{"id":14170,"date":"2026-08-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=14170"},"modified":"2026-08-23T18:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T00:40:26","slug":"monday-aa-credit-card-walmart-enters-the-year-2020-staples-fee-free-visas-and-kroger-fyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/24\/monday-aa-credit-card-walmart-enters-the-year-2020-staples-fee-free-visas-and-kroger-fyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday: AA Credit Card, Walmart Enters the Year 2020, Staples Fee-Free Visas, and Kroger FYI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citi.com\/credit-cards\/citi-aadvantage-executive-world-legend-mastercard\">The AA World Elite Mastercard has an increased sign-up bonus of 125,000 miles after $15,000 spend<\/a> in five months, and it&#8217;s bringing along an increased $695 annual fee.<br><br>Don&#8217;t worry though, there&#8217;s still bad news to go with the good news: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreditCards\/comments\/1us86ty\/american_airlines_devaluation_60k_jal_usatyo_no\/\">AA devalued award prices recently<\/a> so your increased sign-up bonus doesn&#8217;t go as far as it would have a few months ago. It&#8217;s not quite &#8220;heads I win, tails you lose&#8221; situation, <a href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/tuesday-thought-the-bad-idea-thats-great-to-know-citi-quad-dip\/\">but there are better ways to get at least 160,000 AA miles<\/a>, unless you want lots of AA lounge cheese cubes I guess.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.walmart.com\/news\/2026\/08\/21\/more-ways-to-pay-tap-to-pay-is-coming-to-walmart-and-sams-club\">Walmart and Sams Club started accepting Apple Pay today<\/a>, at least at &#8220;select locations&#8221;. The non-select locations will have support by the end of the year.<br><br>Always be probing.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.staples.com\/lp\/easyrewardsoverview\">Staples stores have fee-free $200 Visa gift cards through Saturday<\/a>, limit nine per transaction.<br><br>These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Monday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1022\" height=\"824\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-17.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14171\" style=\"width:420px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-17.png 1022w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-17-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-17-768x619.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">More good news mixed with bad news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Monday! More good news mixed with bad news.<\/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":[54,53,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170","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=14170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14174,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170\/revisions\/14174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}