{"id":13079,"date":"2026-01-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13079"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:03:34","slug":"tuesday-hyatt-and-chase-nerfs-staples-gift-cards-and-the-giant-food-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/tuesday-hyatt-and-chase-nerfs-staples-gift-cards-and-the-giant-food-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday: Hyatt and Chase Nerfs, Staples Gift Cards, and the Giant Food Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Expired free night certificates used to be worth 10,000 points for a category 1-4 certificate, or 20,000 points for a category 1-7 certificate if you called Hyatt right after expiration and asked, as long as those certificates were from the Hyatt program and not a partner like AA or Chase. That was nerfed, with the new values:

    – Category 1-4 expired certificate: 2,500 points
    – Category 1-7 expired certificate, 5,000 points

    It beats the devaluation points for Club Upgrade Award certificates for Globalists I guess.
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  2. Chase Pay Yourself Back on the Sapphire Reserve Business card<\/a> removed all bonus categories except for “Select Charities”, and the boost on that category dropped from 50% to 25%. #bonvoyed

    The personal Sapphire Reserve is unaffected. (Thanks to Chris)
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  3. Staples stores have fee-free $200 Mastercard gift cards through Saturday<\/a>, limit nine per transaction.

    These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network cards.
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  4. Stop & Shop<\/a>, Giant<\/a>, and Martins<\/a>  have 10x points on Lowes gift cards through Thursday. Of course their little brother Giant Food<\/a> is only 4x. Why? Because reasons.
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  5. JetBlue has 26% off of base fares booked by tomorrow for travel between January 13 and February 28<\/a> using code GO26.<\/em> Of course there are blackouts, and also all Fridays and Saturdays are #NOGO26.<\/em> You can stack this with a Citi Merchant offer for $50 off of $200+<\/a> too.

    Did I hear you want discounted Mint or transatlantic, or worse, discounted Mint+transatlantic? JetBlue was quoted as saying “That’s a nah from me dawg. Just ask Giant Food.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Have a nice Tuesday!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    It’s not all sadness at Giant Food though, their seasonal section carries this beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have a nice Tuesday! It’s not all sadness at Giant Food though, their seasonal section carries this beauty.<\/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":[54,53,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-hotels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079","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=13079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13086,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13079\/revisions\/13086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}