{"id":12215,"date":"2025-07-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12215"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:57:13","slug":"thursday-double-southwest-card-nerfs-and-kroger-4x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/thursday-double-southwest-card-nerfs-and-kroger-4x\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Double: Southwest Card Nerfs and Kroger 4x"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I don&#8217;t normally report on rumors unless they&#8217;re funny or actionable, and this one probably qualifies as both: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/1m74at5\/comment\/n4r038o\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">The Chase Southwest Visa portfolio&#8217;s annual fees are probably increasing according to referral links<\/a> and losing the annual $75 Southwest credits:<br \/><br \/>&#8211; Plus: $69 \u2192 $99<br \/>&#8211; Premier: $99 \u2192 $149<br \/>&#8211; Priority: $149 \u2192 $229<br \/>&#8211; Premier Business: $99 \u2192 $149<br \/>&#8211; Performance Business: $199 \u2192 $299<br \/><br \/>If you want one of these cards, I&#8217;d apply for it ASAP (obviously not via referral), unless the referral is worth more to you than the annual fee increase and lack of a $75 Southwest credit.<br \/><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kroger.com\/savings\/c\/800000137811\">Kroger stores have a 4x fuel points promotion on third party gift cards on Friday only<\/a>. Amazon gift cards are excluded and will still only earn 2x. Sometimes weird things happen with gebits on these sales too.<br><br>Pepper at this point is probably dead forever, and the gift card resale market seems to have fully healed across all brands. Yes, there is a Pepper post-mortem post coming. When? Post this post, when they&#8217;re confirmed dead forever.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Thursday!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-19.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12216\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-19.png 700w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-19-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Another actionable or funny rumor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thursday! Another actionable or funny rumor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,53,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-ms-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12218,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12215\/revisions\/12218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}