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The Offer
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Check your Safeway Just4U for a digital coupon to get:
- $15 instant discount when you buy two $100 Mastercard gift cards
- $10 instant discount when you buy two $50 Mastercard gift cards
The Safeway deals are usually at Von’s, Albertson’s, Randall’s, Tom Thumb, Acme, Shaw’s, and Jewel too.
The Fine Print
- Valid until 4/9/19
- LImit 1 per household
Our Verdict
Might be useful if you have an easy way to unload or if you want to rack up grocery spend. Remember to save the offer first to your card before use. You might get fuel points on Visa/MC gift cards or might not. In the past, this has not worked on variable load cards.
Hat tip to reader i.
I used the $100 x 2 offer a few days ago. I checked the app today and it allowed me to add the promo to my account again. Does this mean I should be able to use the offer a second time?
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll add it if I see it.
the offer is definitely not showing up as available to add. I was able to add it and successfully purchase then earlier this week, but my spouse tried to add it to her account today and it’s not showing up as available.
See my above remarks !
Yes, I noticed this on more than one occasion in the past. Add coupon(s) to your account asap, because after a couple of days – even if the expiry date is way later – it will not be possible any longer.
The way it has been working for a 2 week promotion at Safeway/Albertsons in AZ, is that the first week the offer will show, but the second week it will not be available to add to your list. So if you add it to your cart in the first week it will be available until the end date. I have “many” J4U accounts, so I make sure they are all set up by the end of the first week. It has been this way for at least 2 years here.
So I bought 2x$50 and 2x$100 at Acme yesterday and did not get ANY points. The e-coupons came off fine. I’m guessing their 2X point offer for any gift card is over. They did have a sign offering 5X points for Visa cards, which would be great.
BTW I find it amusing that they (and S&S/Giant) advertise the 2X points thing as if you’d normally get one point per dollar spent when the default is actually 0X.
Sorry, didn’t pay attention. If I see the sign again I’ll take a picture.
how do we redeem the reward pts at the register? Do we tell the cashier which particular reward (like $5 or $10 off) to use? Thx
It’s automatic, if you have selected a reward in your J4U, it will apply to your purchase as soon as it can. Last week, I had $36 come off my purchase, which gave me a negative balance, but that confused the cashier and he wouldn’t ring up the rest of my order which were gift cards. Manager didn’t like that they had to give me money back on my purchase, so I asked how to limit the rewards from being used all at the same time. She said that you couldn’t control that.
If you have a $5 and $10 off reward and $11 of groceries, then what might happen is the register prompts the cashier to pay you $4 for your groceries, who then calls over a very confused manager, while all 3 of you spend the next 20 minutes figuring out what occurred. My best advice, buy $15 of groceries.
dee, sounds like we’ve shared a fairly similar experience.
Edit: Lol
if you use self check out, it definitely will spit out cash for you!!!! Therefore, true name “cash machine”! LOL 🙂
Lucky. Our system just wont use a reward if there’s not enough groceries to be covered. So it would only take the $10 reward and leave the $5 for the next purchase.
In our app (Jewel-Osco), we have to select the rewards we want to redeem. For example, if we have 4 rewards available, we can choose to take $5 off purchase or $7 off meat. We have to preselect it before going to the store.
i see, need to choose / click on on a particular reward. Thx Folks
Thanks for the post. I am wondering if Safeway is having a more global issue with points not posting. I didn’t buy any gift cards yesterday. Only groceries and wine. Points showed on the receipt but not in my account. In fact I somehow lost points that I already had. With many people experiencing similar in the past few days, I am guessing they are having technical difficulties. I have an email in to customer service about it.
Any points you earned if they don’t equal 100 or 1 reward are lost at the end of the month. So if you had some points on March 31, it would have reverted to 0 on April 1.
Not a fan of the new system in that regard and there have been major issues with redeeming the coupons over the past week. My points from 3/30 that equaled a reward posted on 4/1.
Hey Celia, thanks yea that explains part of it – still missing over 90 points though in April toward reward number 2. reward number 1 had already posted in March. So you’re right I probably lost a few points toward the next one. and still these new ones were in April and should still be there – almost enough for a second reward. We will see what customer service says, it usually takes them a few days to get back to me. Sounds like a bunch of people here had points disappear so it wouldn’t surprise me if they are having technical difficulties.
You can also call them. I had to in order to fix my Mom’s account. Minimal wait time and pretty good customer service. Might be an option if you get a canned response 🙂
There definitely have been glitches in this new roll out to some stores. Individual stores have been at their wits ends with coupons not coming off, points not posting, etc.
zero reward pts for either fixed or variable GCs in Apr; wonder the pts earnings on GCs posted for last month was a promo or glitch? did any folks get pts for VGC / MCGC purch in Feb & Jan earlier this yr?
if not wanted to preserve pts for further future use, would have bought many more by 3/31
I visited the local Vons and Albertsons and all 3 stores could not get the J4U coupons to automatically check out. I’ve done this and the vgcs deal many, many times so I know the drill – clip the coupon, make sure the store matches the app and checked the boxes. 2 of the stores ended up manually override the discount by the manager. It was quite a hassle. :/
it didn’t work for me either, I made a new just 4 you account and the safeway didn’t recognize the phone number
I was travelling overseas. Safeway does not recognize my account from a different ISP account abroad and only yesterday I tried to load the J4U coupon to my account. However, No Go, regardless the expiry date. So it seems that a digital coupon can only be loaded for a limited amount of time.
newbie question – I can set up a pin number on here right? Looking to purchase to pay for utilities at a grocery store ($1 fee for paying utility bill) but they only accept debit. Do I just need to call to set up pin? Thanks!
Looks like they fixed the fuel points. I got 400 points on the 31st, but on P2 card today I didnt get any fuel awards. Was hoping for a longer run then this.
Yeah dead for me too. On the plus side, I found out that if you buy grocery coupons with the rewards (e.g. $10 off $10), it will discount VGC fees. Walked out with an armful of groceries and a $500 VGC for $503.xx today.
Tim, so ur purch total including the VGC fee was around $13?
Btw, how do we redeem the reward at the register? Do we tell the cashier which particular reward to use? Thx
Has anybody tried the $500 GC to see if they also give fuel points?
There’s a DP confirming that midway through the thread. Post #740978
The rewards points shown on the receipt but no on the account! 🙁
There’s apparently a glitch in the system. I bought regular groceries on 3/30, my receipt shows I gained points, including an additional reward, but my account doesn’t reflect nearly 48 hours later.
Thanks, Celia, it finally shows up! Cheers!
Didn’t work for me. I think some folks had it show rewards on receipt (probably a glitch) but it never hit account and/or didn’t work when checking out groceries.
Maybe only works for card issued by Metabank?
They did for a while, but it looks dead today. Last week I bought a $500 Metabank I got 10 rewards (1000 points), today 0.