On the Path(ward) to extra grocery store rewards

Every so often changes are made in the gift card game that can have both positive and negative effects.

One example of a negative effect is that a nationwide grocery store chain might change the issuer of certain cards, going from a bank that you might find at high Altitude to one that sounded like it’s the bank of Facebook’s parent company before recently changing their name to something that sounds like it might be a route through a hospital. The reason that would be a negative effect is because it can be hard for some people to be able to use those specific cards to buy pieces of paper.

While that kind of change will be disappointing in some ways, whenever there are changes of this nature you might find that things don’t work in the way you might expect them to, but in a way that works in your favor. This can fuel your opportunity to earn more rewards; for example, you might want to ensure you clip digital coupons that you might otherwise not normally bother clipping.

And yes, there’s a deliberate reason why I’m being vague about this. And no, there’s no need to comment below to ask “Does this mean xxxx store is offering xxxx when buying xxxx.” Give things a try to see what works.

Thanks to ZinCO who commented on a separate post to mention that there might happen to be an opportunity such as this. These kinds of things don’t last though, so if you’re going to test out purchases, you might want to do that sooner rather than later.