[Expired] Kroger: 4x Fuel Points on Visa/MC and Third Party Gift Cards, Also 4x Happy Gift Cards Online

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• I haven't done MS before but would there be a play here buying fixed value $100 visa gift cards and trying to turn those into a MO at WM? Using the points for fuel as an offset for the gift card fee? Would it not be very cost effective due to the $100 limit?

  • Thanks for replies, looking to hit a $6k minimum spend bonus in a cost effective manner not necessarily, may give this a whirl just to test the local WM waters

    • Can you use fuel points for grocery credit ?

      • I don't believe you can
        Could get a 15gal refill and get about $6 out of each $100 gift card, so close to breakeven on cost (MO would be extra ~80 cents)

  • I do this, but with amazon gift cards that have 0 fee. I also maximize the discount by also filling up 4x5 gallon gas cans.

    in theory, you could do the same with VGCs, but those $5.95 activation fees kill any meaningful profit

    • That's an interesting idea, I was also considering delta GC and using it toward company travel later in the year

  • $100 gift card max. to purchase/ 40 cents off per gallon/ activation cost/ wm mo cost, make this not worth it, sorry RC.....................C.E.

    • 40 cents off per gallon in points with $100 Visa/MC purchase. Activation fee is $5.95. So, 15 gallon gas purchase to break even.

  • Between maxing out how many fuel points you could need and the hassle of liquidation via MO, most here pay their bills or use for regular non category spend.

• Stack with Amex 10% grocery store offer.

  • oh man i would, but for some reason, Fred Meyer doesn't count as grocery on my amex cards

    • @guest_618768
      If only you had some other angle that would code properly as grocery besides Fred Meyers or Safeway that could be a sweet spot
      ;)

    • Maybe they think it's more of a discount store than grocery. The Freddies generally have much more square footage non-grocery than grocery, like a Walmart Supercenter. Although generally Meijer, the other Fred Meyer-like chain, is coded grocery.

      • yeah, thats what i figured. they do have a lot of non-grocery floorspace. its just a pity, cause i do all my shopping there anyway...but have to go to safeway to use my BCP's 6%

  • wish had the offer as that would have helped offset the vgc fee's cost

• "Usually, every 1000 fuel points will get you a discount of $1 per gallon"

  It's 100 points per $0.10 discount increment, up to $1 max discount per gallon. Any less-than-100 chunk of points left at the end of a month goes to waste.

  "with a 35-gallon limit, a max value of $35 per 1000-points"

  Some stores have reportedly gotten pissed at people filling multiple vehicles/containers on the same discount, FWIW. If you really want to try that, I'd suggest going outside of the fuel center's staffed hours (you can pay at the pump 24/7, if you don't mind the possibility of the receipt not printing with nobody to reprint it). Mine is staffed 7am-10pm, not sure if it's the same everywhere.

  • at my local Fred Meyer fuel station in Oregon, they have to fill all my 5 gallon gas cans for me :D

    so far, no one has gotten pissed...i just tell them its for my very thirsty boat