Giant Eagle announced a reinventing of their fuel points program. The Fuelperks! program is now called Fuelperks+ and allows redemption for gas as well as for groceries. Additionally, you can now earn fuel points when buying gas for every gallon purchased.
- As before, customers will earn $0.10 in fuel discounts for every $50 spent, but now that $0.10 reward can instead be redeemed as 2% off groceries – up to 20% off any size order with no limit.
- Customers will earn one perk for every dollar spent on groceries and other eligible items inside a Giant Eagle, Market District and GetGo store. Customers will earn two perks for every gallon of fuel pumped at GetGo.
If I’m reading this right, it sounds like if you were to spend $500 on groceries thus accruing $1 in rewards, you can then either use them for $1 off up to 30 gallons of gas – a max $30 value – or get 20% off any size grocery order; if you have a large grocery order of, say, $1,000, you’d land up getting $200 off that order.
I love the shift to allow gas rewards go toward groceries (there was one other grocery chain that did this in the past couple years as well, maybe it was Safeway) since it removes the highly capped nature of gas rewards. Different people have varying amounts of gas usage, but groceries is a fairly constant need for everyone.
Hat tip to reader EastSide BK via wtae.com
Just got this email and was very confused about the “new” part. In my market, they have had the fuelperks+ branding out for over a year and you could redeem points for groceries at the stores in my area. Self checkouts would ask at the end if you wanted to redeem your perks for $x.xx off your total or save for later. It does seem like they increased the max basket size from the test run (I believe it was $100 discount limit before, but now the max basket size is 10k). Just looking back through my emails from Giant Eagle I have emails showing the 10% off groceries or 50¢ gas for downloading the app back in Jan 2018.
Side note: Clicking on the announcement link in the post above, if you log in and give them your avg. grocery spend and tank size, they will load 50 perks to your account instantly.
Redemption Exclusions:
Discounts cannot be applied toward the purchases of any type of gift cards, telecom products, alcohol or tobacco products (except where permitted by law), price-controlled milk products (PA only), kerosene, Visa prepaid reloadable cards, any prescriptions including third party insurance or government programs such as Medicare, Tricare, Medicaid or PACE, lottery tickets, postage stamps, money orders, MoneyGram®, money transfer transactions, Redbox, amusement or entertainment tickets, Market District restaurant purchases, Market District Cooking School classes and wine dinner tickets, copy or fax machine service, delivery charges, fundraising activities, donations, returned check service fees, and other items prohibited by law.
I found a GE key chain card on the ground and about every 2 months I scan it and it has 30-50 cents off. Between that and the free weekly item, I dont shop there anymore, too expensive.
Uh. That sounds a lot like theft (unless you’re not implying that you actually redeem the perks for yourself, which was how I read it).
You can drop the card in a mailbox and it will be returned to the owner.
We had one of our cards go missing and someone stole our fuel points. Not cool. We ended up getting a new card immediately since I am not interested in subsidizing someone else.
There was some unpublished hidden option. I was at GE customer service once for something and the lady there saw I have some fuelperks expiring and reminded me to use them. I told her unfortunately I don’t have a vehicle for that. She instead offered me to redeem for a $5 off on my next grocery purchase. I don’t know much more detail about it (how much point she redeemed, etc).
I used the unpublished benefit a few times when I couldn’t us all my fuel points that would expire at the end month. You could redeem every $0.50 worth of fuel point for $5.00 worth of Giant Eagle groceries, and it would max out at $25.00 off ($2.50 worth of fuel points). The conversion from fuel point to the grocery coupon could only happen at the customer service desk. This was essentially a $25.00 off coupon that could be used towards free groceries.You could redeem up to 2 coupons per day, not matter the total amount. I would try to make the total just over $25.00 to maximize the coupon. I would consider this change a devaluation since it is no longer possible to get free groceries.
I’m in their geographic market. I’m sure it will be great for a lot of people, but I don’t anticipate a lot of benefit personally. The vast majority of our groceries are from Costco, Walmart, and Aldi due to Giant Eagle being a generally expensive grocery store. I can’t recall ever having a Giant Eagle grocery bill over $150 that didn’t involve gift cards (which I’m sure are excluded from the 20% discount). I’m one of the people that always gets the full 30 gallons when redeeming my perks for gas.
Where there is possibly some benefit is for when you go overboard on your earning (like during gift card promotions). Fuelperks are good for 2 months plus the rest of the month in which you earned them (so a max of 3 months and a min of 2 months+1 day). So if you end up with too many to redeem for gas, it’s nice to have another option rather than having them expire unused.
Yup, same here. Mostly shop at trader joe’s or use discounted whole foods gift cards (probably more expensive than GE, but certain items can’t get anywhere else e.g. beyond burger).
Years ago GE had a hybrid program that earned ‘foodperks’ at the pump and fuel perks when buying groceries. I’m glad to see this new change, except I was saving my fuel perks so as not to ‘waste’ them on a low value redemption… ultimately they expired, which normally I never let happen lol oops
This is great. I’ve always been pretty pissed about how these programs were setup solely to benefit drivers of gas cars. I mean, it’s a grocery store, why shouldn’t I be able to use my rewards on groceries?
You could call customer service and get $5 off groceries, BUT the big plus size of ourchase for use didn’t matter.
Yeah, it was Safeway.