topic Re: Discover It -- 2% on groceries through September in Credit Cards

Discover It -- 2% on groceries through September

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 18:53:14 GMT

Logged into Discover today and found a surprise--a new rewards option, asking me to activate 2% cashback at stand-alone grocery stores. It lasts through 9/30/16, and only applies up to $500 in purchases per month. Once activated, there's also a rewards tracker telling you what from the current month fell into this category, which I like--too bad Discover doesn't have that for all their rewards categories!

Anyone else seeing this on their account? It's not the most useful thing in the world for me, but still a nice option to have.

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Re: Discover It -- 2% on groceries through September

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 18:43:08 GMT

I don't have it.

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BigBS — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 18:47:34 GMT

Nothing for me either. Did notice a couple of BT offers, though.

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Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 18:56:53 GMT

I don't have it either that's probably to offset the freedom users like myself who's 5% groceries started April 1st since discover doesn't do groceries for 5% this year. I wish I got that email cause after June 30th is use it considering I'm also getting double cashback my first year that would have been great

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Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 18:58:32 GMT

I've got it on my account as well. I definitely activated it!

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barthooper — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:01:26 GMT

I'm wondering if "2% Cashback Bonus" refers to a bonus 2% on top of the base? If so that would be amazing when combined with the double cashback. Otherwise even after doubling to 4% it still loses out to my Sallie Mae. That's really neat of Discover to do though and the tracking aspect is fascinating, and should be implemented elsewhere!

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Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:01:35 GMT

For the people who have it are u currently in the after one year we double your cashback phase?

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lord_kinbote — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:03:18 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I don't have it.

Ditto.

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Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:12:25 GMT

@barthooper wrote:
I'm wondering if "2% Cashback Bonus" refers to a bonus 2% on top of the base? If so that would be amazing when combined with the double cashback. Otherwise even after doubling to 4% it still loses out to my Sallie Mae. That's really neat of Discover to do though and the tracking aspect is fascinating, and should be implemented elsewhere!

Seems doubtful. They refer to their 5% rotating categories as 5% cashback, not 4% additional.

Re: Discover It -- 2% on groceries through September

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:14:54 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I don't have it either that's probably to offset the freedom users like myself who's 5% groceries started April 1st since discover doesn't do groceries for 5% this year. I wish I got that email cause after June 30th is use it considering I'm also getting double cashback my first year that would have been grI'm

I'm definitely curious whether their rationale is Freedom-related--though if it is, it's not like 2% can compete with 5%, so that would be odd.

I didn't get an email about it, btw--it only showed up when I went to check my account online, in the same place where you normally activate the 5% category for the quarter.

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Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:28:39 GMT

I just looked in my account where the 5% cashback is and still nada for me

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Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:45:50 GMT

I don't have that, but it's ok because my groceries are going on my AMEX for better rewards.

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kdm31091 — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:48:33 GMT

Don't have it, but 2% doesn't really mean much to me anyway.

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Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:53:18 GMT

Nothing here, either. I wonder if it's just a marketing ploy for anyone earning double cashback for the first year.

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barthooper — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:53:31 GMT

Good catch. Thanks! Perhaps they'll do this again in the future with various categories.

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Anonymous — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 20:48:58 GMT

I didn't get it either but I'll bet it does have everything to do with the Freedom's 5 percent cat.

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Anonymous — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:54:11 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
For the people who have it are u currently in the after one year we double your cashback phase?

Nope, no double cashback for me (alas).

Re: Discover It -- 2% on groceries through September

gdale6 — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 00:55:05 GMT

Didnt get on the 2% back deal that a lot of you did last year. I do have the offer but have been unable to activate it, it throws techincal errors try again later, I have never gotten any of these offers before but I also have never SD the card for 3 months like I did Jan-Mar as their 5% on gas was useless to me with my 2 Sallie Maes. Doesnt matter if I activate it or not as I wont be using it with the dual Sallie Maes and an AU on a Freedom as well.

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Anonymous — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 01:06:58 GMT

@gdale6 wrote:
Didnt get on the 2% back deal that a lot of you did last year. I do have the offer but have been unable to activate it, it throws techincal errors try again later, I have never gotten any of these offers before but I also have never SD the card for 3 months like I did Jan-Mar as their 5% on gas was useless to me with my 2 Sallie Maes. Doesnt matter if I activate it or not as I wont be using it with the dual Sallie Maes and an AU on a Freedom as well.

Weird that it's not going through for you! Yeah, it's not really worth it for me either--groceries go on BCE if the store takes Amex, BOA Cash Rewards or Citi DC if they don't. Discover is nice because of their lack of redemption threshold, but otherwise there's no advantage.

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Anonymous — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 10:29:51 GMT

I've had my Discover for 15 years so I'm not on the double cah back promo for new users. But the 2% cash back for groceries did show up for me. I got an error message when I clicked to sign up so I called in and the CSR said it showed that I was already sighed up for it so it must have gone through anyway.