March 20, 2024
76 Comments
by Chuck
Kroger now excludes Amazon gift card purchases from earning 4x fuel points on their fuel points coupon deals.
Amazon is a big loss for those in Kroger-land. I’m not sure if they are now excluded from earning the regular 2x earn on gift card purchases, or Amazon gift cards are only excluded from the higher 4x coupon earn rate; they still earn the regular 2x earn rate.
Effective March 20, 2024, Amazon Gift Cards will only receive 2X Fuel Points.
Hat tip to reader Fred
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Joel(@guest_1818609)
March 22, 2024 19:35
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Can you use Target gift cards at Target to buy other gift cards?
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Randy(@guest_1818837)
March 23, 2024 13:05
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Joel
No. Nice try though.
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JasonTX(@guest_1818596)
March 22, 2024 19:02
#1818596
Does anyone know if DraftKings giftcard earns 4x fuel points?? I don’t want to buy target giftcard because I am boycotting target for the outrageous groceries price. They are literally selling 2lb apples for 10 dollars
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Frey(@guest_1818726)
March 23, 2024 01:33
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JasonTX
@jasontx Must be a weird Target, 2 lbs of organic good & gather are 3.19 for me. Highest price I could find was organic honey crisp for 5.29. Outskirts of Chicago.
Target is starting to be lower priced for a lot more things I buy, even over Walmart. I compare shop most items between Target/walmart/walgreens/amazon/local grocery and Target wins out more than half the time.
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Frey
yea i couldn’t believe it. The target at Memorial Mall in Houston, 2lb honeycrisp apples fpr $9.99. I figured prices in wealthy neighborhood are always more expensive. Panera “ValueDuet” is $8.99 at Tomball and Cypress and $6.99 in Houston (that’s 30% greedflation right there). I started going to poor neighborhoods to shop. But the issue is the quality of the people in the poor neighborhoods..i don’t understand why anyone would throw trash everywhere. But that’s the reality of it.
From my experience, Walmart and Sams Club have the best prices. Costco was selling 12 rolls paper towel for $29.99 and Sams is selling it for $16. Nothing beats Sams. But then you go to the parking lot at Sams and Walmart, you get turned off by it because of the beat-up cars and people
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Al(@guest_1818180)
March 22, 2024 01:31
#1818180
$1500 gift card for $48 rewards. That’s really low. At Kroger I can always get $30 rewards from $250 gift card – $1 off 30 gallons of gas.
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Eghost(@guest_1817742)
March 21, 2024 10:01
#1817742
Hmm, this changes my math. I was getting disappointed with Amazon anyway. I’ll have to switch to Target gift cards.
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Randy(@guest_1817768)
March 21, 2024 10:39
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Eghost
and/or $100 Visa and Mastercard if you have Amex Blue Cash Preferred. 6% nearly offsets the fee. It’s my next best play for gas. – Yeah – Target is great too – but I’ll bet its the next to go.
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Luke(@guest_1817727)
March 21, 2024 09:27
#1817727
With $500 VGCs banned and now this, looks like it’s game over. Thank the greedy people who were farming and reselling fuel points.
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Jake(@guest_1817518)
March 20, 2024 20:51
#1817518
This is a bummer but I switched to Jewel (Albertsons) once I realized that they do rewards that take money off your grocery bill instead of having to fill up your gas tank really full to maximize it. I bought $1500 in gift cards a few weeks ago and just “redeemed” the rewards to my account – 2x $20 off $20 grocery orders and 1x $8 off $8 reward. All stackable and automatically get used at register when you enter your phone number. So I paid $1500 for gift cards and I got $48 in free groceries to use over the next two months. Not to shabby and don’t have to worry about having an empty tank or two at the right time.
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Mark(@guest_1817532)
March 20, 2024 21:04
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Jake
Guess what chain Kroger is tryna buy 🙄
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b0ridi(@guest_1817692)
March 21, 2024 07:16
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Jake
Holding that much money in gift cards for a single retailer to get 48/1500 = 3% cash back is a bit risky.
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jesse(@guest_1818465)
March 22, 2024 15:06
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b0ridi
What makes you think they are “holding” the cards for long, or that they are for only one (or for that matter, any) retailer?
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David(@guest_1817512)
March 20, 2024 20:43
#1817512
It’s a big downgrade but still better than the 5x from Amazon Prime Visa.
I can easily get at least 1.5cents/point with Chase UR and for Q124 5x at Kroger would be about 7.5%. With 4X on Amazon GC the return is about 14 on fuel points for a $250GC making it 13.1%, which is 2.6 times of the 5x. With 2X it would be about 10.3%. Of course this only works when Chase has 5x on groceries. Also need to factor in the Prime Visa does have +1 year of extended warranty on things like electronics. So that is a bit of an offset.
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Mark(@guest_1817533)
March 20, 2024 21:05
#1817533
David
I always use Blue Cash Preferred
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bill 8(@guest_1817435)
March 20, 2024 19:25
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I just returned from Ralph’s, not knowing about the 4x Amazon GC exclusion. Mgr didn’t know about this either and comped me 200 points to make up for the 400 I was expecting. Like others this will change things for me & P2 will probably be happy she can refuel when she wants instead of us taking both cars to Shell at the same time.
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Mark(@guest_1817535)
March 20, 2024 21:06
#1817535
bill 8
You can get 50pts once a week for doing a survey on your purchase. Pretty easy via the app.
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RM(@guest_1817567)
March 20, 2024 22:14
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Mark
Mark Have you tried this recently? I think Kroger killed the survey within the last couple of months. Googling “Kroger feedback” no longer gets you to the correct page. And the page I had bookmarked no longer works — you can fill out the survey, but no points appear in your account.
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Fred(@guest_1817603)
March 20, 2024 23:17
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RM
I just earned 50 points a few minutes ago. Easy peasy.
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Fred
Can someone share the link to the survey? I found one online but the website looks shady to me. thanks
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Randy(@guest_1817834)
March 21, 2024 12:48
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JasonTX 🔗
Now that you mention it – it does look a little shady – but its fine:https://8451cx.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3PoB79U0AFELzMy
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Terry(@guest_1817904)
March 21, 2024 14:56
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JasonTX 🔗
Here is the link that I use. It does take you to the url that Randy posted.
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Randy(@guest_1817832)
March 21, 2024 12:46
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Fred
And I did it in VA sometime last week.
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Mark(@guest_1817680)
March 21, 2024 05:25
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RM
Lately I’ve just ben clicking on the survey link in the app.did one a few days ago. With the lower points now, I’ll have to remember to do them every seven days for the 200-250 points per month.
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Mikey(@guest_1817704)
March 21, 2024 08:03
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RM
Surveys are now YMMV. Mine were “blacked out” for 2-3 weeks but recently came back, meaning the points posted instead of nothing.
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Mark
where do you see it in the app Mark? I can’t find it on my Kroger app
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Mark
does anyone know how do get the “time of visit” from the mobile receipt on the app? they don’t show the entry ID, and it also doesn’t have the time so i can’t complete the survey..
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Mark(@guest_1817846)
March 21, 2024 13:10
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JasonTX 🔗
Jason it’s usually in the app on the main screen soon after the shopping trip. Something like “your recent purchase” and there’s a couple of buttons: to view the receipt, and to take a survey.
you can also just grab your paper receipts from now on. You can only take surveys 1x a week but you can go 2-3x in a week and just wait the 7 days in between surveys.
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RM(@guest_1819057)
March 24, 2024 02:33
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JasonTX 🔗
JasonTX 🔗 You can just pick the option that you don’t have a survey ID on your receipt, and just approximate the time of visit. Still works OK.
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Mark(@guest_1817425)
March 20, 2024 19:07
#1817425
Double nooooo: I use Amex BCP for 6% and get 4x on Amazon GCs for $18 off every fill-up. 2x is good but I only need about $200-300 in Amazon GCs per month so that’s not going to get the 1,000 fuel points I need.
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Ravi(@guest_1817419)
March 20, 2024 18:58
#1817419
What if the system don’t enfore the restriction. Perhaps its just a line edit in T&c to discourage. 😊
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Tyler P(@guest_1817642)
March 21, 2024 01:16
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Ravi
I bought an Amazon gift card on 3/20 and only got 2x the fuel points.
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