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Jan 19, 2016, 1:27 pm

#1666

I Fly Delta Jets

Join Date: Mar 2002

Posts: 224

Quote:

Originally Posted by knopfler

You hope it is the new policy? Is that a typo? Anyway, there are still plenty of variables stocked up in Collin County (north of Dallas).

Sorry, I meant hope its NOT a new policy.

Jan 19, 2016, 1:33 pm

#1667

wcrhkd

Join Date: May 2005

Location: East Bay, CA

Programs: AA EXP, Marriot LTP, Hyatt Globalist

Posts: 291

Hmmm....bad news at my local Safeway here in the East Bay. I went to my usual store this morning and found a store manager removing Visa GC's from the rack. She showed me her memo, and a quick glance showed variable load Visa's were to be removed. I also saw Amazon gift cards on the list (rather lengthy) to be removed, but I didn't see if it was a certain denomination or variables.

Jan 19, 2016, 1:34 pm

#1668

digitalpop

Join Date: Dec 2014

Posts: 74

Quote:

Originally Posted by I Fly Delta Jets

Didn't find a single variable GC (neither Visa nor MC) on the rack this morning in TX. I only checked one store though, where I had purchased variables before. I hope this is the new corporate policy.

My local Safeway stores run out & stock up on variables all the time. I'm in a heavy-hitting area though, so it's common for me. I'll sometimes grab a bunch un-activated when they are in-stock, just to have for a rainy day they are out of stock.

So no, I doubt this is any sort of a new policy.

Jan 19, 2016, 2:03 pm

#1669

ntjane66

Join Date: Sep 2009

Posts: 144

Quote:

Originally Posted by wcrhkd

I live in NOVA and found my manager doing the same thing. He was busy helping other customers and I found a box he left near the gc. I was able to pull out 5K of vgc. The rest on top were amazon variable gc. All the visa, mc and amazon variables were pulled. I think he also included itunes variables. I tried another store later in the day and found the racks empty. I did find some on a smaller rack that was missed so I bought some more. I do not understand the logic of pulling the variable amazon. We could just load up on the smaller denominations.

Jan 19, 2016, 2:45 pm

#1670

janetdoe

Join Date: Jul 2009

Location: DFW

Programs: AS, BA, AA

Posts: 3,670

Quote:

Originally Posted by I Fly Delta Jets

Didn't find a single variable GC (neither Visa nor MC) on the rack this morning in TX. I only checked one store though, where I had purchased variables before.

This may be the same data point, (PM me with your location and we can compare) but I saw them pulling variable cards last night and asked the manager what was going on, and he said they had just gotten a memo that the store was losing money on these and he had to pull them. The way he said it, I was under the impression their particular store was losing money because they had extremely high volume; I wasn't sure if this was chainwide or location-specific. I haven't had the heart to go to another store today to check it out.

~~I don't know if it is interesting or scary that Safeway owns something like a 96% share in Blackhawk.~~

Last edited by janetdoe; Jan 19, 2016 at 4:53 pm

Jan 19, 2016, 4:36 pm

#1671

lovenola

Join Date: Sep 2012

Location: HNL

Programs: Aadvantage ExPlt, SPG Platinum 100, Alaska 75K

Posts: 372

Safeway sold blackhawk in 2014

https://blackhawknetwork.com/blackhawk-comments-on-parent-company-safeways-spin-off-announcement/

Jan 19, 2016, 4:50 pm

#1672

janetdoe

Join Date: Jul 2009

Location: DFW

Programs: AS, BA, AA

Posts: 3,670

Quote:

Originally Posted by lovenola

Safeway sold blackhawk in 2014

https://blackhawknetwork.com/blackha...-announcement/

Doh! I was poking around in old SEC filings last night and apparently missed the new ones.

Jan 19, 2016, 5:07 pm

#1673

particlemn

Join Date: Dec 2010

Location: Long Beach

Programs: HHonors Diamond, Hyatt Diamond

Posts: 1,171

I wonder if this had to do with all the gas points they were giving out

Jan 19, 2016, 5:12 pm

#1674

sbft77

Join Date: Dec 2013

Location: California

Posts: 264

Quote:

Originally Posted by particlemn

I wonder if this had to do with all the gas points they were giving out

They already fixed (I think) the glitch with VGC giving gas points.
Maybe it was triggered by the Serve shutdowns; Serve could be loaded from Vanilla at various places; Vanilla is cheaper and not sold at grocery stores; now many people are switching to MOs, which are harder to get with Vanilla, so there was probably a big increase in VGC purchases at grocery stores.

Jan 19, 2016, 5:59 pm

#1675

mile ho

Join Date: May 2007

Location: DFW

Programs: WN A+, AA, HYATT DIAMOND, SPG

Posts: 1,125

Can confirm here. They're gone.

Jan 19, 2016, 7:42 pm

#1676

Goopy14

Join Date: Jan 2016

Posts: 10

Can also confirm. Manager said he got a corporate directive to have them removed by 11am today. Related: visited the shoppers down the road and vgc/mcgc/agc had all been removed.

Jan 19, 2016, 7:53 pm

#1677

ninetwosix

Join Date: Nov 2010

Posts: 43

All my local stores (Jewel) pulled the variable cards off the shelves.

Jan 19, 2016, 7:57 pm

#1678

iamthehpt

Join Date: Dec 2007

Location: DFW

Programs: AA Lifetime Platinum, Hyatt Plat Hilton Gold, SPG Gold, Club Carl Gold, IHG Plat

Posts: 1,002

Texas based Safeway owned Tom Thumb stores have pulled all variable load VGCs, MCGCs and AGCs. Claim is they weren't profitable. Fixed value cards remain but aren't profitable for MS purposes at $5.95 per $100.

Jan 19, 2016, 9:02 pm

#1679

TheMacallan

Join Date: Dec 2013

Posts: 76

For comparison, Cub Foods stores in MN (Supervalu) also pulled the VGCs, MCGCs, and AGCs off the racks over the the weekend and included a sign that they are working to get them back as soon as possible.

Jan 19, 2016, 9:04 pm

#1680

Chelski

Join Date: Jun 2015

Posts: 1,727

YMMV.

Last edited by Chelski; Feb 7, 2016 at 6:38 am