The Deal
- Buy $50 Choice gift cards at Smart & Final & get $10 off your next purchase.
- Direct link to weekly ad.
Key Terms
- Expires August 15, 2023.
- Limit of one $10 coupon per customer/transaction.
- Coupon will print on bottom of register receipt.
- Coupon must be redeemed by August 22, 2023.
Tips & Ideas
This is an excellent deal as it’s not often that you can save an effective 20% on brands like Best Buy and Apple. It’s just a shame that it’s only valid on $50 denominations and that there’s a limit of one per transaction as that makes scaling it a little more hassle. I’m not familiar with Smart & Final, but hopefully you can buy at self checkout to make it easier to buy as many as you like within your ability to redeem the $10 coupons by August 22.
Smart and Final does not have self-checkout. However, I have never — across multiple So. Cal. locations — had an issue doing multiple gift card purchases sequentially regardless of the stated limit. I have also had no issue buying closed-loop GCs with open-loop GCs.
One heads up, though. According to a S&F manager I spoke with, Smart and Final has had a severe issue with Apple gift card fraud (similar to the issues that have arisen at Target), where the activation code on the outside of the packaging does not match the card inside, or the card is otherwise compromised. Some S&F locations have started keeping Apple cards in the manager’s office, and you have to ask for them. Others have stopped stocking them altogether. If you are getting an Apple card from an open rack at S&F, I would only get it for personal use, opening it before purchase to make sure the numbers inside and outside match, and loading it into your Apple balance immediately. I would only purchase Apple gift cards for resale from locations that keep the cards locked away.