The Shop Bartow Buy Local Red Ticket Campaign is a new initiative created through a partnership of Main Street Bartow & The Greater Bartow Chamber of Commerce to encourage people to spend locally during the holiday shopping months. For every $10 spent at participating businesses, customers receive one red raffle ticket which enters them for a chance to win weekly prizes. The campaign will culminate with a live-streamed drawing event where a lucky individual will win the Grand Prize!

The Campaign will kick off on November 8th with businesses being encouraged to host an open house where customers can enjoy refreshments or other goodies. (Discounts or specials encouraged, as the businesses see fit.)

Promoting & Supporting the Red Ticket Campaign

  • Both Main Street Bartow & the Greater Bartow Chamber of Commerce
    • Posts on Social Media
    • Email Blasts to Members
    • Info posted on websites
  • Participating Businesses
    • Posts on Social Media (shared by Main Street, the Bartow Chamber and Downtown Bartow Retails.)
  • “Participating Business:” posters distributed throughout the community
  • WBF Radio Station advertising
  • Sponsors paying for local basket prizes and/or “Bartow Bucks” to be redeemed at participating businesses.

Participating Business Logistics:

  • Raffle tickets will be distributed shortly after registration, and as-needed / purchased thereafter.
  • Businesses will give customers appropriate # of tickets after sales at participating businesses. (1 ticket for every $10 spent.)
  • Customers must write their name and phone number on the back of the ticket(s) and give back to the business.
  • Businesses will collect all tickets. Main Street / The Chamber will stop by weekly to pick-up collected raffle tickets.
  • Collected tickets will go into a collective pot at Main Street. One ticket will be drawn weekly and the winner will be notified via phone and social media posts. The winning ticket will not go back into the pot, but all of the other tickets will remain for a future chance of winning.
  • Prizes:
    • Monies and/or products collected from participating businesses and Sponsorship dollars will be used for prize baskets and/or “Bartow Bucks.”
    • Bartow Bucks are gift certificates redeemable only at participating businesses. If a prize winner uses “Bartow Bucks” at your business, you will reduce their purchase cost as applicable, and then turn in the Bartow Bucks certificate(s) to Main Street for reimbursement.