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The deal: 2x, 3x, 4x (or rarely, 5x) Gas Points per GC at Stop and Shop and Giant stores. Sometimes it's all GCs, sometimes just one or two types. Be sure to look at the current circular carefully for details

Credit cards CAN now be used to purchase visa/MC/Amex gift cards. :D

You will not get any Stop & Shop points on Gift Cards that are bought when there is no promotion.

You can get 1 Gas Point for every dollar you spend at S&S, Giant or Peapod all the time, and there are usually a few options in the circular to get bonus points, besides GCs. Be sure to have your S&S card scanned before purchasing or you won't get any Gas Points. You usually have to pay for GCs at the Customer Service desk, which may or may not ask for ID.

Gas Points expire 30 days after they are earned. You can check your current balance by logging in here: http://www.stopandshop.com/savings-and-rewards/rewards-program/gas-rewards/. There is also quite a bit of good general information about how the program works at that link, including a way to look up participating Shell stations and Stop & Shop stores with gas stations.

Gas Points are redeemable at Stop & Shop stores with gas stations and at participating Shell stations only. Not all Shell stations participate. It is recommended that you find out about station participation before driving around looking for one with your gas light on. :)

The link above also has instructions about how to redeem your Gas Points at Shell both within and outside of NJ. (NJ outlaws self-service gas, so it has a little bit different procedure than in other states.)

The maximum redemption is 1500 points per fill, or $1.50 off per gallon, up to 20 gallons, but be aware that if you or the attendant enters your S&S card, your full point balance up to 1500 will be taken for any size fill. Any remaining points above 1500 will remain in your account. The minimum redemption is 100 points ($0.10 off/gal). Any discount you have available from the Fuel Rewards program is in addition to the Stop & Shop discount. For example, if you have 2000 Stop & Shop points and a $0.35 discount from Fuel Rewards, you can purchase gas for $1.85 off per gallon (the maximum $1.50 discount from Stop & Shop plus the Fuel Rewards discount).

Please use
your common sense and do not ruin this deal for others (and yourself) by doing various things that might antagonize or aggravate gas station attendants in your attempt to maximize the 20 gallon limit per redemption. (For instance, the official rules at the link above say that a redemption may be used for one vehicle only.)

Abusing this deal will only mean that gas station owners will be less likely to continue to participate, and that S&S and Shell will be less likely to continue the program going forward.

To get the Cash price without paying cash you can get a refillable shell GC here: http://www.shell.us/products-services/shell-cards/refillable.html
It's refillable online by Visa or Mastercard. Even better: buy a Shell GC at Staples using an Ink card, and get 5 points per dollar.

Ad preview http://www.livingrichwithcoupons.com/stop-and-shop-coupons/stop-shop-ad-preview or https://stopandshop.com/coupons-weekly-circular/weekly-circular/ or https://stopandshop.com/savings/weekly-ad/print-view

For better value, link Fuel Rewards to your Stop & Shop card.
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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1400 on: March 17, 2015, 04:05:04 PM »
Wowowow
You seriously contacted corporate about using cc for gc's???
Now I understand why they recently sent out a memo.. . 
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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1401 on: March 17, 2015, 04:17:35 PM »
Wowowow
You seriously contacted corporate about using cc for gc's???
Now I understand why they recently sent out a memo.. . 
Right, cuz they didnt realize it before.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1402 on: March 17, 2015, 04:22:03 PM »
Right, cuz they didnt realize it before.
???
How long have you been involved in the MS game? How many things have you watched come and go?
Obviously not many.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1403 on: March 17, 2015, 04:39:17 PM »
I generally agree with you, except when it comes to employees denying the purchase of products their stores are selling by allowable means. No store stocks things in the store that they don't want to sell, just like no store would accept credit cards if it was truly a bad deal for them.
I can say with 100% certainty that any store selling a 500 VS/MC GC on a CC will have a net loss on that sale.
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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1404 on: March 17, 2015, 04:40:06 PM »
I can say with 100% certainty that any store selling a 500 VS/MC GC on a CC will have a net loss on that sale.
not to argue with you, just a question, why do they carry them?

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1405 on: March 17, 2015, 04:40:25 PM »
not to argue with you, just a question, why do they carry them?
Loss leaders...
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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1406 on: March 17, 2015, 04:46:36 PM »
I can say with 100% certainty that any store selling a 500 VS/MC GC on a CC will have a net loss on that sale.

Let's assume you are right. Note my emphasis.

And yet stores continue to offer the cards for sale via CC.

Maybe because most people don't put $500 on the cards. Maybe because it is part of a big display of other kinds of GCs that they make money on. Maybe there are slotting fees and other placement incentives that giftcardmall and others pay outside of the retail sale itself to get the stores to display their cards. Maybe people coming into the store buy other stuff.

Whatever the calculation, either you have to admit that overall the stores make money with these products, or you have to believe that all the corporate MBAs that work in these companies are idiots.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1407 on: March 17, 2015, 04:48:57 PM »
not to argue with you, just a question, why do they carry them?
for gifts, not MS. some people don't get for $500 every time. One cashier always asks me if it's for a Bar Mitzva gift.
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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1408 on: March 17, 2015, 04:56:13 PM »
for gifts, not MS. some people don't get for $500 every time. One cashier always asks me if it's for a Bar Mitzva gift.
What do you say, no this time it's a wedding
I wonder what people who type "u" instead of "you" do with all their free time.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1409 on: March 17, 2015, 04:58:26 PM »
Whatever the calculation, either you have to admit that overall the stores make money with these products, or you have to believe that all the corporate MBAs that work in these companies are idiots unaware.
FTFY
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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1410 on: March 17, 2015, 05:00:18 PM »
What do you say, no this time it's a wedding
I don't know what to say. I don't want them to think too much. I just smile and exit.
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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1411 on: March 17, 2015, 05:00:23 PM »
Unaware that a product they carry causes them a loss? Then that is an idiot.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1412 on: March 17, 2015, 05:04:36 PM »
@ChaimMoskowitz

Unlikely, because it amounts to the same thing, like Freddie said. If they were truly unaware, they wouldn't be doing their jobs. They have all the sales data, all the people scanning their store-cards for gas rewards, etc. etc.

S&S makes official signs for gift cards: No more than $5,000 may be purchased per person per day, anything more than $2,000 needs to be done at the CS counter. They have policies and training of employees about ID, books where they record information about people who purchase a lot at once, etc. etc. They are NOT not thinking about this.

It is far more likely that they are aware of everything, and it is all still worthwhile at any particular moment to continue.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1413 on: March 17, 2015, 05:09:10 PM »
All I can say is:
I can say with 100% certainty that any store selling a 500 VS/MC GC on a CC will have a net loss on that sale.
I just found a new supply of forks!

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1414 on: March 17, 2015, 05:09:36 PM »
BTW, if stores were run by the government, then I would TOTALLY believe that they let stupid mistakes slide by untended to for years.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1415 on: March 17, 2015, 05:20:18 PM »
All I can say is:

I have too much respect for you, CM, to belabor the point.

Que sera, sera.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1416 on: March 17, 2015, 05:22:40 PM »
I have too much respect for you, CM, to belabor the point.

Que sera, sera.
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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1417 on: March 17, 2015, 05:23:02 PM »
BTW, nobody is saying that CM is wrong, chas v'shalom! Just that the stores know it's a net loss and keep it as a loss leader.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1418 on: March 17, 2015, 05:39:21 PM »
BTW, nobody is saying that CM is wrong, chas v'shalom! Just that the stores know it's a net loss and keep it as a loss leader.

Right - because loss leaders are a thing. They aren't a "mistake" or a secret.

They have a purpose, which is to actually make more money for the store than the store would make without loss leaders. EVERYTHING stores do is to make money, down to where they place the milk and eggs (in the back).

All we're saying is that this logic applies to GCs as well - whatever they are, however you look at them, they MUST be making money for the store in the big picture, otherwise something else would be taking up their space.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1419 on: March 17, 2015, 05:40:47 PM »
I know Target got all my Walmart business a few months ago.