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@my4mainecoons said in Albertson's & Sister Chains (Acme/Shaws/etc) Buy $75 in many popular GC's in store, get $15 off $15+ Grocery Voucher June 6-19 only (FATHERS DAY):

@mistercheap SCO is my friend for $5 transactions.
Having bought so many gc and earned 4x j4u now I have to figure out how to use $20/$20’s.

I have no objection to doing the $5/5 deal when it comes around again. That’s why I just did 3 deals this go round. I can manage to spend the 3 x $15 pretty easily bet. now and 6/26, but didn’t want to have 5 or 8 of them at $15/15.

I noticed no points have credited yet to my account for the GC’s yesterday, says allow to 48 hours to update. If they don’t show, I’ll contact C/S.

@my4mainecoons said in Albertson's & Sister Chains (Acme/Shaws/etc) Buy $75 in many popular GC's in store, get $15 off $15+ Grocery Voucher June 6-19 only (FATHERS DAY):

@mistercheap I have to find fillers to spend $10 in a transaction, $15 would be even harder. Between the gift card offer $/$ and FreshPass I’ve probably spent <$15/month additional on groceries in 2025.
Since they’re good for several weeks I’d look at the upcoming week’s ad to plan when to use the $/$'s.

yes, that’s the plan. I should be okay with the long window. Hoping for some IB/Fetch offers to monetize part of the $15/15’s. Also, as you mentioned, you can only redeem one at a time on groceries. So trying to spend 9x $5 ones gets time consuming. Every few weeks they run a 3/$14 coke 12pack 12oz can sale, hoping for that.

@mrvietnam said in Albertson's & Sister Chains (Acme/Shaws/etc) Buy $75 in many popular GC's in store, get $15 off $15+ Grocery Voucher June 6-19 only (FATHERS DAY):

@mistercheap You can split it up for 3 merchants and redeem for $25 each. That is no problem.

Great, just back, got $225 in various types of (purple and dark grey). In addition to AMZ, good stores for me include Chewy/Petsmart/Southwest Air/Subway/Lowes and some others. Very pleased. My expiration is 6/26 so far more than 7 days. I’ll use them strategically. I understand your rationale for $5/5, but since you can only get once per trans, would take forever doing 10 transactions for $250 GC’s total. $15 is manageable for me at a time, especially given the 21 days window.

From time to time Albertsons gift cards used to go on sale at Fetch for reduced points, but I haven’t seen those sales for a while now. Wonder if they will ever return? It is probably not best to bank points for too long as points could get devalued again at any time without notice.

@mistercheap You can split it up for 3 merchants and redeem for $25 each. That is no problem.

@my4mainecoons said in Albertson's & Sister Chains (Acme/Shaws/etc) Buy $75 in many popular GC's in store, get $15 off $15+ Grocery Voucher June 6-19 only (FATHERS DAY):

@MrVietnam how does the cashier know what kind of card you’re swiping?
@MISTERCHEAP I was just saying that using Chase Ink for prepaid Visa/MC gc to buy gc at Acme gets you the 5% back when its not the one quarter per year that Discover offers 5% back. I buy the VC/MC for anticipated expenses like dental visits, car insurance, quarterly health insurance and major purchases. Having 3 windows replaced this summer ($12K) and will buy prepaids to use at the lumber yard. IDK when it happened but the Chase 5% spending cap went from $15K to $25K a year! I keep 2-3 $200 prepaids on hand for unexpected bills.

I’ve posted about these deals and Zillions cards several times, not sure why only now it’s being discussed.😉 I prefer the smaller deals like $5/$5 for buying $25 gc and $10/$10 for buying $50. Sometimes I stacked the $5/$5 or $10/$10 with a Fresh Pass $5/$5.

In Feb. I bought $25 PetSmart and Chewy (via Zift Zillions) gc for $5/$5’s. In March bought 8@$50 Lowe’s gc and 2@$50 Zillions cards. Bought a stove from Lowe’s to use up the gc, had 10 @$10/$10 to use in 2 weeks. In April I bought 8@$25 Zillions cards (Ace HW) and have used half of those already. The rest will be used in July. Always purchased on Sat or Sunday for 4x points. Always paid with prepaid Visa/MC from Staples for 5% Chase Ink.

@my4mainecoons what piqued my interest in the Zillions was the ability to redeem for Amazon. It’s hard to find Supermarkets that even carry AMZ cards these days as they view them as a competitor where groceries are concerned. They opened an Amazon Fresh grocery story near me 8 months ago that I’ve been going to quite often and can pay with the AMZ GC’s there. Also for PRIME renewals and other stuff bought on AMZ. Just can’t buy non AMZ with AMZ GC’s.

A question for you on these ZILLION cards say $75 is loaded on one card, do you have to redeem for one merchant card for $75 or can you split it up into 3/$25 redemptions? TIA

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@mrvietnam said in 100% back in FETCH pts wyb TWO Pepsi Zero 20 oz at Walmart B&M (reg. $2.48 each) | Ends 6/8:

I also have two more 100% back deals on my Fetch account. One is for 2 free Kinder chocolate singles and the other is for Pedigree Drizzlers dog food (limit 3). You have to keep in mind that free is not really free. When cashing out on Fetch for a $50 gift card you will pay 10% in points extra to get that $50 gift card, so these 100% back items are cheap, but not free (expecially if you have to pay a bottle fee and sales tax like you do here in CA). I wish Fetch offered you to cash out for $100 gift cards, too.

A lot of these 100% items go quickly, so even if it says the rebate is good for a few days or weeks, I highly recommend going to get it right away. The rebates for the nicer items often go fast. I remember about a month ago Fetch offered 100% back on 3 packs of Best Foods mayonnaise at Sam’s Club and you could do the deal several times. The deal was supposed to be valid for about a week. I looked for the deal before going to Sam’s Club about two days into it and it was already not available anymore.

agreed on the 100% back in points, which is why I titled the post that way. the op is copy/pasted from another site and they say ‘free’ but I know better, I’ll have to edit the op.

most decent $50 GC are priced in the 53-55,000 points range. so 8.5-10% devaluation of points. I’ve never understood why Fetch feels compelled to do that. I can understand on the prepaid Visa type cards, but if I choose to cash out for a GC on Ibotta, it’s straight $ for $ on merchant cards. It’s a little shady IMO and they aren’t very transparent about how they come up with these ‘prices’ for GC’s. I mean Acme/Alb are 54,500 for $50? come on.

@my4mainecoons said in Albertson's & Sister Chains (Acme/Shaws/etc) Buy $75 in many popular GC's in store, get $15 off $15+ Grocery Voucher June 6-19 only (FATHERS DAY):

@mistercheap IDK if you have a Chase Ink. I buy the $200 prepaid gc when there’s no activation fee. Get 5% back. Use those gc to buy GC at the supermarket year round.

I use prepaid gc for anything that’s not giving me at least 5% back. Top Cashback doesn’t allow prepaid cards to be used on gc purchases.

Discover also has the 5% Grocery promo right now, using that to pay, getting tomorrow when the 4x points kicks in.

PS, yes @my4mainecoons I do have Chase Ink. Always leery of sitting on $100’s if not $1000’s of dollars of prepaid cards. But it’s a good suggestion if you’re not adverse to going that route.

@marvomatic said in Albertson's & Sister Chains (Acme/Shaws/etc) Buy $75 in many popular GC's in store, get $15 off $15+ Grocery Voucher June 6-19 only (FATHERS DAY):

Albertson’s includes Safeway, as one of the companies where I live, in CA.

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