Best Buy 3% on Groceries; Safeway?
Dec 3, 2019, 11:47 am
#1
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Best Buy 3% on Groceries; Safeway?
Best Buy VISA (Citi) is offering a 3% back in point rewards when purchasing groceries (until Dec 31). They list groceries as the following merchants:
- Trader Joe's
- Whole Foods
- Meijer
- Publix
- Kroger
- Albertsons
- Stop & Shop
- Von Hanson's Meats
- Blue Apron
- Dairy Queen
- Starbucks
Last edited by ebp; Dec 3, 2019 at 11:58 am
Dec 3, 2019, 5:36 pm
#2
Join Date: Feb 2016
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Best Buy VISA (Citi) is offering a 3% back in point rewards when purchasing groceries (until Dec 31). They list groceries as the following merchants:
- Trader Joe's
- Whole Foods
- Meijer
- Publix
- Kroger
- Albertsons
- Stop & Shop
- Von Hanson's Meats
- Blue Apron
- Dairy Queen
- Starbucks
Dec 22, 2019, 6:08 pm
#3
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Question: do Best Buy reward certs from the Citi Best Buy credit card work the same way as regular Best Buy reward certs? I.e. dead for merchant GC purchases in-stores, only working on some like iTunes
Dec 28, 2019, 4:49 pm
#4
Join Date: Dec 2019
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Correct - you can no longer use reward certs to buy gift cards
Last edited by Nektar; Dec 28, 2019 at 4:50 pm Reason: forgot quotes
Dec 29, 2019, 9:38 pm
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Best Buy VISA (Citi) is offering a 3% back in point rewards when purchasing groceries (until Dec 31). They list groceries as the following merchants:
- Trader Joe's
- Whole Foods
- Meijer
- Publix
- Kroger
- Albertsons
- Stop & Shop
- Von Hanson's Meats
- Blue Apron
- Dairy Queen
- Starbucks
Premier Rewards Gold refresh: 4x USA dining, groceries, $10/mon dining credit. $250.
I suggest you verify a particular location with a small "test" purchase before going "gung ho" on that location and counting on it to post correctly.
In theory, that could happen with any brand of grocery store, but there recent reports (at least in the Amex forum) are about Safeways (in a particular area at least).
Ie, they may have left out Safeway because they too got some reports of some Safeways being coded incorrectly.
As noted above, if it's coded correctly as "grocery", it should work fine, the thing to watch out for is individual stores that aren't coded correctly.
Jan 10, 2020, 8:05 pm
#6
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Location: New England
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All Albertsons and associated grocery store brands use the Safeway POS system. As others have mentioned here, some Safeways may code incorrectly as they can also sell gas. I think Safeway is the only brand that sells gas in the whole company, so any other Safeway/Albertsons brand should work just fine. The charge appears as that brand, and not Safeway unless you’re at an actual Safeway.
Also, Dairy Queen and Starbucks count as groceries? Since when?
Also, Dairy Queen and Starbucks count as groceries? Since when?