11:59:59 p.m. EST.
Then the entry form, which breaks the usual template. There is no single survey code. Checked on 4 September 2026, tellfreshgrocer.com asked for the visit date from dropdowns for the month, the day and the year; the visit time as an hour, a minute and AM or PM; a 3-digit store number; a register number; and a transaction number. Five things off one receipt. Digit counts for the register and transaction numbers are not stated, so copy what is printed.
One gap survives all that documentation. How soon after a visit a receipt must be entered is undisclosed: the entry page does not say, and the rules do not say either. A sweepstakes with a named sponsor, a stated prize pool, an odds clause and a twelve-month period still leaves that unanswered.
Questions people ask
Who is eligible for The Fresh Grocer survey sweepstakes?
Legal US residents of New Jersey or Pennsylvania who are 18 or over at the time of entry. The rules exclude everybody else.
What is the prize?
The rules word it as “a $100 Fresh Grocer gift card”. There are 60 of them, and the stated total prize pool is $6,000.
How many winners are there each month?
Divide 60 prizes across a twelve-month period and you get five a month. The rules tie odds to eligible entries received during the month in question.
What does the entry form ask for?
Five values: the visit date, the visit time, a 3-digit store number, a register number and a transaction number. No single survey code exists.
How long is my receipt valid?
Undisclosed. The entry page sets no window and the official rules set none either, which is unusual for a sweepstakes documented this well.
Who runs the sweepstakes?
Wakefern Food Corp. of 5000 Riverside Drive, Keasbey, NJ 08832 is named as sponsor in the rules. The entry form itself is hosted by Service Management Group.
When does the entry period end?
The documented period runs from January 1, 2026 at 12:00:01 a.m. EST through to December 31, 2026 at 11:59:59 p.m. EST.
Why does the rules link never work twice?
Its address carries an ASP.NET session token that changes on each visit. Open tellfreshgrocer.com and follow the link from the entry page.