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Zepcro Dec 22, 2023 10:02 am

S&S sent me an email this morning with the subject "See this week's FREE items with GO Rewards.". I logged in and saw that there is now a "Special Offers" section on the Go Rewards page. I had 2 offers there and redeemed my points for them. I got better value than I would have on Gas. This is definitely worth checking out. Hopefully they'll post new offers weekly.

soy Dec 22, 2023 11:40 am


Originally Posted by Zepcro (Post 35842577)
S&S sent me an email this morning with the subject "See this week's FREE items with GO Rewards.". I logged in and saw that there is now a "Special Offers" section on the Go Rewards page. I had 2 offers there and redeemed my points for them. I got better value than I would have on Gas. This is definitely worth checking out. Hopefully they'll post new offers weekly.

This started last week. There were offers for Cookies and cupcakes and something else that I cannot recall. It was noted in the weekly flyer. I do not see anything today just 'coming soon'
Giant have had this for a while, so it seems S&S are catching up

fly2fish Dec 22, 2023 8:58 pm


Originally Posted by Zepcro (Post 35842577)
S&S sent me an email this morning with the subject "See this week's FREE items with GO Rewards.". I logged in and saw that there is now a "Special Offers" section on the Go Rewards page. I had 2 offers there and redeemed my points for them. I got better value than I would have on Gas. This is definitely worth checking out. Hopefully they'll post new offers weekly.

I just hate how they say, "FREE when you redeem 100 points!". That's like saying "FREE when you give me a dollar!"
But yeah, definitely better cpp value IF you need the item.

gw14 Dec 23, 2023 6:17 am


Originally Posted by soy (Post 35796146)
Any recommendations for a card reader to get?
Just got hit with a bunch of drained cards. Have logged ticket with Incomm (they must be getting killed with this), but going forward I need to know in advance if there is anything iffy with my cards.

All defective cards were the older ones with the full barcode on the back, with expiry in 29/30/31. Have not had issues with the new design where the barcode is only partially visible, expiry 32

Sorry, been offline, the card reader I got was back in 2016 for reading BB cards. Amazon webpages for it is gone. But search for usb 3-Track Magnetic Stripe Card Reader POS Credit Card Reader, should work

gatorboy Dec 24, 2023 10:31 am

Redeeming Flex Rewards
 
I must say it always gives me great pleasure to see the surprise (and wonderment … and sometimes suspicion) on the face of a cashier when the cost of my grocery purchase goes down by $40 or $50 or $60 or more, redeeming flex reward points for groceries.


They often ask how I got so many reward points.

The best, though, recently, was when I purchased a few things and redeemed $42 in Flex rewards - cashier Ana sez, “your wife must have done a good job [accumulating all those points]” 😂😱😂😱

My wife found that to be a little sexist!

golfr Dec 24, 2023 2:41 pm

A few times, it required a manager's(not the cashier who stands at SCO) key because I redeemed too much. That was when they first dolled out the program and it was impossible for me to use all the points for gas redemption.

mind Dec 25, 2023 12:21 pm


Originally Posted by fly2fish (Post 35771701)
Am I the only one here with multiple accounts?

Does Family Sharing work or you have that disabled? Pain to redeem on multiple accounts.

mind Dec 25, 2023 12:36 pm


Originally Posted by Rooks (Post 35817356)
This is for Giant PA. During the promotion two weeks ago, I bought $1,500 at two different places on the first Friday of the promo. Points posted no problem. Bought more several other days and I got 18 points per transaction and the Customer Service rep had to manually enter the points. One of them screwed up and didn't credit me enough, I called a few days later to inquire and my issue was submitted and I got a call back later that day that the limit was $2,000 and I should not have received any points after that. I accepted what she said but was not sure if that was her interpretation of the rules or if that is actually the rule and the register is hard coded to reflect that.

I bought $1,500 VGC at two different places on Saturday and the points again posted with no issue. On Sunday, I got 18 points again and the CSR had to manually post them. So I think the woman whom I spoke to on the phone may have been correct and I suspect that the only reason I got points on the second $1,500 transaction on the first day is because I was under the limit before the purchase so it did not restrict me. but for any subsequent transactions i was over the limit and it restricted me.

Past DPs already have this answered... wish people aren't so trigger-happy to call and bring attention to loopholes to be closed. Used to be so easy to earn points with no limits, now with the 2k limit and it's almost as if people calling want to make sure that's enforced just so they can get a little more points on a one-time purchase >.>

Rooks Dec 25, 2023 4:04 pm


Originally Posted by mind (Post 35849112)
Past DPs already have this answered... wish people aren't so trigger-happy to call and bring attention to loopholes to be closed. Used to be so easy to earn points with no limits, now with the 2k limit and it's almost as if people calling want to make sure that's enforced just so they can get a little more points on a one-time purchase >.>

I re-read the last two months of this thread and the posts you refer to were unclear and seemed to reference Giant MD/VA or S&S. If it was clear to me then I wouldn't have called. I did not have this issue in September and I recall reading here that S&S purchases did. I have been buying cards at Giant for over a decade and know not to bring attention to things.

fly2fish Dec 27, 2023 2:24 pm


Originally Posted by mind (Post 35849089)
Does Family Sharing work or you have that disabled? Pain to redeem on multiple accounts.

Sorry, I don't know anything about "Family Sharing". I just keep multiple accounts. Helps if you keep one in the app and the other in a browser.

Bigzamboni Dec 30, 2023 1:25 pm

Did anyone else have S&S points mysteriously change expiration date? Or maybe get clawed back?

My app is showing all of my points as expiring tomorrow even though I earned some on 12/14 that shouldn't expire until the end of January. A couple days ago I redeemed what should have been everything that was earned in November. Not sure the point total is correct either. Seems like it might be a bit lower than it should be as well, but maybe I only did 2k in November at S&S and it was Giant-PA where I double-dipped. Would have to dig through my November receipts, but I definitely did 1.5k + 2k this month and nothing showing with a January expiration.

Don't really want to call and draw eyes to the double-dip and try to get them fixed so guess I'll just redeem for grocery dollars. Probably have enough gas points from Giant-PA anyway.

FrankMS Dec 30, 2023 2:51 pm

When you cash out the points expiring tomorrow, the rest of the points will show 1/31 date @ Bigzamboni

Bigzamboni Dec 30, 2023 6:10 pm


Originally Posted by FrankMS (Post 35862087)
When you cash out the points expiring tomorrow, the rest of the points will show 1/31 date @ Bigzamboni

Thanks, that did it. Guess I still had a few hundred more left from November than I realized.

cbn42 Jan 3, 2024 8:50 pm

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