MilesBuzz! - United Mileage for groceries

Those of you with fresh values cards from Dominicks, or the equivalent from US Safeway (excluding Alaska), Pak'nSave, Vons and Pavilions stores with 125 miles for every $250 spent until 12/31/00. Excluded are liquor, fluid dairy (this one I can't understand), tobacco, stamps, gifts certs, event ticks amusement park passes, lottery tickets, commuter passes, prescriptions, gasoline.... Mainly, and plainly groceries!

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DtG

I beleive that "fluid dairy" is a technical word for milk.

Dairy is regulated by your State Dairy Association. The state must approve any discounts on milk that might undercut the production of federally funded milk suppliers.

I have a fresh values card with Smith's in Las Vegas. Does that count too?

Milk in certain states is regulated (California being prime) where it cannot be sold below cost.

I have not seen anything about this with Von's Club...how do you go about getting the 125 miles? Do they tear off a coupon from the register after the computer has determined that you've just gone above another $250 in purchases?

I shop at Dominicks and have never seen anything regarding this promotion. Is it new?

Is there a way to track your "balance" to see how close you are? how do the miles post?

Charles

There are a couple of threads about this on the United board that contain a lot of the details. One is titled something like Safeway miles gone?

This promo started as a test in Colorado last year and expanded to Safeway and other stores yesterday. Southern California stores come on line in March. It's tied to your supermarket savings card and you have to fill out a new application at the store adding your MP number. They automatically credit the miles everytime your qualifying purchase totals reach $250. Check out the United board for more info.

See: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum50/HTML/001340.html

Hey that is what we need.. DOUBLE COUPONS and MILES http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif LOL! I think that in time merchants will get at least 1 cent less of our money for every dollar we spend. But think about it.. buy at the store with AMEX and get alot of miles for eating http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

This was in yesterdays ad paper that comes with our newspaper and it said it started yesterday. Thanks for explaining why milk is not included. The insert had a fresh card application. I will go to the customer service counter and let them help me. I wonder if my dominicks card will work in these other stores when I travel. Yes they keep the tally for you and it shows up on your receipt.

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DtG

DGordon -- don't know about Dominicks, but the Safeway card (ours is in AZ) works fine for us in California and Hawaii...

In Eugene and Roseburg, a two-page insert was in the local newspaper explaining in detail all the rules and instructions. If you had a Safeway card, and/or a UAL MP #, and how to go about registering. I've used my Safeway card from Roseburg in Kauai, Hawaii and California.

Some of the Safeways don't accept AMEX, so I'll use my MP visa. And I rarely, if ever, have bought any of the excluded items at Safeway. Allergic to milk, don't gamble, no bus system, and only beer and wine are sold in grocery stores in Oregon (you have to go to the state liquor store for the hard stuff). And with all the microbreweries, and quality wineries in Oregon...

It's groceries.
Too bad Safeway wasn't more like Fred Meyers, with one-stop shopping! I could rack up a lot more miles.

Linda

[This message has been edited by Ling (edited 02-03-2000).]

This is very sad. Even though I would do almost anything for miles, why would anybody go out of their way for 150 miles? And true you might be spending the $250 anyways (which is a lot of groceries), but how can you get excited about 150 miles? I earned over 5,000 miles today just on an LA-NY flight. 150 is rounding!

I just saw the first commercial on TV for this promo. I'm in the Chicago area where we have Dominicks. Coincidentally, it was only about a half hour after stumbling upon this thread!

Neal

It's 125, rather than 150, but it's no different than charging small amounts on your credit card and saying it's only 5 miles. It all adds up, and if you are short 1000 miles, you can't get your ticket. If you shop at these places anyway, then it's free miles. I wish it were American, but at least I do have a MP account with about 25K

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DtG

Safeway has all the details at their website:
http://www.safeway.com/united/frameset.html

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There was a big thing in the United Premier Update...They are calling it Grocery Miles (sm).

For Vons, Pavillions customers, they are not joining until 3/15/00. It states..

"Once you spend $250 - all shopping trips combined - you receive 125 Mileage Plus miles."

"Mileage accural not available on restricted items: Liquor Department items, fluid dairy products, tobacco, postage stamps, gift certificates, event tickets, amusement park passes, ski tickets, fishing/game liceneses, lottery tickets, money orders,etc..etc.."

why would anybody go out of their way for [125] miles?Anybody who has to ask that isn't familiar with the people on this board http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif!

Seriously, though, I always shop at Safeway anyway - they're the cheaper of the two major stores near me. So I'll be getting the bonus just for doing what I'm already doing. Not bad, in my book.

As far as getting to the $250 threshold, if it works like their prior $250 promotions (which garnered 5% off coupons), this counts your purchases before discounts. For example, today I bought $20 worth of food that was on Safeway's specials for $14 total; I'm expecting that I'm $20 towards the threshold. I don't know why they do it this way, but I'm not about to complain!