(EXPIRED) US Supermarkets Amex Offer: Earn 5% Back On Up To $200 Of Spend

The Deal

• Earn 5% as a statement credit when making purchases in-store or online at US supermarkets with a targeted Amex Offer.

Key Terms

• Expires August 31, 2020.
• Limit of $10 in total statement credits.
• Offer valid for in-store and online eligible purchases at U.S. Supermarkets. An “eligible purchase” means a purchase made with your enrolled Card at a U.S. supermarket location by 8/31/2020.
• “Supermarket” means a standalone merchant in the U.S. primarily selling supermarket products.
• Excludes gasoline purchases and gift card purchases.
• Specialty Food Stores, Superstores, and Warehouse Clubs are not considered Supermarket stores.

Tips & Ideas

This offer appears to be targeted as my wife had it available on one of her cards but I didn’t have it on any of mine. It’ll be a very popular offer for those targeted, so load it ASAP in case there are limits on how many people can enroll in the offer.

The nice thing is that Shae had it on her Amex Gold card, so we’ll earn 5% back in addition to the 4x Membership Rewards that the card earns on grocery spend.

Note that one of the terms excludes gift card purchases. Seeing as they’ve specifically included that wording, Amex will presumably be enforcing that when getting Level 3 data from grocery stores. This offer is therefore a better option when used to pay for groceries given how clawback-happy Amex is and using a card like the Chase Freedom for gift card purchases seeing as that’s offering 5% this quarter.

With a limit of $10 back, you’ll max this out when spending $200 at grocery stores. With more than four months to do that, it shouldn’t be a problem maxing out that $10 statement credit limit.