Meijer has announced changes to its Mperks Rewards Program. The changes are rolling out to Southeast Michigan starting January 17th and then the rest of the midwest markets over January and February. Changes are as follows:
- Points expire after 90 days (previously 45)
- Each prescription earns points (previously required 5 prescriptions)
- Customers earn 10 points for every $1 spent
1,000 points = $1 off. I’m not sure what the earning rate used to be but the increased points expiry seems good.
Hat tip to DDG
I found that there is Meijer store at my new place and they have Visa/Mastercard gift card available, do they work to buy MO? Thanks.
I don’t have anything different on mine. Just new normal coupons. Rewards section only has my current spend $100, get $2 in progress reward. Available rewards has nothing new.
Too bad Meijer hasn’t offered a $10 off $150 coupon for Visa or Mastercard GCs since November. I suspect that won’t be a monthly offering anymore as it was for the last couple years.
In looking through past deal postings, they didn’t have any until the last week of March last year.
Meijer has a store as far south as Springfield, IL. But I read there’s plan to convert a Menard B&M in St. Clair County. This would put Meijer in the St. Louis area. A nearby Fresh Tyme Market carries Meijer products. I purchased milk today and it had a Meijer label.
Please don’t nerf 5 off 50 GC promo!
I hope they don’t. But lately in the Mperks app I haven’t seen any promos that they usually have. Very suspicious.
Likely they’re just not rolling any new rewards promos out the last couple weeks since they were ravamping the program.
I used to get spend $350 get $7 off. As others noted, 2% if you can nail the target exactly, but surplus does not get added into the next reward. So realistically more like somewhere between 1.5-2.0%. 1% is downgrade for sure.
I’m interested to see how redemption works. In the old system, the rewards were automatically rewarded when you met the spending. Then when you check out the POS sees the reward and prompts you to use it or not without needing to go in app. The new system suggests you need to redeem points for rewards. So you might need to remember to go in app to redeem rewards before the POS prompts you. If that’s true, I could see many less savvy people inadvertantly letting points expire now. We will see.
That’d be my guess. Anything to make it more profitable for them and less so for us.
I always wished for a dynamic system, where it is structured with tiers that you advance through during the earning period, and wherever your spending ends up at the end determines your reward. (Get to $50, earn the $1 reward. Go over $100, now it’s the $2 reward. And so on.) Then it’d reset for the next month/earning period.
I always hated when a period of greater spending kicked me up from $2 for $100 to $3 for $150, because it meant I either HAD to spend $150+ to earn it–and then I’d stay at that level with the next go-round–or let it pass without getting it so that it would reset back to the lower level. So in that regard, this new system will be better. (Just hate the reduced reward rate.)
Definitely a downgrade. All their general spending rewards used to work out to about 2% back. Now it’s 1%.
They actually accidentally leaked the new mperks banners online a few weeks ago but pulled them after a few hours when they realized their mistake.
Also this would explain why they haven’t offered any Rewards opportunities the last few weeks.
Previously it was a fixed “Spend XXX, get a X coupon.” Current offer I have is “Spend $150, get $3” so it works out to 2% back if you spend exactly that amount. You don’t get anything for going over. I’d say this new system is a definite downgrade.
But on the flip side, those who don’t spend a ton might benefit more. At least from what it sounds like. I get the Spend $100, get $2 ones, 2% as you point out, but I don’t get it 98% of the time in the 30 days or whatever I have so I usually get nothing. If it changes to a point system over 90 days, I have a shot of getting a couple bucks here and there.
Yup. My usual offer was spend $75, get $2 off, so theoretically 2.7% off, but very often the earning period ended before I finished the spend, so I’d get nothing. With a 90 day earn period, it’s more likely I’ll actually earn the new 1% reward. So, reduced rewards but easier to earn.
Agreed. I used to be able to get at least 20% off gift cards with their $5 off $50 promo reward that they ran every couple months or so. Before I get attacked by mathematicians, I know that 5/50 is 10% but I was able to get 20%.
This change appears to be on the grocery purchase side, where gift cards don’t count anyway. I haven’t heard that they’ll be doing away with the $5 off $50 promos. I hope they don’t, I use those a lot.