Meijer Madness hits Ferris again with its annual shop­ping spree sale.

Watch out as the mad­ness hits Meijer again for another wild round of its fifth annual “shop ‘til you drop” event.

Meijer Madness will begin at 9 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27 and last until midnight.

Jill Ulch, Customer Service Lines Team Leader, said Meijer and Ferris teamed up a few years ago to help “break the ice” for incom­ing stu­dents new to the col­lege life and to help col­lege stu­dents meet new people.

Three shut­tles will be trav­el­ing to and from Meijer start­ing at 8:45 p.m. and end­ing at 12:30 a.m. All will be going to and from these halls: Bond, Merrill/Travis, and Miller, and also stop­ping at the West Campus Community Center and the Rankin Circle.

Not only can stu­dents come and save 10 per­cent off their total pur­chase, but the pub­lic can also come to shop and save.

Many spon­sors will be there to give out free gifts to all stu­dents to pro­mote their busi­ness. Some new activ­i­ties the stu­dents can enjoy that weren’t around in pre­vi­ous years, accord­ing to Allissa Witucki, Interim Assistant Director of the Student Leadership and Activities Office, are: Rock Band, Mechanical Bull Riding, Games Show with the DJ, Wax Hands, Nintendo Wii, Air Brush Tattoos, cre­ate your own street sign, and dif­fer­ent nov­el­ties to play on.

College sur­vival is key when first com­ing to a uni­ver­sity. Witucki said stu­dents will be handed a “Survival Bag” with all the infor­ma­tion or items a col­lege stu­dent may need in order to sur­vive college.

Survival is impor­tant but this event is lim­it­ing its sale items to stu­dents and the pub­lic. Witucki said stu­dents can save 10 per­cent off their total pur­chase but excludes gro­cery items, C-Stops, HBC, alco­hol, tobacco, pre­scrip­tions, gift cards, lot­tery tick­ets, postage, park and enter­tain­ment tick­ets and lay­aways, and items, includ­ing gas, from the Meijer Gas Station.

Jill Ulch, Customer Service Lines Team Leader for Meijer, said, “Meijer only makes a tenth of a per­cent from every dol­lar that is bought at the store, so we depend more on vol­ume than on margin.”

For this all to hap­pen, Ferris and Meijer met every other week to dis­cuss this year’s Meijer Madness. Meijer got every­thing for its store, Ferris brought the stu­dents, and Y102 brought the sponsors.

Y102 will also bring down the store with non-stop music play­ing inside and out for the entire event, said Jason Schwind of Y102.

Some spon­sors include: The Gate, Mancinos, Little Caesars, the Air Force, and much more.

A vari­ety of items will be out for stu­dents to fish for: food, coupons, pens, cozies, key chains, etc.

Ulch said Meijer makes sure to sell lots of the dorm items for first years. They make sure to have dorm refrig­er­a­tors and Ethernet cables for the dorms, rolls of rugs and bath­room acces­sories as that is what they have sold a lot of in the past.

Ulch sug­gested, for stu­dents, to look for dorm bed sheets because “the dorm beds only take twin extra long bed­ding and not a lot of stores sell that; we have some fun col­ors and designs this year. We only sell them dur­ing the back-to-school season.”

Students don’t for­get your fans. Ulch said Meijer sells lots of fans to stu­dents each year because the dorms don’t have air conditioning.

The Madness is soon to begin so get ready for some free fun and some shop­ping spree savings.

For more infor­ma­tion con­tact Allissa Witucki at witchka@ferris.edu or x2674.