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The Offer
No direct link, targeted email offer (subject: <your name>, Congratulations! Here’s another Bonus Offer to Earn Additional ThankYou® Points.)
- Use your card to earn 5 ThankYou Points per $1 spent, up to 1,000 points, from 12/01/2020 through 12/31/2020 on eligible purchases you make at:
- Grocery Stores
- Gas Stations
- Drugstores
- Mass Transit & Commuter Transportation Vendors
Others are reporting slightly different categories.
The Fine Print
- This offer will end on 12/31/2020.
- Earnings associated with this program will equal 4 bonus ThankYou® Point(s) per $1 spent on eligible purchases and may overlap with other special offers in which you are currently enrolled.
- Bonus points awarded with this offer are subject to a maximum of 1,000 additional points.
- This offer excludes purchases made at discount stores.
- Grocery Stores, including supermarkets, are classified as merchants that provide a complete line of food merchandise for home consumption. This offer includes convenience stores which are classified as merchants who sell a limited variety of food items. Gas Stations are classified as merchants that primarily sell vehicle fuel for consumer use. Drugstores are classified as merchants that sell prescription and proprietary drugs and nonprescription (over-the-counter) medicines. Mass Transit & Commuter Transportation Vendors are classified as merchants that provide mass passenger transportation including railways and buses, bridge and tunnel fees and temporary parking, but does not include the purchase of Amtrak tickets.
Our Verdict
There’s currently a 5% online offer available to everyone which ends today. This new offer runs December 1 – 31. I got this via email, haven’t yet seen anyone else report it so it might be highly targeted or getting rolled out slowly. Looks like it’s 4x bonus points on top of the regular 1x earn. Max this out with $200 of spend. Not a major deal, but it’s something.
Related Offer: [Targeted] Citi Spending Bonuses: Earn 5x On Selected Categories
The definition of grocery stores seems pretty broad. I unexpectedly got credit for purchases at a few different online vitamin/health food stores (Vitacost, Lucky Vitamin, etc.) that show up in my transaction history as “Merchandise – Misc Food Store, Specialty, Convenience.”
I was originally using these purchase as “online purchases” for the other promo, and I ended up getting this category bonus as well.
Note that this was for my Citi Simplicity that got the offer (by mail) as 5% cash back through 1/31/21 (max $25) in the same categories as in this post (plus restaurants). The letter mentions “curbside pickup and online delivery” under grocery, but I’m still surprised to see these online vitamin/health food stores count.
I got a different offer via U.S. Mail last week:
Use your Citi Rewards World Mastercard to earn 5 ThankYou points per $1 spent, up to 2,500 points, through 12/31/2020 on eligible purchase you make at:
Consumer Electronic Stores
Department Stores
Clothing Stores
Game Stores, Hobby and Toy Stores
yeah, received the “up to 2,500 points” offer
@Chuck- I Think the maximum for this deal is 1000 bonus points- not 1000 total points. So the maximum total spend would be $250, not $200 (Since its 4 bonus pts/dollar).
Thanks for alerting us to this!!
Received this offer on the TY Preferred card but the categories are different:
Shopping
Groceries
Gas
Travel and more!
Offer excludes restaurants, entertainment, cable and streaming purchase
Added a note
Got this on Preferred, 11/21/20 through 1/31/21, for up to 2500 points (so minor change from the above). Same categories. Not really useful to me given the Chase bonuses in play right now.
I got this one too
I received the offer and it appears that there is no enrollment required as in prior offers like this. At least I didn’t see an enrollment link or code in my email. Did anybody get anything different in their email?
Also got this offer, no link to enroll. Didn’t say anything about it being automatic. Confusing.
I got a letter in the mail with a similar cashback version of the offer for Citi Simplicity card. It requires enrollment.
I received this promotion in the mail on Citi Simplicity card. Offer is for 5% back, maximum $25, in the same categories.
+1. Two years in a row now. Year before that it was 5% categories. I think I see why they keep trying to switch me to Rewards+ instead as with the targeted offers and Citi easy deals gift cards I think they lose money on me.