Earn Frequent Flyer Miles For Grocery Shopping
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The Safeway family of grocery stores has a pretty neat program tied to their loyalty card — you can earn frequent flyer miles on your grocery purchases at absolutely no additional cost or effort. While the earnings aren’t huge — one mile for every two dollars spent — given how often I find myself at the grocery store, I have not been surprised to find the miles add up over time.
How To Earn Frequent Flyer Miles For Grocies
The Safeway family consists of the Safeway, Dominick’s, Vons, Genuardi’s, Pavilions, Tom Thumb, and Randalls.
The exact details of the promotion depend on what your neighborhood Safeway-family chain happens to be:
- For Safeway, Dominick’s, Vons, Genuardi’s, or Pavilions, you can earn 125 United MileagePlus Miles every time you spend $250. That comes out to 1 mile for every 2 dollars spent, posted in $250 increments directly to your account. To sign up, head to http://www.grocerymiles.com/.
- For Tom Thumb, you can earn 250 American Airlines AAdvantage MIles every time you spend $250. That comes out to 1 mile for every 1 dollar spent, posted in $250 increments. To sign up, head to http://www.frequentbuyermiles.com/tomthumb/.
- For Randalls, you can earn 125 American Airlines AAdvantage Miles every time you spend $250. That comes to 1 mile for every 2 dollars. To sign up, head to http://www.frequentbuyermiles.com/randalls/.
Once you sign-up, everything will be automatic. Simply use your grocery loyalty card to accumulate credit; every time you checkout, your receipt will update you on how close you are to your next award. Once you cross $250, they will be automatically posted to your account. Pretty cool!
Too Much Trouble? No.
Think that frequent flyer miles are too much trouble? Or is 1 mile per 2 dollars simply not worth it to you? Think again!
- This is free - it costs you absolutely nothing — its an additional benefit from Safeway to their existing offers for customers.
- This is automatic - it costs you no time once you sign-up. No follow-up — they’ll post automatically.
- This is a great way to keep miles alive. One of the chief complaints about frequent flyer miles (after availability and taxes) concerns expiration. Did you know that any activity will keep your United or American account open for another 18 months? If you’re like me, you’ll spend well more than $250 in 18 months at the grocery store, so you might as well use that as a way to keep those miles around.
- It adds up. It is not fun to think about how much we spend at grocery stores, but its true.
Great Safeway Customer Service
Finally, I just want to make a quick comment about the great customer service that Safeway provides — they have people answering emails from 7 AM to 10 PM MST Monday-Friday and they promise a quick turn around. When I emailed them this afternoon, I heard back within a few hours from a real person who had taken care of making an adjustment to my account. Really seems unheard of these days, so I think it is worth a quick recognition.
(Not a big grocery shopper? Don’t forget, you can also earn frequent flyer miles for dining out!)
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