After the PPMC warnings and the Only thing Rite aid has been good for me in the past few months is withdrawing cash from gift cards. Figure I get a snack and then get a few dollars out of it while I'm there. Fortunately, there's a Rite aid within 2-3 minutes driving from my work.

it did at some point

Rite Aid put a system block which prevents buying gift cards with Rite Aid gift cards. Sad times :(

Are your sure? It is YMMV at store policy. I bought 8 MCGCs 10 days ago and get +20 Up reward during the weekly promotion without any issue at a RA 10 miles from my house. All 5 of the RAs near my house are cash or debit only.

I only use those 5 RAs to finish my + Up rewards and go to any CVS if I need to purchase more VGCs. They usually only one block away.

Has RA pulled all Paypal MyCash out? I haven't seen it since last week.

The RA closest to me hasn't restocked in probably 2 weeks. The other RA I frequent still had a few though.

This week's Rite Aid ad (3/1-3/7): "Buy 2 or more American Express Gift Cards (equal to $100 or more) Get $10 off this purchase with Wellness+ card", Offer ends 3/7/15. "Must bring coupon ... Limit 1 per customer".

Does anyone know if buying just one high value amex gc (e.g., $500 or $200 or $100) triggers the $10 discount?

(Even though it says "buy 2", some previous Rite Aid offers counted a single gc as 2 if the amount was high enough; this offer is different than the previous one in a couple ways, but maybe a similar thing applies.)
I guess it'd be easy to test this, since the $10 off (if it works) should appear before completing the purchase, rather than after.

I did some experiments:

One $500 card: $10 coupon worked.

Four $50 cards: $10 coupon didn't work (that surprised me, but maybe the $100 is referring to individual card amounts, not the total amount), but the cashier manually entered two $10 coupons.

The RiteAid in Westwood, CA didn't allow me to load more than $100 at a time. I've never hear of such an arbitrary rule before. I pushed back and the rude clerk asked to see my ID -- as if I were buying a restricted product.

I thought she was just incompetent, so I came back another time -- and had the same issue, and a manager came and confirmed. He gave me some mini-lecture about how each store can set their own policies.

Don't bother with this store if you're ever in the area.

My local RA pulled all the PPMCC and told me that they can only do swipe reloads now, and their machine seems to be hard coded against debit. Either that or they trained even the most friendly cashiers to watch for credit showing on the screen and cancel it and force debit.

Really!?

so you'd actually make money on $500 AGC?

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Vanilla MC, get $5 up rewards.

Today, Sunday, I bought 1 x $500 Vanilla MC, but no up rewards shows on the receipt.

Can anyone confirm? Stacking the limit is dead?

I had the same result. Kinda pissed me off.....I bought two on diff accounts and didn't check the receipts until i got back in the car and saw nothing earned. If you go buy another one on the account that you already bought one, will it add them together and give you the up+ rewards? or do they have to be in the same txn?

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Don't you have to buy 2 GCs to get the reward?

Rite Aid gift cards deals are based on the total spending. If there is a deal like "buy $25 gift card, get $5 up reward", you can buy 1 x $50 gift card instead of 2 x $25 gift cards and get the same reward amount of $10.

For the Vanilla deals, they used to be "spend $45, get $5 up reward", so $500 would count as 2 deals.

The problem is that we don't know if this still works or not.

Someone should test a $50 GameStop gift card. You should get 2 deals. If you don't need GameStop, you can convert it into Amazon, Shell or BP gas, etc., at GameStop.