MINNEAPOLIS – Target is offering teachers a 15 percent discount on select classroom supplies this summer – and the savings start Sunday.
The department store announced the move in a post on their blog "A Bullseye View":
The push is garnering Target plenty of buzz. A Twitter user quipped that their website's servers better be ready to handle the wave of teachers registering online once the deal starts.
A study released this spring found that 94 percent of U.S. public school teachers spent their own money to buy school supplies during the 2014-2015 school year, according to a study by the government's National Center for Education Statistics.
The average amount of money those teachers paid out of pocket was $479.