saving on gas while shopping!

[streetcarp]

Safeway and its sister stores have a program called, PowerPump that allows you to earn gas rewards every time you purchase groceries. As long as you use your Safeway card, you accumulate gas rewards until you use them at the pump. Has anyone used this program before???

[MomToTwoBoys]

That must be a US only thing because the Safeway here doesn't do it. I know you can qualify for a certain amount off your next gas purchase but that's a one-time thing.

[DonnainME]

Shaw's in Maine has a gas lowering program too. I think it's a ONE use thing too. Once I saved .20 per gallon.

[dcompton]

What some stores are doing here is giving you a discount on house brands if you spend $35 on gas. That bugs me, because I always fill the tank when it's half or 3/4 empty, and even at our highest prices I never spent that much at a time on gas. Now I'm glad I wasn't spending that much on gas, but the discount for some other reason would be nice. I don't know if you could combine receipts or if it had to be a single fill up, but even so, I use so little gas it wouldn't be very helpful.

[C@rol]

First I've heard of it.

[Minner77]

Don't recall all of the details, but I do know that once you accumulate $100 in store spending in a quarter you're entitled to 10 cents off per gallon at the pump. If you choose not to take that discount the first time you're allowed to, it goes up to 20 cents with your next $100, then 30 cents, and so forth. There's a limit, but I don't recall it. I regularly shop at Safeway using gift certificates that pay a percentage back into our son's soccer club account, so I joyfully collect my 10 cent/gallon discount whenever I fuel up. I see no point in waiting for the 20 cents.

I see the point in being disappointed if you're only getting 1/4 gallon or so, but you can decline until you're getting more in the tank.

~Mary

[Natalie]

Fred Meyer's here does that. It's usually 3 cents off per gallon any old time you use their discount card at the pump, but when you've gotten 100 points from buying groceries, you get 10 or 15 cents off a gallon, I think it is.

[madhen]

I've done the Safeway thing, and Raley's/Bel Air has .25/gallon off if you spend $100 or more in one shopping trip. (I think it is .10/gallon if you spend $50-$99.) The only problem with both Safeway and Raley's, in my area, is you have to use THEIR gas stations, and not all the stores have the gas stations, so you might earn your "reward" at one, but have to go well out of your way to claim it.

[lotsadebt]

Here in Ohio/Pa, Giant Eagle has Fuel Perks it is 10 cents off per gallon for every 50$ that you spend. You can earn on any purchase from Pharmacy, groceries and gift cards. Periodically they up the ante for 20 cent/gallon when you buy 50$ in gift cards.

When you purchase the gas, I have gotten SEVERAL free tanks of gas. You have 30 gallon limit that you can purchase. I take our bigger vehicle and then gas cans. I fill up the max on whatever discount I am getting. Then we pour the canned gas into DH's car. The cans will fill up his car too.

Check the fine print of the offer as to can you accumulate $ off. Here we can, up until 90 days. Then you have to redeem or lose your $ off. Also check the gallon limit.

[frugalnana]

The only grocery store here that does this is Krogers. You buy so much and get so much cents off at the pump.
We have a Sheetz here and we by gas there or dh buys his cigs and gum and it adds up to cents off. We already got a full tank free.