Jan 9, 2018, 8:49 pm
Last edit by: geclub1
This is the thread for 2018. The old thread is here.
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xx/xx/15 - xx/xx/15 Promotion
Participating items must be purchased in a single transaction. Limit one(1) offer per transaction
These coupons often do not scan properly(coming up -0.01 along with a 0.01) and require override. Override is always required at SCO.
If the coupon off your next order does not print out, you can request it online here.
When redeeming the coupon, the following items are excluded in the calculation of the minimum spend requirement:
-Fluid dairy such as Milk, Half & Half, etc
-Blunts, alcohol, and smokes
-Gift cards, Lottery tickets, MoneyGram, etc
-Taxes
2021 J4U offers
Feb. 10, 2021: 1) Save $15 off two $100 Visas and 2) Save $10 off two $50 Visas. Exp: 2/23/2021
Mar 28, 2021: 1) Save $15 off 2 $100 MCs and 2) Save $10 off 2 $50 MCs. Exp: 04/10/2021
May 2, 2021: 1) Save $15 off 2 $100 MCs and 2) Save $10 off 2 $50 MCs. Exp: 05/15/2021
May 23, 2021: 1) Save $15 off two $100 Visas and 2) Save $10 off two $50 Visas. Exp: 6/5/2021
July 1, 2021: Post 1235 reported that Safeway is switching vendor from Blackhawk to Incomm
2020 J4U offers
Feb. 9: 1) $15 off two $100 Visas; 2) $10 off two $50 Visas (non variables)
March 29, 2020: Two J4U offers: save $15 off 2 x $100 MCs and save $10 off 2 x $50 MCs. Exp: 04/11/2020.
May 3, 2020: Save $10 off $100+ MCs. Exp: 05/16/2020.
May 24, 2020: Save $10 off $100+ Visas. Exp: 6/6/2020
June 14, 2020: Save $10 off $100+ Visas. Exp: 6/27/2020
June 28, 2020: Save $10 off $100+ MCs. Exp: 7/11/2020
Aug. 16, 2020: 1) Save $15 off two $100 Visas and 2) Save $10 off two $50 Visas. Exp: 8/29/2020
Aug. 30, 2020: 1) Save $15 off two $100 MCs and 2) Save $10 off two $50 MCs. Exp: 9/12/2020
Sept. 13, 2020: 1) Save $15 off two $100 Visas and 2) Save $10 off two $50 Visas. Exp: 9/26/2020
Oct. 18, 2020: 1) Save $15 off 2 $100 MCs and 2) Save $10 off 2 $50 MCs. Exp: 10/31/2020
Oct. 25, 2020: 1) Save $15 off 2 $100 Visas and 2) Save $10 off 2 $50 Visas. Exp: 11/7/2020
Nov. 15, 2020: 1) Save $15 off 2 $100 MCs and 2) Save $10 off 2 $50 MCs. Exp: 11/28/2020
Nov. 29, 2020: 1) Save $15 off 2 $100 Visas and 2) Save $10 off 2 $50 Visas. Exp: 12/12/2020
Dec. 6, 2020: Save $10 off $100+ Visas. Exp: 12/12/2020
Dec. 27, 2020: Save $10 off $100+ Visas. Exp: 1/2/2021
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xx/xx/15 - xx/xx/15 Promotion
Participating items must be purchased in a single transaction. Limit one(1) offer per transaction
These coupons often do not scan properly(coming up -0.01 along with a 0.01) and require override. Override is always required at SCO.
If the coupon off your next order does not print out, you can request it online here.
When redeeming the coupon, the following items are excluded in the calculation of the minimum spend requirement:
-Fluid dairy such as Milk, Half & Half, etc
-Blunts, alcohol, and smokes
-Gift cards, Lottery tickets, MoneyGram, etc
-Taxes
2021 J4U offers
Feb. 10, 2021: 1) Save $15 off two $100 Visas and 2) Save $10 off two $50 Visas. Exp: 2/23/2021
Mar 28, 2021: 1) Save $15 off 2 $100 MCs and 2) Save $10 off 2 $50 MCs. Exp: 04/10/2021
May 2, 2021: 1) Save $15 off 2 $100 MCs and 2) Save $10 off 2 $50 MCs. Exp: 05/15/2021
May 23, 2021: 1) Save $15 off two $100 Visas and 2) Save $10 off two $50 Visas. Exp: 6/5/2021
July 1, 2021: Post 1235 reported that Safeway is switching vendor from Blackhawk to Incomm
2020 J4U offers
Feb. 9: 1) $15 off two $100 Visas; 2) $10 off two $50 Visas (non variables)
March 29, 2020: Two J4U offers: save $15 off 2 x $100 MCs and save $10 off 2 x $50 MCs. Exp: 04/11/2020.
May 3, 2020: Save $10 off $100+ MCs. Exp: 05/16/2020.
May 24, 2020: Save $10 off $100+ Visas. Exp: 6/6/2020
June 14, 2020: Save $10 off $100+ Visas. Exp: 6/27/2020
June 28, 2020: Save $10 off $100+ MCs. Exp: 7/11/2020
Aug. 16, 2020: 1) Save $15 off two $100 Visas and 2) Save $10 off two $50 Visas. Exp: 8/29/2020
Aug. 30, 2020: 1) Save $15 off two $100 MCs and 2) Save $10 off two $50 MCs. Exp: 9/12/2020
Sept. 13, 2020: 1) Save $15 off two $100 Visas and 2) Save $10 off two $50 Visas. Exp: 9/26/2020
Oct. 18, 2020: 1) Save $15 off 2 $100 MCs and 2) Save $10 off 2 $50 MCs. Exp: 10/31/2020
Oct. 25, 2020: 1) Save $15 off 2 $100 Visas and 2) Save $10 off 2 $50 Visas. Exp: 11/7/2020
Nov. 15, 2020: 1) Save $15 off 2 $100 MCs and 2) Save $10 off 2 $50 MCs. Exp: 11/28/2020
Nov. 29, 2020: 1) Save $15 off 2 $100 Visas and 2) Save $10 off 2 $50 Visas. Exp: 12/12/2020
Dec. 6, 2020: Save $10 off $100+ Visas. Exp: 12/12/2020
Dec. 27, 2020: Save $10 off $100+ Visas. Exp: 1/2/2021
Safeway/Vons Master thread (2018 onwards)
Dec 3, 2019, 7:01 pm
#751
Join Date: Sep 2015
Programs: SPG Plat, SWA Companion Pass, United Silver
Posts: 186
Your best bet might be to try and get a VGC from HD with your GC you just got from Safeway. I’ve had mixed success, but the registers aren’t hard coded.
Dec 4, 2019, 6:27 pm
#753
Join Date: Sep 2015
Programs: SPG Plat, SWA Companion Pass, United Silver
Posts: 186
lucky you! I bought a $50 HDGC today and only got the 10x. I was a little bit bummed I didn’t take part in the Happy promo that was giving $25 off $100 on a future trip that paired with the 10x instead last week.
Dec 4, 2019, 6:29 pm
#754
Join Date: Sep 2015
Programs: SPG Plat, SWA Companion Pass, United Silver
Posts: 186
Oh Jesus I’m an idiot! I didn’t expand the promo in the J4U app and missed I had to spend $150 in HD gift cards. Weak and very embarrassing!
Dec 5, 2019, 2:50 am
#755
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: New England
Programs: American Gold, Marriott Gold, Hilton Silver
Posts: 5,640
Just FYI, there was a document that came out saying that Blackhawk will now have cooldowns at all stores. This applies to the ENTIRE store, not just one register. The cooldown period begins once a gift card of a certain type is sold. If the limits are exceeded within the cooldown period, the gift cards will fail to activate (will return a DECLINED error during the activation phase) and will void the gift card.
Right now the Visa/MC/Amex GCs are not on the list. When I get a chance, I'll post the limits and cooldowns here (I skimmed the doc at work today). Most of the limits were $500 and most of the cooldowns were 15 minutes. Cards that I remember seeing on there were iTunes, Google Play, and Best Buy.
Right now the Visa/MC/Amex GCs are not on the list. When I get a chance, I'll post the limits and cooldowns here (I skimmed the doc at work today). Most of the limits were $500 and most of the cooldowns were 15 minutes. Cards that I remember seeing on there were iTunes, Google Play, and Best Buy.
Dec 5, 2019, 4:21 am
#756
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: LAX/SFO
Programs: AS 100k, BA GGL, UA 1k, DL DM, AC SE, B6 Mosaic4, Hyatt/Hilton/Wyndham/IHG Diamond, Marriot Ti
Posts: 1,248
Just FYI, there was a document that came out saying that Blackhawk will now have cooldowns at all stores. This applies to the ENTIRE store, not just one register. The cooldown period begins once a gift card of a certain type is sold. If the limits are exceeded within the cooldown period, the gift cards will fail to activate (will return a DECLINED error during the activation phase) and will void the gift card.
Right now the Visa/MC/Amex GCs are not on the list. When I get a chance, I'll post the limits and cooldowns here (I skimmed the doc at work today). Most of the limits were $500 and most of the cooldowns were 15 minutes. Cards that I remember seeing on there were iTunes, Google Play, and Best Buy.
Right now the Visa/MC/Amex GCs are not on the list. When I get a chance, I'll post the limits and cooldowns here (I skimmed the doc at work today). Most of the limits were $500 and most of the cooldowns were 15 minutes. Cards that I remember seeing on there were iTunes, Google Play, and Best Buy.
Dec 5, 2019, 7:40 am
#757
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 2,295
Just FYI, there was a document that came out saying that Blackhawk will now have cooldowns at all stores. This applies to the ENTIRE store, not just one register. The cooldown period begins once a gift card of a certain type is sold. If the limits are exceeded within the cooldown period, the gift cards will fail to activate (will return a DECLINED error during the activation phase) and will void the gift card.
Right now the Visa/MC/Amex GCs are not on the list. When I get a chance, I'll post the limits and cooldowns here (I skimmed the doc at work today). Most of the limits were $500 and most of the cooldowns were 15 minutes. Cards that I remember seeing on there were iTunes, Google Play, and Best Buy.
Right now the Visa/MC/Amex GCs are not on the list. When I get a chance, I'll post the limits and cooldowns here (I skimmed the doc at work today). Most of the limits were $500 and most of the cooldowns were 15 minutes. Cards that I remember seeing on there were iTunes, Google Play, and Best Buy.
Would you describe what is meant by "cooldown"?
I'm guessing it's something like if a stores sells a $500 iTunes gift card, it will decline all iTunes gift cards purchased within the next X minutes?
And it seems rather odd/annoying that a gift card purchased within this period will decline to activate, presumably after the payment method has been approved.
Last edited by danpeake; Dec 5, 2019 at 2:57 pm
Dec 5, 2019, 2:26 pm
#758
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: New England
Programs: American Gold, Marriott Gold, Hilton Silver
Posts: 5,640
Yes. The instructions say to notify the customer about the cooldown and ask if they want to wait. If not, the customer can be refunded.
Dec 5, 2019, 7:33 pm
#760
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: NJ
Programs: World of Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Premier Platinum
Posts: 462
So the way to really milk earning points on variable VGCs was to stack the $X off your $X purchase offers, and get cash back when you did not spend enough.
The following offers are available each month:
$10 off $10 - 7 rewards
$7 off $7 - 5 rewards
$5 off $5 - 4 rewards
$4 off $4 - 3 rewards
$2 off $2 - 2 rewards
$1 off $1 - 1 rewards
The total comes out to $29, and you need 22 rewards to redeem them all.
The second part comes into play with the department specific offers:
$7 off a $7 in the meat department - 4 rewards
$3 off $3 in the produce department - 2 rewards
To add all these offers you needed a total of 28 rewards.
So what you do is go to the meat department, dig through the meat packages and find one that was as close to $7 as possible, but not below, then go to the produce department and try to get as close to $3 worth of produce, but not below. By doing this, you trigger the $7 off $7 meat offer, and the $3 off $3 produce offer for a total of $10 off. Because the items in the purchase were over $10, it also triggered all of the $X off $X offers, for a total of $29 off. The total value of the money back offers is $39.
The transaction would have $10 worth of items, but $39 worth of credits. So you could get a maximum refund of $29 if you bought exactly $7 of meat and exactly $3 of produce.
The following offers are available each month:
$10 off $10 - 7 rewards
$7 off $7 - 5 rewards
$5 off $5 - 4 rewards
$4 off $4 - 3 rewards
$2 off $2 - 2 rewards
$1 off $1 - 1 rewards
The total comes out to $29, and you need 22 rewards to redeem them all.
The second part comes into play with the department specific offers:
$7 off a $7 in the meat department - 4 rewards
$3 off $3 in the produce department - 2 rewards
To add all these offers you needed a total of 28 rewards.
So what you do is go to the meat department, dig through the meat packages and find one that was as close to $7 as possible, but not below, then go to the produce department and try to get as close to $3 worth of produce, but not below. By doing this, you trigger the $7 off $7 meat offer, and the $3 off $3 produce offer for a total of $10 off. Because the items in the purchase were over $10, it also triggered all of the $X off $X offers, for a total of $29 off. The total value of the money back offers is $39.
The transaction would have $10 worth of items, but $39 worth of credits. So you could get a maximum refund of $29 if you bought exactly $7 of meat and exactly $3 of produce.
Dec 5, 2019, 7:39 pm
#761
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: New England
Programs: American Gold, Marriott Gold, Hilton Silver
Posts: 5,640
I can imagine this being a disaster at high volume stores when they run J4U deals on GCs.
Dec 5, 2019, 10:03 pm
#762
Join Date: Sep 2015
Programs: SPG Plat, SWA Companion Pass, United Silver
Posts: 186
Dec 6, 2019, 9:17 am
#764
Join Date: Sep 2019
Posts: 317
To be clear, both the above posts are correct. You can't redeem rewards to pay for a Visa/MC GC directly. But if you're handling rewards so that your grocery purchase should produce a cash refund, you can apply that to the cost of a Visa/MC GC. The alternative is getting the refund in cash, which confuses the cashiers and often results in a manager being called over.
Dec 6, 2019, 11:13 am
#765
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: NJ
Programs: World of Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Premier Platinum
Posts: 462