21 places on this list actually do something for teachers, and only about half are a straight percentage off. The rest are a free membership, a tax exemption, a stricter-than-usual verification bar, an honest “no,” and one that closed for good. Each one is checked at the source, not copied from another list.
Costco: A Free Shop Card for New Members
Costco gives new teacher members a digital shop card, $40 with a new Executive Membership or $20 with a new Gold Star Membership, verified through SheerID. It’s a signup incentive rather than a discount on individual purchases, and it’s limited to new members.
Full details in our Costco teacher discount guide.
Sam’s Club: A Discounted Membership
Sam’s Club offers new teacher members a Club membership at 60% off, or a discounted Sam’s Club Plus membership, verified through ID.me. Eligibility covers classroom teachers, principals, assistant principals, school employees generally, and college and university professors.
Full details in our Sam’s Club teacher discount guide.
KitchenAid: Real Discount, Unpublished Rate
KitchenAid runs a real Professional Discounts program for teachers and students sitewide on major appliances, verified through SheerID. The exact percentage isn’t published anywhere on KitchenAid’s own site; it shows once your account clears verification.
Full details in our KitchenAid teacher discount guide.
LG Electronics: 10% Guaranteed, Up To 20%
LG’s Appreciation Program gives teachers a guaranteed 10% off, verified through ID.me, with select premium products like OLED TVs qualifying for up to 20%. It’s a single-use code emailed after verification, applied at checkout.
Full details in our LG Electronics teacher discount guide.
Home Depot and Lowe’s: Not a Personal Discount, a Tax Exemption
Neither Home Depot nor Lowe’s gives teachers a personal percentage off. Both offer a sales-tax exemption on purchases made with school funds for classroom or school use: register at homedepot.com/gov for Home Depot, or bring a tax-exempt certificate to the register at Lowe’s, which is in-store only. If you’re paying with your own money for your own classroom decorations, neither applies.
Full details in our Home Depot teacher discount guide.
Full details in our Lowe’s teacher discount guide.
Overstock: A Free Membership, Not a Purchase Discount
Overstock doesn’t take a percentage off your order for being a teacher. It gives teachers a free year of Welcome Rewards Plus (formerly Club O), the loyalty membership other shoppers pay $19.95 a year for, verified through ID.me. That membership then earns free shipping and at least 5% back in rewards on every purchase.
Full details in our Overstock teacher discount guide.
IKEA: No Standing Discount, But a Real Alternative
IKEA has no confirmed, nationwide personal teacher discount, despite what some lists imply. What’s real: IKEA for Business offers classroom tax exemption and bulk pricing, and individual stores sometimes run their own one-off “Teacher Appreciation” events, typically 10% off in-store on a specific date at that location only.
Full details in our IKEA teacher discount guide.
The Container Store: The Teacher Program Is Gone, But Cash Back Isn’t
The Container Store’s old “Organized Teacher Discount Program” has been retired; its signup page now redirects to the homepage. A real cash-back route still exists through Rakuten, which currently lists an active rate for the store.
Full details in our The Container Store teacher discount guide.
BJ’s Wholesale Club: Another Discounted Membership
BJ’s Wholesale Club offers educators a membership for $25, regularly $55, plus a $10 welcome bonus, verified through ID.me. Unlike a lot of back-to-school promotions, this one runs year-round rather than during a limited window.
Full details in our BJ’s Wholesale Club teacher discount guide.
Maytag and Whirlpool: Real Discounts, Unpublished Rates
Maytag and Whirlpool are sibling brands under Whirlpool Corporation, running the identical Professional Discounts program already covered above for KitchenAid: real, verified through SheerID, sitewide on major appliances, with no percentage published anywhere on either site.
Full details in our Maytag teacher discount guide.
Full details in our Whirlpool teacher discount guide.
GE Appliances: Real Discount Through a Private Store
GE Appliances runs its own separate program through a private store, verified once through ID.me. The rate isn’t published as a standing number, there’s a $99 minimum purchase, and Monogram-brand appliances are excluded.
Full details in our GE Appliances teacher discount guide.
Lovesac: 5% Off, Usable Three Times a Year
Lovesac gives teachers 5% off through its Heroes Discount, verified through SheerID. The code is single-use but can be requested up to three times a year, useful if you’re building out a Sactionals setup piece by piece.
Full details in our Lovesac teacher discount guide.
Mattress Firm and Purple: Two Different Rates for the Same Brand
Mattress Firm gives verified teachers an extra 20% off qualifying purchases, verified through ID.me, with Purple mattresses carved out at their own separate 10% rate per the same terms (confusingly worded enough that it’s worth confirming at checkout). Buying a Purple mattress directly from Purple.com instead runs a separate, more clearly worded SheerID-verified 10% discount.
Full details in our Mattress Firm teacher discount guide.
Full details in our Purple Mattress teacher discount guide.
iRobot: Up To 15% Off, With a Stricter Verification Bar
iRobot gives verified educators up to 15% off Roomba vacuums and Braava mops through ID.me. Verification here asks for more than a school email: a state license or certification number, or employment documentation plus a Social Security number if you’re not state-licensed.
Full details in our iRobot teacher discount guide.
Wellness Mats: 10%, Not the 25% Other Sites Claim
Wellness Mats gives K-12 teachers and college professors 10% off, confirmed directly on the company’s own page. Verification is manual, by contacting the company directly, not through ID.me or SheerID.
Full details in our Wellness Mats teacher discount guide.
Leesa: $75 Off, No Code Needed
Leesa gives teachers, faculty, and staff $75 off a mattress purchase, verified through ID.me at checkout, no promo code to hunt for. Studio and Kids mattresses are excluded.
Full details in our Leesa Mattress teacher discount guide.
World Market: The Discount Is Gone, But Cash Back Isn’t
World Market’s teacher discount program has been discontinued; its current coupons page carries no teacher or educator program at all. A real cash-back route exists instead through Fluz, which carries a dedicated gift-card listing for World Market.
Full details in our World Market teacher discount guide.
Joann: Closed For Good
Joann no longer exists as a retailer. It closed its last physical stores permanently after a second Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and Michaels bought only the brand name and intellectual property. Joann’s old teacher-discount page now redirects to Michaels’ own teacher discount, which is the real place to look if you used to shop Joann for classroom crafts and fabric.
Q&A
Q: Why do Home Depot and Lowe’s count as a discount here if there’s no percentage off?
A: Because the tax exemption is real money saved on a real, common teacher expense (classroom supplies bought with school funds), even though it isn’t the same shape as a personal percentage off.
Q: Is the Container Store’s Rakuten cash back the same as a teacher discount?
A: No, it’s open to any shopper. It’s included here because it’s the only real way to save at this merchant now that the teacher-specific program is gone.
Q: Why include Joann if it’s closed?
A: Because several other lists still advertise a live Joann teacher discount, and a reader searching for it deserves the real answer, plus where to go instead.
Q: Why are some entries grouped together, like Maytag and Whirlpool?
A: Because they run the identical program under the same parent company, so treating them as one finding rather than two separate ones is the honest read, not a shortcut.
More Information:
Every entry above was checked directly at the merchant’s own site, not copied from another roundup. Terms change, so confirm the current rate before a large purchase.
