Chase is sending out a notice with upcoming changes on the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card.
Benefits Eliminated:
- The 2% Drugstore category is being removed
Benefits Added:
- 5% back on purchases made through Chase Travel with an eligible Prime membership
- 2% back on local transit and commuting, including rideshares
Benefits Unchanged:
- 5% back at Amazon & Whole Foods with an eligible Prime membership
- 2% back at restaurants and gas stations
- 1% back on all other purchases
I don’t see these changes affecting our readers much. Maybe the 5% Chase Travel can be useful if you don’t another Chase card with that benefit.
Hat tip to Mauricio, Daniel, Mark
They are also renaming the cards (now Prime Visa and Amazon Visa) and changing the designs for both (now dark blue for Prime and silver for Amazon).
Shame they get rid of drug stores because I don’t buy any meds, but I do shop Walgreens/CVS/RiteAid for household purchases. Rideshare and travel benefits are useless because both are cheaper through other means.
Flex and Unlimited already get 3% at drug stores. Keeping around a 2% was probably not worth the effort
Baseline card should be 2% anyways hence the reason why this barely effects anyone
Would love to see restaurants upped to 3% like the other Chase cards though they probably won’t as it’s cobranded.
I don’t think you need Sapphire to get the 5% in chase travel. Believe you also get it with Freedom Unlimited, not sure about Freedom Flex or the original Freedom, but I’m guessing those also.
Basically this card is only useful for Amazon with Prime, IMO, and not this quarter.
I’ll update
I can confirm that Flex does get the 5% travel benefit.
no more blue pill discounts 🙁
They want you to use amazon pharmacy instead