Gas Deals
I’m not sure if they have this in all states, but sometimes this program really saves me a lot on gas money for my car, which happens to be a small SUV. It is smaller, but it still gobbles a little more gas than your average sedan, so I do try to find gasoline deals whenever I can so I have extra expendable income on things I actually want to buy, instead of things that are a necessity (who likes spending money on that, it’s no fun!)
The card I’m speaking of is the Giant Eagle grocery store chains’ “Advantage card”. It’s just like all the other major grocer chain’s member cards, in that you present the card when you are buying your groceries, or scan it in when you are going through self checkout lines, and it keeps track of how much you are spending with each trip. The bottom line is, for every fifty dollars you spend, you receive ten cents off each gallon of gas at their special Giant Eagle sponsored “Get Go” gas stations.
It may not seem like a lot, but when you have a family or you just consume a lot of groceries, it sure does add up. Once I went to get gas and found that I have a whopping two dollars off of each gallon! Of course, that was after a few months of heavy shopping, but you get my drift - it’s worth having and is probably one of the most genius marketing ploys I’ve ever heard of.
I often wonder how they even make money off of it, but they must somehow, because their gas stations are always packed every time I go to get gas at one of their gas stations. I bet many of the gas credit cards that are out there offer similar benefits, I just have yet to look into that because I happen to have the special Giant Eagle gas station right by me, and a Giant Eagle right by me as well, so convenience is a huge factor in this case.
Another cool thing about the Giant Eagle advantage card and gasoline program is that many times they run promotions where if you buy a gift card through them (they sell many, for many stores from Best Buy to Toys R Us), they will double your gasoline points, so you end up really making out if you end up purchasing your gift cards for people as gifts from them.
The best gas credit cards out there (do your research) are probably the way to go these days while the gas prices are so high, you just never know how much you’re saving until you really sit down and add up how much you spend on gas each week, especially for those of us who have long commutes to work (like me).
