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Say Good-bye to Miles for Groceries
(Posted: Jan 25, 2010)
Effective Feb. 28, 2010, Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan, American Airlines AAdvantage, Continental Airlines OnePass and United Airlines Mileage Plus members will no longer earn miles for grocery shopping at Safeway, Vons, Dominicks, Pavilions, Randalls, Tom Thumb or Genuardi.
Members can continue earning 125 miles per $250 spent at participating grocery stores until the end of February but beginning on March 1, you won't be earning one mile for every $2 spent on groceries.
Now the only way to earn miles for buying food will be to use a mileage-earning credit card when checking out and most of those have high annual fees, but there are some airline debit cards and hotel loyalty cards with low or no annual fees.
LINK: http://www.webflyer.com/link/?2187
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Previous comments:
Jaimyon P.
posted: Jan 26, 2010 at 11:44am (MT)
I am actually sitting at a Safeway right now where this printed on my receipt:
"Our Airline Rewards Program ends 2/28. Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles are no longer earned on purchases as of 3/1/10."
So... No more PowerPump Rewards, no more miles. I guess I'll be shopping more at Kroger family stores like QFC and Fred Meyer.
Rob
posted: Feb 1, 2010 at 12:56pm (MT)
Odd how Jaimyon's comment appears to have been copied, pasted, and modified from the third post on this flyertalk thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/alaska-airlines-mileage-plan/1043190-ua-aa-co-leaving-safeway-miles-thru-shopping-too.html
Tina
posted: Feb 4, 2010 at 9:20pm (MT)
The only reason I shop at Vons is for United mileage points, beginning March 2010...Stater Brothers and Albertson's become my grocery stores.
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