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The Offer
- Rakuten is offering increased in-store cashback rates when adding the offer to a linked card:
- 3% at at Walmart, Best Buy, Sam’s Club; valid through August 7th
- 7.5% back at Rite Aid
- 9% at Ulta
- 15% at Macy’s and H&M
- Many more 15% stores there and other deals as well
Our Verdict
Nice rate for top brands. You can sign up for Rakuten now with a $30 bonus, see this post.
Hat tip joghi
Rite Aid looks good for about 15% off total if using Chase Offer (mine is 5%) on a freedom unlimited/flex (3% drugstore card benefit), and Rakuten in-store (7.5%).
Too bad the Rite Aid stores by me only sell $200 VGC/MCGC with $6.95 fee
Has anyone tried stacking this with Cash app debit card 5% Sam’s online which apparently gets triggered by scan and go.
Per terms Rakutens cashback will work only if debit card is run as credit without using PIN. How does one do that?
Sams Club: cash back is not available on:
Alcohol
All Consumables (Food/Grocery, etc)
Fuel
Gift Cards
Household Essentials
Membership renewals
My Pillow Products
Pharmacy
Scan & go purchases
Tire
Tobacco
Video Games
Video Game Console & Accessories
So basically nothing qualifies for any cash back at Sams
Thanks for sharing. But where did you get the message? I checked the fine print and cannot find that message above.
Pretty sure that’s for online, not in-store.
The timing is quite interesting…they cancel their credit card…so you can’t get that extra 3%…then begin these offers. Oh…well. It was good while it lasted. WWJD
Anybody know if Rakuten can actually tell you bought gc in store at bestbuy?
..or walmat??
Bought groceries + gift cards at Walmart yesterday and the full amount tracked this morning. Even got the 3% when I was only expecting 1% if it tracked at all. Hopefully they don’t claw it back before payout.
Which kind of GCs did you buy? Walmart GC or Visa/Mastercard GC? Thanks.
Walmart GCs.
I tried using it in Walgreens before and it worked.
Yeah, but are they going to pull a Dosh account claw back? Is worth the risk?
The 7.5% at rite aid looks promising if it works with gift cards since chase will also give 10%. I am assuming I can link a chase card and get both for a gift card. I will report back if it works or not.
A $55 uber gift card and travel size shaving cream tracked at rakuten for the amount at 7.5%. Still pending on chase for the 10%, but that is not a worry.
Could you clarify what potential clawback scenario do you mean?
AFAIK currently Dosh is not offering any instore cashback for purchases at Sam’s and Walmart.
So no chance of double dip.
Are you concerned about that ?
DP Update: 3rd party GCs tracked fine through Rakuten at BestBuy, account credited on the same day