{"id":4581,"date":"2022-05-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=4581"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:40:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:40:26","slug":"meijers-big-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/27\/meijers-big-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Meijer\u2019s Big Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Deal<\/h4>\n<p>Meijer is running its best promotion for a manufactured spender, an instant <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meijer.com\/mperks\/coupons.html\">10% discount on $500 in purchased gift cards<\/a> after clipping the digital coupon. The sale runs today and tomorrow, limit one per MPerks account. The deal excludes a few major gift card resale brands like Apple and Amazon, but does work on others like Nike, Home Depot, Adidas, Best Buy, and Disney.<\/p>\n<p>There are years where it\u2019s been worth traveling to Meijer land just to take advantage of this deal, but thanks to effectively a month of crazy Kroger fuel points deals, rates and demand on major brands are at a local minima. As a result, it probably only makes sense to travel into the region if you\u2019ve got quite a few 99 AmEx AU card offers to blow through or you can find a cheap way to get there.<\/p>\n<h4>A Reader Report<\/h4>\n<p>At the last of these <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/tuesday-quick-hits\/\">Meijer sales in November, 2021<\/a>, reader Mike booked a roundtrip flight to Ohio for a Saturday day trip. His experience:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He had a little over seven hours between his outbound and return flights<\/li>\n<li>He made 15 MPerks accounts the night before, but that only lasted him a couple of hours<\/li>\n<li>He traveled to six stores over the course of his time on the ground<\/li>\n<li>He bought 36 $500 BestBuy gift cards for $450 each<\/li>\n<li>He took his time but believes he could have been much more efficient with a plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time resale rates for BestBuy were about 97%, so with $35 per BestBuy card in profit, he netted about $1,260 in cash and $18,000 in grocery store spend.<\/p>\n<p>A favorite trope in the manufactured spend community is that \u201call manufactured spend is local\u201d. The good news is that we can just redefine local with a quick trip. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4591\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cornhenge.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cornhenge.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/cornhenge-300x200.jpeg 300w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Fly-over country becomes fly-to country. If not for Meijer, it\u2019s for, err, whatever this is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deal Meijer is running its best promotion for a manufactured spender, an instant 10% discount on $500 in purchased gift cards after clipping the<\/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":[12,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-hints","category-scaling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581","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=4581"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7024,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions\/7024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}