I had to go to the Missing Cashback screen on the Help page and submit my confirmation email details. It was theoretically approved and is currently Pending. This happens to me much more often with Rakuten than it used to, I just try and watch to make sure the cashback is registered and I request it if not. As far as I can recall, I haven’t had anything rejected when I make the manual request.

@mrvietnam said in Prior FRESH PASS Members (Acme/Alb/Safeway, etc) email offer for 50% off for a year, $10mm with 12x$5 credits ex 12/10:

Anyone get the $10 cash backl from Rakuten, 15 hours later I am not seeing anything tracking. I guess if I don’t see the $10 tracking in the next two weeks I can just cancel for a full refund as long as I don’t use the $5 off $5 for this month.

Nothing yet, but I"m going to give it a few days, and then if it doesn’t show up I’ll contact support.

@my4mainecoons
Thanks for the information about the clearance sections in Shaw’s. I have Safeway here, and I haven’t noticed a clearance section per department but I’ll take a closer look.

I have a stash of butter in my freezer as well, but I haven’t seen any decent sales/free butter in a while and I’m always looking to stock up on things like that. Thanks again for all the detail.

@my4mainecoons said in Prior FRESH PASS Members (Acme/Alb/Safeway, etc) email offer for 50% off for a year, $10mm with 12x$5 credits ex 12/10:

I’m paying with $200 prepaid Visa from Staples (no activation fee, 5% Chase Ink) which will be empty when it comes time to renew in a year. I liked having staggered expiration dates so I’m getting one a week.

Interesting. I tried that, with both a Visa and MC from Staples, and both were rejected, saying it only takes credit or debit cards (despite these being supposedly debit cards). Had to use a regular credit card. I’ll just have to make sure I cancel in time next year.

I haven’t ever seen dairy clearanced at my store. Is it just tagged in the usual space, or do they move it elsewhere?

I signed up for FreshPass today, and Rakuten said they give $10 cash back for FreshPass yearly membership. Hopefully that will come through, it didn’t say a minimum cost.

The stores near me always have some flower bouquets for $5, so last year I was getting those once a month (they can last a few weeks). So just for that this is worth it for me, even if I don’t get any other benefit. I was hoping the Amex offer would work on this to make it better, but unfortunately it’s on the full price.

I found it in my account under coupons, not KC (also in the banner in the email I deleted this morning).
Thanks for the heads up!

I held on to my POTS phone line for a long time, mainly because I didn’t like the idea of having no phone during a power outage. I’ve had rare occasions when the power was out for days at a time, so cellphones would also go out in that situation. They charged me an arm and a leg to keep that going, and when I moved, I finally gave in since I was able to get much better internet service and the phone for a pretty small add-on fee. I don’t love that it will go out when there’s no power, but I put it on a UPS battery backup (along with my internet, so that shouldn’t go out immediately either). I really don’t know how long that will last in an outage, although I supposed there are ways to figure that out.

Ugh this was how I’ve been getting rid of the last amounts on my prepaid gift cards, by loading them to my balance. It was a great way to zero them out, whatever small amount that was left.
Thanks for the heads up.

@c3 said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

@hbg1 said in Staples rewards changing in February, 2024-Changes unknown.:

I recycled last week but it sounds like it’s definitely worth trying again since the offer is still showing in my app.

It’s not “still showing”. It’s a new offer that started this week.
Oh right, I forgot that. But it’s still unusual that they are allowing multiple recycling in one month. Not that I’m complaining.