I've hit this with my last two purchases at CVS with an AMEX. I thought it might be because I bought multiple cards so I tried individual cards (<$500) with the same issue. Once with a prepaid GC and another with a new Blue Cash card I just activated. I called AMEX and they said the transaction didn't even hit the card (can you even get a fraud alert on a prepaid card???).

Is CVS blocking VRs with AMEX now?

Bought $5k fine yesterday with Amex GCs

Haha! While I feel for the clerk (my first job was in retail, and I worked as a CSR at a university while between programs), I never understood why some clerks seem to take things so seriously. It's a crap job at crap pay for a crap company. I was a minimum wage cash register jockey once, and during training the HR person said something like "if you see someone shoplifting or you get robbed, just give them the money and call Asset Protection as soon as you safely can. Don't risk your life trying to stop them." I said "OK," but I was thinking "For $6.75 an hour, do you really think I'm going to risk my life?" :P

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Gotta love it...

Wow. You can also go out and hold up a bank for some extra cash as well. Apparently some people don't understand you can't just take stuff from a store without paying for it. Responding to the quote not saying F0xx was advocating this!

I agree. Some of these cashiers don't know what money laundering is and for some reason think this VR buying and such is shady simply because they don't understand it's purpose. I had one say, "I'm sure you're not money laundering but I need to see id..." I said, "now if I wasn't going to use my credit card to purchase this, but instead wanted to use a bunch of cash that I acquired through illegal means now that would be money laundering, but I'm using my credit card and therefore will have to pay this bill when it is due, right?" Even after that they still don't understand. One finally asked me "why do people buy these?" and I explained that it helps meet spending requirements on cc in order to get points for an airline ticket for example. It all clicked for them and now they see why.

After months of reading.......hopefully I am ready for MS . Went to my closest CVS and they only had "MyVanilla Card"........not Vanilla Reload Network. Did my "senior" brain miss something? Does any one know the difference? Can it be used like the reload card? Planing on loading my new BB. I did not buy it! Grandma Steppie

No, MyVanilla Debit Cards (MVD) can be reloaded with Vanilla Reloads (VRs), just like Bluebird, but you can't use MVDs to reload a Bluebird outside of going to Walmart and doing a PIN transaction.

Thanks Majuki!

this isn't new, many people have posted this, it must be a random thing since I have never seen it on my receipt.

For whatever reason they cried, who cares, but this crap of throwing around words they have no idea what they mean just got to me...

CVSs near me are getting used to Serve now and really helping customers. It seems good for their business as it does bring more people into the stores and I see VR buyers also buying other things in the store. Win-win for everybody.

True, buying a little candy for myself and getting $1.00 back is a nice treat for my VR runs.

I've gone to my local CVS twice now with 2 different cashiers and both allowed me to buy Vanilla Reloads with my Citi Executive card! My first CVS (the one closest to my house... of course) did not allow me to. However, the 2nd CVS is in a bigger city and they must be use to it. The 2nd guy knew about swiping my ID. They are allowing me to purchase $2k per day. That's fine by me!

Sitting pretty happy now that I know I'm going to meet my $10k spending limit for my AAdvantage card :D