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The Offer
Stop&Shop, Giant, Martin’s (not yet showing)
Giant/Stopandshop/Martin’s have an offer showing in their upcoming circular for May 15 – May 21:
- Get 3x fuel points on the purchase Visa gift cards.
Gift cards generally don’t earn fuel points at all at Giant/S&S/Martin’s, but occasionally they release offers like this to get points on gift card purchases.
The Fine Print
- Valid 5/15/20 – 5/21/20 (starts Friday)
- Must use store card to get and use the points
- Be sure to double check that your local store is running this offer before buying
- “We now accept credit cards for the purchase of Visa, Mastercard, and American Express gift cards”
Gas Points Details
Every 100 points gets you 10¢ off per gallon at Shell, up to 20 gallons. If you have 1000 points, you’ll get $1 off. If you have 1500 points, you’ll get $1.50 off per gallon.
- Max discount in some areas is $1.50. In other areas, there might not be any max.
- You have 30 days to use the points. The day of purchase is Day #1. (Giant PA and Martins might expire at the end of the following month.)
- Points can only be used at partner Shell stations. You can redeem the points in a different area from where you got the points, but only if that Shell station is a partner. Check out the gas locator for Stop & Shop and for Giant for exact listings of which Shell stations are included. (Giant PA and Martins might only be valid at their own gas stations.)
- See the FAQ for more details. Some of the details vary by area and store.
- Points usually are available immediately, but I’ve had on occasion where it took a day until they showed up and were usable.
- Pro tip: Use a Shell gift card and you’ll usually get the cash price; it’s especially worthwhile to get the lower cash price when using fuel points.
Our Verdict
Nice to see this back again, I expect we’ll see it with increasing regularity throughout the summer. We’ll repost when this goes live. Some areas allow you to use ‘fuel points’ for groceries, thus, it could make sense for someone who doesn’t need the gas too.
Use a card that earns bonus rewards at the grocery or use Chase Freedom for 5x back this quarter or any of the other cards that are earning a bonus at the grocery currently.
Hat tip to EI
Love this promo. Does anyone know if AMEX counts this grocery store purchase towards SUB spend (Giant PA)? Thanks
Dp: bought $500 at Giant Bear, DE store. 1500 points on the receipt and instantly showed up in app.
FYI Potomac MD Giant store does not award points.
DP: Went to the local Giant in Maryland today. There was signage indicating 3x points for the VISA, but as others reported nothing in the store circular. Points were on the receipt.
DP… My receipt did not show getting points. My on-line account does show the points within a 1/2 hour of purchase. S&S is giving me the option to use up to 2K points for grocery $’s ($20 max) or 2K points for $2 off per gallon. This is a change since the max amount off gas for many years has been $1.50.
I was under the assumption that even though you can designate 2K points for gas, you can only redeem 1.5K points max up to 20 gallons. The unused 500 points will just sit in your fuel rewards account. Designating points does not mean redeeming actual points at the pump.
I haven’t tried myself so I wouldn’t know but it’s just what the FAQ says. I’m in Giant Food of Landover Maryland so there may be different terms now.
UR right. $1.50 off when I filled up today. I really like the flexibility to manage gas point now. So many times I’ve had 1,000’s expire. Now you can transfer the “go points” to groceries and burn them before they expire. You can only use so much gas.
I bought Pink flowers VGC in nova. Did not show up on receipt and nothing in account yet. Does it take a while?
You should have gone to customer service where they could have manually added the points. Now you’ll have to either go back to the store or contact the customer service number on the chain’s website.
I did. They said no because it wasn’t in their circular. They didn’t want to look at my phone to see the photo.
Same DP as below. Just got added roughly 20 min after transaction.
I don’t know if this is an issue just for today only, but every other time I look up my balance or change my pin via giftcardmall.com/mygift, I get “Request Validation Failed”. I am able to get in eventually after waiting a little bit but it is annoying having to do it multiple times.
A private browser window in combination with a VPN should circumvent that. I’ve had the same issue before.
It still hasn’t made a difference for me unfortunately. I double checked via phone and everything seems a-OK. Seems like a random glitch.
Ah I’m glad this isn’t an isolated incident. Seems like quite a few reports on reddit too with the same issue. Their captcha/human verification tool may be broken.
Another dp at MD no ad in circular but visa gift card with balloon worked and it showed up on the receipt with 3X
I can also confirm, not in circular and no signage at all in store. However VGC (pink flowers) earned me 3x points.
It’s important to have you card scanned or phone number entered. When it’s not in the circular, the customer service will not fix the missing loyalty card info.
Yes, if it’s not in the circular, CSR will not honor a “non existent” promotion. This one has to be automatically credited on the backend, or YMMV for getting it manually credited.
Has anyone had any luck at Giant Food in the Washington metro area? I bought a $500 VGC at Giant this morning (Arlington, VA) but no points.
Follow up got the points after about a half an hour
Awesome, thanks for the datapoint!
Thanks for the dp, were the points on your receipt?
No. In my experience the points and never show up on the receipt when buying gift cards and using flex points. But a half an hour later the points are in the account. If you then buy food at the checkout it will show up on your receipt and you will see all of the points.