Chase Ultimate Rewards 10% Discount on Safeway, CVS & More Giftcards

April 3, 2020

22 Comments

by William Charles

Contents

1 The Offer
2 Our Verdict

The Offer

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Chase Ultimate Rewards is offering a 10% discount on numerous gift card brands for points redemption. This includes the following brands:
- Safeway
- Hulu
- CVS

Our Verdict

Most people will get better value by transferring to a travel partner, in addition a lot of these gift cards are often on sale for a discount greater than 10% so note that attractive of a redemption.

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Robert Cobbert (@guest_951534)

April 4, 2020 00:58

#951534

Anyone know if the Safeway gift cards work at all of the “Safeway family” of stores?

RM (@guest_951542)

April 4, 2020 01:24

#951542

Robert Cobbert

Robert Cobbert Yes. I have personally used Safeway gift cards at numerous Albertsons-owned stores all over the country.

Eric (@guest_951619)

April 4, 2020 09:26

#951619

Robert Cobbert

It’s actually “Albertsons” gc, not Safeway. If you look at the picture Will provided it is good at all of the stores (Acme, Safeway, etc.).

lilurbanachiever (@guest_951482)

April 3, 2020 22:56

#951482

Just saw that $5 off $50 at CVS is back on my Chase checking debit card. Might be helpful for some folks.

Jay - ⒿⒶⓨ 🙈 🙉 🙊 (@guest_951437)

April 3, 2020 21:34

#951437

Question:

Does anyone know if you can use a Safeway/Albertsons giftcard to purchase a VGC in store?
(does the POS system allow it)

Celia (@guest_951441)

April 3, 2020 21:38

#951441

Jay - ⒿⒶⓨ 🙈 🙉 🙊

It isn’t hard coded to prevent it. I’ve used partial ones when buying VGC. Best to mix in some groceries.

Jay - ⒿⒶⓨ 🙈 🙉 🙊 (@guest_951446)

April 3, 2020 21:48

#951446

Celia

Thx. Too bad Chase is $100 max per GC.

Celia : when you say ‘partial ones’, does that mean you swipe the giftcard first, it drains it automatically, and then you can pay the rest with another payment method? TIA… 🙂

Celia (@guest_951460)

April 3, 2020 22:24

#951460

Jay - ⒿⒶⓨ 🙈 🙉 🙊

Yes, that’s what I meant. 🙂

I use my Amex Lowe’s 10% offer to buy Amazon gift card and then buy Safeway gift cards from Amazon. So I tend to have a lot of lower denomination ones. I don’t like to risk do a ton of swipes and draw attention.

ieatdogfood (@guest_951450)

April 3, 2020 21:59

#951450

Celia

Damn, wish my Safeway wasn’t so far away. Amazon sells Safeway GC too. What a perfect positive feedback loop.

Eric (@guest_951620)

April 4, 2020 09:27

#951620

Celia

Have you done this lately? I did it a few times last year with a small Albertsons eGC and it worked. I always did it partial like you.

Celia (@guest_951662)

April 4, 2020 11:25

#951662

Eric

Did it last week with the MasterCard 2 x $100 deal. Used a $25 jewel-Osco card and my discover card. I had a few groceries items as well.

Samosa (@guest_951679)

April 4, 2020 11:59

#951679

Celia

Celia Lucky you! Cashiers in my area always match name on the credit/debit card with my ID, ALL of them. Funny thing is they recognize me by face because I am a regular VGC buyer, but they still perform the name-match. I would love to know if there is a trick to bypass this. TIA.

Celia (@guest_951695)

April 4, 2020 12:15

#951695

Samosa

No trick. They went through a phase of checking ID for all gift card purchases years ago but that’s about it.

I would gladly trade my ability to do it at the grocery store with the ability to liquidate at Walmart with MOs. No can do anywhere around here so I am limited to using for organic spend. 🙂

Eric (@guest_952155)

April 5, 2020 10:45

#952155

Celia

I guess that answers my other question. Since you use it for organic spend you’d rather have a smaller Visa gc, correct?

Eric (@guest_952153)

April 5, 2020 10:44

#952153

Samosa

What area is this?

Celia (@guest_952799)

April 6, 2020 12:25

#952799

Eric

Eric I’m in the Chicago suburbs. When I have a 5% card to use, I usually go for the $500 cards even for organic spend because it is a better deal but in this case the deal was specifically for the 2 x $100 cards. I did do the $500 on the Meijer one of $10 off $150+ when I had to get groceries. But now I am on lockdown. Hopefully more deals will pop up before the end of Q2 for my Chase grocery spend.

Eric (@guest_952152)

April 5, 2020 10:43

#952152

Celia

Isn’t buying a $500 Visa gc a better deal even without the discount?

Eric (@guest_951691)

April 4, 2020 12:11

#951691

Jay - ⒿⒶⓨ 🙈 🙉 🙊

Jay - ⒿⒶⓨ 🙈 🙉 🙊 I think its too much risk if your goal is to pay for a VGCs with Safeway/Albertsons GC. Most of the time the cashiers are checking your payment method as soon as you tell them that you are doing $500 VGCs. I think it is just better to pay the $5.95 fee and be done with it. Last thing I want to be labelled is a scammer.

Eric (@guest_952158)

April 5, 2020 10:47

#952158

Eric

How is using an Albertsons gc to pay being a “scammer”? If they allow it you aren’t scamming anyone. They could easily disable it from working like S&S did 1 or 2 years ago.