{"id":13095,"date":"2026-01-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13095"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:11:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:11:31","slug":"thursday-quad-big-credit-card-moves-kroger-4x-southwest-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/thursday-quad-big-credit-card-moves-kroger-4x-southwest-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Quad: Big Credit Card Moves, Kroger 4x, Southwest Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/banking\/jpmorgan-chase-reaches-a-deal-to-take-over-the-apple-credit-card-4e214fb2\">According to the Wall Street Journal, the Marcus Apple Card portfolio will be moving to Chase<\/a> with a deal inked yesterday. There&#8217;s a chance that current Apple Card holders banned by Chase may find their way back as part of the acquisition based on prior deals, but it&#8217;s definitely not a guarantee. (Thanks to mforch)<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Nilson report for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/1q6bj72\/comment\/ny7ceky\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">credit card purchase volume in 2024 by issuer was leaked on reddit yesterday<\/a>. I believe the data to be dubiously accurate.<br><br>Two questions: (1) Do you have a card from every issuer on the list? And (2), why not? If banned from Chase, see the previous item.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kroger has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kroger.com\/savings\/c\/800000192179\">4x fuel points promotion on third party gift cards<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kroger.com\/savings\/c\/800000192181\">fixed value Visa and Mastercards<\/a> through Tuesday, January 20. As usual, Amazon and third party fuel gift cards are excluded from the promotion.<br><br>In a Pepper-free, lame-Newegg world, market rates are surprisingly good for a January.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwest.com\/air\/booking\/?promoCode=DREAMBIG&amp;departureDate=2026-01-26&amp;returnDate=2026-01-29&amp;clk=CB1410890&amp;cbid=CB1410890\">Southwest has a fare sale for travel between January 26 and May 13<\/a> booked by tonight using promo code <em>DREAMBIG<\/em>. Yes, someone at Southwest dreamt of blackout dates, and yes they made that dream real.<\/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=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13097\" style=\"width:420px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4.png 540w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-4-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The Marcus-Chase card deal contract, with banana for scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thursday! The Marcus-Chase card deal contract, with banana for scale.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13095","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=13095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13098,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13095\/revisions\/13098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}