{"id":3656,"date":"2022-01-24T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:58:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:58:48","slug":"monday-fuel-points-hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/24\/monday-fuel-points-hangover\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Fuel Points Hangover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kroger has been <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gcgalore.com\/kroger-earn-4x-fuel-points-on-happy-choice-gift-cards-in-store-ends-1-25-22\/\">running a 4x fuel points promotion<\/a> on Happy branded gift cards since about a week and a half ago, and mid-last week a <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsfoodanddrug.com\/cl\/coupons\/\">promotion for 2x fuel points on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays<\/a> showed up too. To everyone\u2019s surprise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 4x and 2x coupons stacked to earn a total of 5x on Happy gift cards<\/li>\n<li>Variable Visa and Mastercard gift cards earned 1x<\/li>\n<li>Money order purchases earned 1x<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 2x coupons aren\u2019t new, they show up every couple of months and have standard language that excludes earning on gift cards and money orders (amongst other things). Typically that language is enforced, but obviously not always. There\u2019s another piece of good news too: the current 2x coupon is running through January 30. That means you\u2019ve probably got another Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for shenanigans assuming no one fixes it. <\/p>\n<p>Lessons learned:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Always clip all coupons related to grocery points<\/li>\n<li>Always enter your rewards ID at checkout even if you wouldn\u2019t normally earn points<\/li>\n<li>Pay close attention to the rewards earned on your receipt to spot anomalies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, remember that this sort of thing isn\u2019t just a Kroger phenomenon; it <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesperday.com\/2021\/11\/deal-dead-safeway-giving-out-rewards-for-vgc\/\">happens at other chains<\/a> too (and there are gems to be found out there <em>right now<\/em>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3657\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/gaspump.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/gaspump.jpeg 870w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/gaspump-300x202.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/gaspump-768x517.jpeg 768w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Clearly some of you have more fuel points than you know how to use.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kroger has been running a 4x fuel points promotion on Happy branded gift cards since about a week and a half ago, and mid-last week<\/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":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-hints","category-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","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=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7113,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions\/7113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}