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)
Apr 5, 2019, 5:39 am
#451
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 6
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.
Apr 5, 2019, 10:18 am
#452
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: CA
Posts: 1,302
Any DP on which variables are still earning rewards?
Apr 5, 2019, 10:35 am
#453
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 2,061
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.
Apr 5, 2019, 6:58 pm
#455
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 162
And if you have last month's rewards, both of them will come off as well, so you actually can get a maximum of $70 refund using 46 rewards total if you have both months of rewards loaded to your account and add the bakery $2 reward (and of course purchase $2 of bakery.) The cashier was shocked that I'm actually being paid that much to shop, initially very confused saying I owe the store the specified amount when the register reports a refund.
Don't know, never tried it but probably should have.
What I started doing to avoid awkwardness is inserting my debit card in the pin pad during the transaction, then when they total it most would say your total due is whatever the amount of your credit is. The - sign is not very obvious. Then when they push whichever is the button that would charge your card if it was a normal transaction, the money would get refunded to my debit card and put right in the bank. This was not really necessary cause even one time when the cashier called a manager, he just said to refund the money cause that is what the register said to do and it would be out of balance if they didn't.
Apr 5, 2019, 11:54 pm
#456
Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 1
Anyone else have Safeway claw back rewards balance? I hit balloons/canoe fairly hard. Decided to confirm for myself if it was truly dead or not, and noticed I have a rewards balance of -27. Checked online at it says my rewards balance is 0, and 58 rewards are expiring this month.
Also yeah, balloons/canoe is dead. Variable MCGC didn't get me anything either.
Also yeah, balloons/canoe is dead. Variable MCGC didn't get me anything either.
Apr 7, 2019, 9:45 am
#457
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 21
Getting denied when trying to buy visa gc with cc
I have forever been buying the MBVGC at Safeway in the $500 denomination, usually two at a time and this morning tried two different Safeway’s and both managers on duty said something different. The first Safeway said I couldn’t purchase over $200 on credit, the other said it’s not allowed at all and has never been allowed even though I did this less than 2 weeks ago. Not only that, I tried yesterday and a different manager on duty was going to allow it but my card gave me a fraud alert and denied the purchase.
So what is it, is this a new policy or are they giving me false information?
So what is it, is this a new policy or are they giving me false information?
Apr 7, 2019, 11:03 am
#458
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Window Seat
Programs: National Executive, HHonors Gold, IHG Platinum, Hyatt Visitor
Posts: 2,495
I have forever been buying the MBVGC at Safeway in the $500 denomination, usually two at a time and this morning tried two different Safeway’s and both managers on duty said something different. The first Safeway said I couldn’t purchase over $200 on credit, the other said it’s not allowed at all and has never been allowed even though I did this less than 2 weeks ago. Not only that, I tried yesterday and a different manager on duty was going to allow it but my card gave me a fraud alert and denied the purchase.
So what is it, is this a new policy or are they giving me false information?
So what is it, is this a new policy or are they giving me false information?
Apr 18, 2019, 9:05 am
#460
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 79
New Safeway Coupon - 5X on GIftcards. Expires on 4/23. Unlimited use. Usual exclusions apply.
