Plenti lets us know that many of their partners are leaving them on January 1, 2018 including: Hulu, Nationwide, Enterprise, Alamo, National, Local Dining, and Direct Energy. At&t has already exited beginning November.
Partners remaining include: Exxon/Mobil, Rite Aid, Macy’s, Chili’s, Winn-Dixie, Bi-Lo, and Harvey’s. Amex is in discussion with the remaining partners over the future of the program. They’ve also discontinued the Amex Plenti credit card.
In the event they close down the Plenti program completely, I imagine they’ll give some period of time to use up Plenti points, but might be worth using them up sooner rather than later out of caution.
Lets address the accusations regarding Plenti partners “leaving”
First off American Express ended their affiliation with AT&T in October (possibly employees were using AT&T’s competitors such as T-Mobile or Verizon so it was a conflict of interest? Who knows?) so now it says Enterprise/Alamo (the car rental company) is done offering discounts (well yeah if you can’t earn points there or OWN your own vehicle there’s no need to waste your time there)
Hulu is changing to becoming more of an On-Demand network rather than being a direct competitor to Netflix and Crackle (so since the Credit card program is ending and Hulu is changing they’ve made up their minds to level the playing field with modern TV watching).
Nationwide is horrible Insurance that is expensive therefor, most people are not using it (including myself)
Those other partners that are “leaving” do NOT exist in the areas where Plenti members live. I’m not sure where those names come from so I have no further comment.
I’d say all but dead … Just got a letter in the mail – the Plenti Amex cards are being cancelled as of February 16, 2018
The Plenti card didn’t seem to make much sense, with Macy’s Amex also available, so the Plenti Amex wasn’t surprising.
The departure of several major partners without the replacement by a competitor- that signals the end of Plenti is near.
Used my plenti points at Winn Dixie to buy a Disney gift card.
Thanks. I bought $45 worth of shampoo from rite-aid with my points just now to liquidate them.
Cyber30 for 30% off this week.
I have $2,500 worth points left on plenti. lol. i guess i will be buying some furniture from Macy’s
I’ll buy them at 80% value, email me at [email protected] if interested.
There haven’t been any Hulu offers on Plenti for a few months. I was earning 800 Plenti points a month (enough to cover the $7.99 monthly cost) just for watching certain shows on Hulu. For the categories I didn’t care to actually watch, I would just let it run on my phone while I was at work to get thru the 10 episodes required to earn 200 Plenti points. I just cancelled Hulu since I can’t earn Plenti points to pay for it anymore.
Always possible rite aid may leave if/when Walgreens merger occurs.
I thought the merger was called off. Rite Aid’s Plenti rewards program is much better than the Walgreens program.
Darn, I was really hoping that someday Amex would give me that Hulu deal and I could stack it with Swagbucks and Plenti. Oh well, I was probably never going to get it anyway. I’ll have to be content with an occasional $2 off at Chili’s.
National Alamo wasn’t even a real partnership. You earned Plenti in lieu of Free Days. They have a partnership like United Airlines and National have one.