{"id":13640,"date":"2026-05-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13640"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:33:58","slug":"weekend-update-new-credit-card-bonuses-grocery-stores-are-back-small-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/weekend-update-new-credit-card-bonuses-grocery-stores-are-back-small-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Update: New Credit Card Bonuses, Grocery Stores are Back, Small Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Do this now<\/strong>: Check for targeted offers from Hilton<\/a>. I got 2,000 bonus points per stay, but various offers exist including stacking stays for up to 15,000 points.
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  2. Kroger stores have a 4x fuel points promotion on third party gift cards<\/a> excluding Amazon and flexible fuel gift cards, and on fixed value Visa and Mastercard gift cards<\/a> running through Tuesday, May 12.
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  3. The Chase Sapphire Reserve personal card has an increased sign-up bonus of 150,000 Ultimate Rewards<\/a> after $6,000 spend in three months. This bonus is available via referrals, so use someone’s referral and make their day. If you don’t use a referral, you’re probably using someone else’s affiliate link so be intentional.

    Also, yes this is a good card offer, and no, it’s not the bee’s knees, the cat’s meow, or the chicken’s foot. Yes, I made that last saying up.
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  4. The personal Chase IHG cards have increased sign-up bonuses:

    –     IHG Premier<\/a>: 150,000+35,000 points after $3000 spend in three months and $6,000 spend in six months, respectively
    –     IHG Traveler<\/a>: 90,000 points after $2,000 in three months and $4,000 spend in six months, respectively

    These aren’t currently available via referrals but my tea leaves suggest they might be on Monday. Of course, I’m really bad at tea leaves.
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  5. H-E-B stores have a $20 H-E-B gift card free with the purchase of a $100 airbnb gift card<\/a>. Airbnb lets you pool gift cards in a single account.

    Say what you will about H-E-B vs Meijer, but 2026 seems biased toward the former.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    And some small news items:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Citi is ending ThankYou Points sharing between different cardholders<\/a> on May 17. This was previously limited to 100,000 a year times n<\/em>, where n<\/em> = (1 + shenanigans<\/em>).
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    2. AirFrance\/KLM FlyingBlue has released its May promo awards<\/a> for travel through October. US cities include almost all of the airline’s international routes, which should tell you something about demand, especially on the lower leg on the K-shaped economy.
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    3. American Express has a 20% transfer bonus to Hilton Honors through May<\/a>, bringing the ratio to 1,000:2,400. It’s not the worst redemption in the world, but that’s like saying that American cheese isn’t the worst cheese in the world: Objectively correct but missing the point.
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    4. American Express’s Gold card benefits changed slightly<\/a>, but it probably doesn’t matter for most of you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Have a nice weekend friends!<\/p>\n\n\n

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      The worst cheese, you ask? American cheese with ketchup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      And some small news items: Have a nice weekend friends! The worst cheese, you ask? American cheese with ketchup.<\/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-13640","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\/13640","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=13640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13649,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13640\/revisions\/13649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}