Discover Second Quarter 5% Cash Back Categories Available For Sign Up & How To Hit

The rotating 5% categories for the Discover it cards are now available for sign up, remember if you don’t sign up you will not receive 5% cash back on purchases on these categories:

  • Home improvement
  • Furniture stores
  • Bed Bath & Beyond®

Click here to sign up for the second quarter categories

5 cash back bonus 2nd quarter

Quarter two runs from April 1st till June 30th. You can get 5% on up to $1,500 in purchases each quarter (maximum of $75 cash back from the 5% categories per quarter) before it falls to a flat 1% cash back on all purchases. Remember that the $1,500 maximum applies to all of these categories, so you cannot spend $1,500 at home improvement stores, $1,5000 at furniture stores and $1,500 at bed bath and beyong stores to get $225 for the quarter.

[Read: Discover now offers a secured version of Discover it]

Tactics For Reaching The $1,500 Maximum

Each quarter we give you a few tips on how to reach $1,500 spend with the Discover it & discover more cards.

Get 5% On Gas Purchases By Buying Gift Cards

For those who don’t have a good earning credit card for gas purchases, it’s possible to get 5% cash back on all gas purchases by purchasing Hess gift cards from Lowe’s (which counts as a home improvement store).

Get 5% On All Amazon Purchases

Lowe’s also sells amazon gift cards, which will also allow you to get 5% cash back on all purchases.

Get 5% On Any Of The Following Retailers By Purchasing Gift Cards From Lowes

Lowes has gift cards from the following retailers (props to Dans Deals for this list):

  • AMC Theaters
  • AT&T GoPhone
  • Aeropastle
  • Amazon
  • Applebees
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Bass Pro Shop
  • Bath & Body Works
  • Bed Bath & Beyond/Buy Buy Baby
  • Boost Mobile
  • BP
  • Build-A-Bear
  • Cabela’s
  • Cheesecake Factory
  • Chili’s
  • Claire’s
  • Coldstone Creamery
  • Cracker Barrel
  • Darden Restaurants
  • Fandango
  • Finish Line
  • Foot Locker
  • Game Stop
  • Gap Inc (Gap, Banana, Old Navy, Athleta, Piperlime)
  • Golfsmith
  • Ihop
  • iTunes
  • JCPenney
  • Jiffy Lube
  • Jo-Ann Fabric
  • Justice
  • Kohl’s
  • Lane Bryant
  • Lowe’s
  • MLB.com
  • Macy’s
  • Marriott
  • Marshalls
  • Michael’s
  • Nascar Superstore
  • Nike
  • Nordstrom
  • OfficeMax
  • Olive Garden
  • Outback Steakhouse
  • PFChang’s
  • Panera
  • Petco
  • Petsmart
  • Pizza Hut
  • Red Lobster
  • Red Robin
  • Regal Cinemas
  • Ruby Tuesday
  • Sephora
  • Shell
  • Southwest
  • SpaFinder
  • Sports Authority
  • Staples
  • Starbucks
  • Subway
  • TGIFriday
  • TJMaxx
  • T-Mobile Prepaid
  • Tracfone
  • Verizon Prepaid
  • Virgin Mobile
  • Xbox

Here’s a list of other stores that do/don’t count as 5% rotating for this quarter

  • Ikea does count
  • Sears.com applicances does not count

How are you going to reach the $1,500 maximum spend in the second quarter? Let us know in the comments. 

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