Make Back to School a Breeze
Shared on 31 July 2024, by Julie
Back to school season can be stressful for teachers, parents, and students alike, but there are ways to smooth out the process for all involved. Shop smart with Share-A-Cart and cut down on the need for multiple trips by filling your cart with everything you need the first time.
Teachers: Take the Guesswork Out of Supply Lists
If you’re a teacher of any grade, there’s a good chance you’ve had at least one school year where you carefully compiled a school supply list for your incoming students in order for them to be fully prepared. Then, within the first week, it becomes abundantly clear that some parents used your curated list as more of a suggestion than a rule and you have some – or several – students missing necessary tools.
The good news is that Share-A-Cart can help you to eliminate these issues, or at least cut the number of occurrences down. Create a cart full of school supplies you deem to be utterly necessary for your students, then you can provide the link to parents. All they have to do from there is add your cart full of supplies to theirs and place their order.
Pro tip: Worried about parents skipping something in your cart? You can apply passwords to ensure that your cart can’t be edited. Name your cart something like “Ms. Anderson’s 3rd Grade Supply List 2024” and there won’t be any doubt about what your students need from day one. And if you do want to allow parents to edit the cart, you can add a note to the cart stating which items can be removed – if there are any.
Parents: Finish Your Back to School Shopping Faster
Gone are the days of making multiple trips to big-box stores or roaming up and down the aisles in order to check every single item off the school supply list. With Share-A-Cart, you just need your kids’ teacher to provide a link for a cart full of school supplies. Then you can add that cart directly to your own and finish your shopping in one simple trip.
Pro tip: Do your shopping for select items ahead of time. For instance, if you’re shopping at Walmart, you can add things like a backpack and lunchbox to your cart ahead of time; then when you receive the cart ID for the school supply list, you can add supplies to your cart and knock it out in one order.
Some Schools Are Already Using Share-A-Cart
If you’re shopping for an eighth grade student at Central Davidson Middle School in Lexington, NC or for those attending Jena Jr. High School in Jena, LA, you’ll find Share-A-Cart links for easy shopping already set up for Amazon and Walmart. And if you’re shopping for students kindergarten through sixth grade attending St. Maurice School in Winnipeg, Manitoba, you’ll find Share-A-Cart links for Staples.
And there you have it! Just a couple of ways that teachers and parents alike can benefit from using Share-A-Cart for back to school shopping. And for students, a smoother experience means less to worry about when their first day rolls around, giving them the confidence they need to start another successful school year.
