(EXPIRED) Tops: Buy $50 Groceries & Get $10 Off $50 Select Gift Cards (Best Buy, GameStop & More)

Update 12/20/20: Last few days for this deal.

Update 12/13/20: This offer is still around.

Update 11/29/20: This deal is still around for another 4 weeks.

Update 11/17/20: Just a quick reminder that this offer is still on and is around for another 6 weeks or so.

The Deal

• Buy $50+ groceries at Tops & get $10 off $50 gift cards for the following brands:
  • Best Buy
  • Kohl’s
  • JCPenney
  • Macy’s
  • Old Navy
  • Gap
  • Banana Republic
  • GameStop
  • Fandango
  • Staples
  • Spafinder
  • Panera
  • Cabela’s
  • Bass Pro Shops
  • Applebee’s
  • Moe’s Southwest Grill
  • Chili’s
  • Buffalo Wild Wings
  • Barnes & Noble
  • Outback Steakhouse
  • Carrabba’s
  • Bonefish Grill
• Direct link to weekly ad.

Key Terms

• Expires December 24, 2020.
• Redeem Gift Points through  December 31, 2020.
• Limit one $10 Gift Point discount per participating Christmas Bonus Gift Card purchased.
• Earn one Gift Point for every qualifying purchase of $50 or more.
• Limit one earned Gift Point per transaction and one per household every six hours.
• $50 minimum purchase must be made in a single transaction; smaller purchases cannot be combined to qualify.
• Minimum purchase must be met after all discounts are subtracted from order and before sales tax is added.
• The following do not count toward the minimum purchase requirement:
  • Milk (PA only due to state law)
  • Alcohol
  • Tobacco
  • Gift cards
  • All pharmacy prescriptions (NY only)
  • State & federally funded pharmacy prescriptions
  • All office services
  • Lottery tickets
  • Amusement park tickets
  • Other tickets
• Excludes purchases made at Tops fuel stations, convenience stores and in-store Tim Hortons or Starbucks locations.
• All gift cards must be activated with a $50 value to be eligible for the $10 discount; offer not valid on any other values.

Tips & Ideas

The way this works is that when you buy $50 or more of groceries, you earn 1 Gift Point. Those Gift Points can then be redeemed for $10 off a $50 gift card from the brands listed above.

This is therefore a great deal seeing as it means you can save 20% on brands like Best Buy which will make it nicely profitable for reselling. Even better is the fact that you can earn Gift Points through December 24, so there’s plenty of time to earn them.

The downside is that you have to spend $50 on groceries in order to earn the Gift Points. Still, it might be worth stocking up on items if Tops is your regular grocery store to earn as many points as you can.

There’s something I’m not sure about, so hopefully someone who’s familiar with how this yearly promotion at Tops works can chime in. The ad says you earn 1 gift point for every grocery purchase of $50 or more. Does that mean that spending $100 on groceries only earns you 1 gift point, or is it worded badly in the ad and you actually earn 1 gift point for every $50 spent on groceries? If it’s the former, it’d be best to split your groceries into separate $50 transactions when doing a large shop. Update: Thanks to Randy’s comment below, I’ve added the full terms of this offer above. You can only earn 1 Gift Point every 6 hours, so buying $100 or more of groceries in the same transaction will only earn you 1 Point.