Discover released their Q4 2015 bonus categories. This year it will include: Amazon, department stores, and clothing stores.Â
These categories are almost identical to the Q3 2015 categories, except that the Q3 Home Improvement category is being replaced in Q4 with clothing stores.
Presumably any clothing store will be included here, including small time clothing shops which are coded as clothing; we’ll have to wait for more details to be released on this.
Remember also that many of us signed up for the double cashback offer which will get us a full 10% back on these categories.
The big hit here is that in all previous years, Q4 had online shopping included in the cashback category, a category which was very easy to max out on. This years categories a nice, but not quite as good as the online shopping option.
We wrote previously how it’s possible to make use of the Department Stores category (both Q3 & Q4) by purchasing gift cards or merchandise at Sears.com and going through the Discover portal for an extra 10% cashback along the way. The official end-date of the 10% offer at sears.com is August 31; the added portal cashback will only work for Q4 if they decide to extend the offer past that date. Let’s hope they do!
