If you are a teacher or employee in a public, private or parochial school in Bloomington, Richfield, or Shakopee, Minnesota you are eligible to shop at Companies to Classrooms.  If you are not a teacher in any of these districts, you still may shop at Companies to Classrooms by volunteering at our store.  Go to the VOLUNTEER section for more information about Our VOLUNTEER-TO-SHOP program. 

When you walk into Companies to Classrooms, you will see a wide selection of school supplies and other materials that you can obtain for your students and/or for use in your classroom.  These items have been donated by local companies and individuals who support education in your community.  To take advantage of their generosity you only need to do the following: 

1. Show the front desk volunteer your school employee ID. They will give you the proper registration forms to get you into our system. Once you are registered, you need only to show your ID to the front desk each time you come in and then you may shop! 

2. Take a clipboard, a shopping form and a pencil. 

3. You are allowed to take 15 items (item numbers) from our inventory.  Each item has an item number plus a limit as to how many of each you may have.  Therefore, you may have up to the limit on any 15 items.  For example:  If you take stickers, #3850, the limit is 50.  You may take up to 50 and this counts as only 1 item!  Many of our item #’s are unlimited which means you can have as many as you need of that item and that only counts as 1 item.  You can walk out of Companies to Classrooms with lots of merchandise—on average a teacher receives over $75-100 worth of merchandise each time they shop.

4. Record your purchases on the shopping form.  Again you may take up to 15 item NUMBERS.   

5. Take all purchases to the front desk where our store volunteer will collect your shopping form and check you out. 

6. Upon check out, you will receive a form with information about one of our generous contributors.  Please use this information to write or have your students write thank yous to our donors.  This is one of our best forms of advertising.  Companies love receiving notes from students and genuinely feel the impact of their gift. 

7. Go back to school with your treasures and encourage your fellow teachers to visit us!  

Current Teacher Shopping Hours 

Tues/Weds/Thurs
2:30PM-5:30PM 

Please note we follow the Bloomington Public School calendar—we are closed on all days when BPS is not in session.