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Old Sep 4, 2015 | 4:37 pm
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Join Date: Jul 2010
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Originally Posted by air360
That's only partially correct. Kroger points (fuel) are not earned on variable GC or Kroger GC. They are earned when you drain the GC buying fixed value cards or other retail GC. The best and simplest way to do this is to simply buy a Kroger $200 gift card directly from the gas station (They stock the actual store cards inside the gas station cubicle) using a chase freedom (5x points right now) or ink (2x) and then go inside and get 2 fixed value $100 cards (fixed value earnes rewards). Go through self checkout and swipe your two cards and the total will be 211.90. Pay 200 with the Kroger GC you got and the the remaining 11.90 fee with anything else. You should get 800 pts which is $28 saved on 35ga - although actually a little less at $16.10 after subtracting the fees...but still worth it to me.
Repeat tomorrow if so desired.
You can also do those 50 point surveys to reach 1000 points. If you earn 990 points, you basically have wasted 90 points because Kroger rounds down when redeeming points.
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