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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 #1040 on: August 19, 2014, 10:36:01 AM »
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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1041 on: August 20, 2014, 10:01:44 PM »
if you folks continue to go to CS desk to get 1x points, they will deny you the buying of VGC with a CC. Then ad specifically shows the cards that are part of the promo this week. Whew!!Why aggravate them?. Just wait for the promo or buy w/o points for 5x on CC. I don't go nuts over this. You make it bad for others.. please...Thank G-- I don't live in metro NY, but have plenty of S&S that have just reloaded their CC displays with more metabank cards, after being out for weeks.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1042 on: August 21, 2014, 01:24:07 AM »
if you folks continue to go to CS desk to get 1x points, they will deny you the buying of VGC with a CC. Then ad specifically shows the cards that are part of the promo this week. Whew!!Why aggravate them?. Just wait for the promo or buy w/o points for 5x on CC. I don't go nuts over this. You make it bad for others.. please...Thank G-- I don't live in metro NY, but have plenty of S&S that have just reloaded their CC displays with more metabank cards, after being out for weeks.
Which CC?  (a bit OT, sorry). 

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1043 on: August 21, 2014, 08:29:44 AM »
Which CC?  (a bit OT, sorry).

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1045 on: August 21, 2014, 07:57:19 PM »
I picked up a Visa GC at SnS earlier this week (Sunday). I asked the cashier if it would credit the 5x gas points. She said she didn't know and suggested I ask customer service before I buy. The CSA hadn't previously seen the ad, pulled it out, read it, and had the same reaction most of us had ("this really isn't clear...they don't tell you which are and which are not included). She said go ahead and buy it and if it doesn't credit the gas points, she will ask manager if ok to manually credit, which is what subsequently happened.   Then I asked if amazon GC would be included.  She said she didn't know, but it would make sense it might be, since it is more like the pictured cards and wouldn't seem to be explicitly excluded.  (I asked if they got any additional info from corporate office and she said, are you kidding? They don't tell us anything. ).  So, I went ahead and bought a $500 amazon GC, which also did not give points.   I asked if she could manually credit. She then called her manager again, who was less happy about this, and said they couldn't manually add any more points, but said they would do it this one time for me.  I was very grateful, respectful, and the interaction ended positively. 

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1046 on: August 21, 2014, 08:00:50 PM »
I picked up a Visa GC at SnS earlier this week (Sunday). I asked the cashier if it would credit the 5x gas points. She said she didn't know and suggested I ask customer service before I buy. The CSA hadn't previously seen the ad, pulled it out, read it, and had the same reaction most of us had ("this really isn't clear...they don't tell you which are and which are not included). She said go ahead and buy it and if it doesn't credit the gas points, she will ask manager if ok to manually credit, which is what subsequently happened.   Then I asked if amazon GC would be included.  She said she didn't know, but it would make sense it might be, since it is more like the pictured cards and wouldn't seem to be explicitly excluded.  (I asked if they got any additional info from corporate office and she said, are you kidding? They don't tell us anything. ).  So, I went ahead and bought a $500 amazon GC, which also did not give points.   I asked if she could manually credit. She then called her manager again, who was less happy about this, and said they couldn't manually add any more points, but said they would do it this one time for me.  I was very grateful, respectful, and the interaction ended positively.
I think we should all agree not to do this from now on. 1x gas points are nice, but prob not worth s&s cracking down on gc purchases.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1047 on: August 21, 2014, 08:05:40 PM »
I think we should all agree not to do this from now on. 1x gas points are nice, but prob not worth s&s cracking down on gc purchases.
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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1048 on: August 21, 2014, 08:34:50 PM »
Nothing in the coming weeks circular?

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1049 on: August 21, 2014, 08:53:48 PM »
Nothing in the coming weeks circular?
probably not, as the current promo still valid

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1050 on: August 24, 2014, 11:13:27 PM »
I think we should all agree not to do this from now on. 1x gas points are nice, but prob not worth s&s cracking down on gc purchases.
Yes, I agree. The first $500 Visa GC was innocent, and they were nice enough to grant me the 5x. I should have walked away, or if I was going to try the Amazon card, shouldn't have gone for $500.  Greed got the better of me.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1051 on: August 24, 2014, 11:21:57 PM »
Yes, I agree. The first $500 Visa GC was innocent, and they were nice enough to grant me the 5x. I should have walked away, or if I was going to try the Amazon card, shouldn't have gone for $500.  Greed got the better of me.


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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1052 on: August 28, 2014, 02:34:42 PM »
Anyone have an issue buying Visa Gift Cards at S&S?
I went to my local store and the CSR rep tells me his manager told him this morning that I was flagged and cannot purchase any GCs in the store.
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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1053 on: August 28, 2014, 02:37:58 PM »
Why would you want to get now visa gift cards in the first place. ? There is no promo going now . so you get no points. This week you get 5X points on hot buffalo wings gift card

About getting  banned. They know you by name or your face ? Go a different time of the day

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1054 on: August 28, 2014, 02:40:37 PM »

Why would you want to get now visa gift cards in the first place. ?
Either he has thresholds to meet or he gets bonus points in grocery stores.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1055 on: August 28, 2014, 02:44:14 PM »
Either he has thresholds to meet or he gets bonus points in grocery stores.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1056 on: August 28, 2014, 02:51:54 PM »

About getting  banned. They know you by name or your face ? Go a different time of the day

Yes most if not all of the CSR there know me by now...

The manager said it came from "corporate" not sure what that means.
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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1057 on: August 28, 2014, 03:00:05 PM »
I don't buy that. In my local store there is a small sign with there rules about buying gift cards. As I remember they don't ask for ID under $2k . so they should not give you trouble buying under $2k at a time.

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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1058 on: August 28, 2014, 03:01:34 PM »
Anyone have an issue buying Visa Gift Cards at S&S?
I went to my local store and the CSR rep tells me his manager told him this morning that I was flagged and cannot purchase any GCs in the store.
Anyone else banned/flagged?  How much and how often did you buy?  Could it have been the talking with CSR to get the extra points that set it off?


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Re: Gift Card and gas Promo at Stop & Shop or Giant
« Reply #1059 on: August 28, 2014, 03:01:50 PM »
I don't buy that. In my local store there is a small sign with there rules about buying gift cards. As I remember they don't ask for ID under $2k . so they should not give you trouble buying under $2k at a time.

True, but I normally try not to buy under $2k
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