{"id":5484,"date":"2022-10-06T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=5484"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:21:23","slug":"omgwtfbbq-kroger-fuel-points-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/06\/omgwtfbbq-kroger-fuel-points-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"OMGWTFBBQ, Kroger Fuel Points Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[For those of you outside of Kroger land, general principles about tackling problems may still be applicable.]<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/09\/whats-going-on-with-kroger-fuel-points-september-edition\/\">talked about the strange state of Kroger Fuel points<\/a> several times this year, but there are new developments that warrant yet another one of these posts. Unfortunately things aren\u2019t great and nearly every heavy-hitter manufactured spender that was utilizing fuel points in their strategies has had accounts irrevocably locked and lost at least a little money as a result. The updates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kroger now seems to have a dedicated team seeking fuel points abuse<\/li>\n<li>Kroger is reaching out to some heavy hitters by email, asking them to explain the account<\/li>\n<li>Accounts are being locked in near real time while loading, and it seems to be triggered by back-to-back purchases<\/li>\n<li>Kroger is finding ways to correlate accounts, apparently even by the purchasing credit card<\/li>\n<li>Kroger has shutdown an account mid-redemption<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, if you still want to play the game, you need to stay under the radar. That means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get a new IP address before creating or accessing an account (<a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/services-and-software\/a-vpn-isnt-the-only-way-to-change-your-ip-address\/\">some ideas here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Use a new incognito window when creating or accessing an account<\/li>\n<li>Use a new credit card number when buying (AU and employee cards can help)<\/li>\n<li>If you do back to back transactions, use multiple cards and Kroger accounts<\/li>\n<li>Load fuel points at a drip over several days<\/li>\n<li>Redeem fuel points back-to-back, as quickly as possible if outside of your own geography, or as a slow drip if within your own geography<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The window is very much closing on this one, stay safe!<\/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-5489\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/omgwtfbbq.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/omgwtfbbq.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/omgwtfbbq-300x185.jpeg 300w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">The Kroger fuel points marketplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[For those of you outside of Kroger land, general principles about tackling problems may still be applicable.] We\u2019ve talked about the strange state of Kroger<\/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":[64,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-points","category-reselling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484","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=5484"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6930,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5484\/revisions\/6930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}