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Old Dec 20, 2013, 12:30 am
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Originally Posted by miniaturekat
Anyone else seen their local grocery stores clamping down on the use of CCs to buy prepaids/GCs?

The two closest grocery stores to my house both stopped allowing use of CCs to purchase reloads, which is putting a serious crimp on my MS activities.
Many people where buying variableVisa GC at Fry's and or Krogers and getting fuel points as well as miles and points, but that all stopped in Sept, but you can still buy the $100 visa GC and get the fuel points.... Oh BTW, we can still use CC.
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Old Mar 9, 2015, 10:20 pm
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As of today, Safeway stores in Sacramwnto area seem to be clamping down on cc purchases for vgc. Anyone else experience this?
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Old Mar 9, 2015, 11:50 pm
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(1)I think Redbird may have taken the market share from the grocery store(GC) and Walmart (MO) in my area.
(2) AmEx (OBC) is gone or very restricted

demand for GC is down, MS is down...
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Old Mar 11, 2015, 1:10 pm
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I went to my local Vons yesterday. All the 500.00 variable VGC were all taken off the shelf. There used to be stacks of them.
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Old Mar 11, 2015, 8:53 pm
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Originally Posted by sosamo
I went to my local Vons yesterday. All the 500.00 variable VGC were all taken off the shelf. There used to be stacks of them.
Ask for it to any employee. The store that I frequent, I am the only one buying, my MSing bottle neck is cashing out the VGCs.....
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Old Mar 12, 2015, 10:55 am
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My local Ralphs has plenty of variable US Bank MC. No Visas, for whatever reason.
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Old Mar 12, 2015, 11:16 am
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I tend to go to Neighborhood Walmarts to buy Sunrise GC's for $4.94 each instead of the marginally greater $5.95 seen other places. The neighborhood Walmart codes as a grocery store for my AMEX Surpass card so I generate 6x points pretty easily doing this
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Old Mar 12, 2015, 11:48 am
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Originally Posted by DaveInLA
My local Ralphs has plenty of variable US Bank MC. No Visas, for whatever reason.
I know vanilla MC or Visa is now out of Q at wmt for MO, but US and Meta MC?
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Old Mar 13, 2015, 2:38 pm
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Originally Posted by prasha11
I know vanilla MC or Visa is now out of Q at wmt for MO, but US and Meta MC?
The only time I've ever had a problem loading BB with a USBGC bought at Kroger was when I fat-fingered the PIN. Took a few phone calls to fix but it had nothing to do with the GC itself.
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Old Mar 13, 2015, 4:51 pm
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Originally Posted by illinidad
The only time I've ever had a problem loading BB with a USBGC bought at Kroger was when I fat-fingered the PIN. Took a few phone calls to fix but it had nothing to do with the GC itself.
Master card or visa makes a difference?
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Old Mar 13, 2015, 6:16 pm
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Originally Posted by Hecta
I tend to go to Neighborhood Walmarts to buy Sunrise GC's for $4.94 each instead of the marginally greater $5.95 seen other places. The neighborhood Walmart codes as a grocery store for my AMEX Surpass card so I generate 6x points pretty easily doing this
I also buy my sunnies from WMNM with my OBC and use them to pay WM Synchrony CC. Have done this easily using Kate and regular registers.
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Old Mar 13, 2015, 11:44 pm
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How many thousands do you run thru that WM Synchrony CC for the hefty 12c profit???
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Old Mar 14, 2015, 6:05 am
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Old Mar 14, 2015, 8:56 pm
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My local grocery chain had both Visa GCs from MetaBank and Mastercard GCs from US Bank. $5.95 load fee for either.
Choice is a wonderful thing.
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Old Mar 14, 2015, 9:52 pm
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I don't understand that you can treat WM card as a prepaid VGC. Can you explain more detail? To me, $5 CB for every $500 spend is not a good deal.


Originally Posted by Mamibear
I'm not really sure, I just use it like a prepaid (VGC>>any reloadable card) since it gives me $5 CB for every $500 spend which means I get back the fees. Then I get $20.xx for each sunnies I buy from NM to pay my WM card in $500 increments. My CL on this card is $12.5K which they raised last quarter of 2014.
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