pyro123 said:
wrong.. Please read

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The guys doesn't know how to spell 'grocerries' and has very indirect relationship with Chase... Please find a better source.

pyro123 said:craig10x said:supermarkets most definately DO qualify...just not the superstore types like superwalmart, etc that sell food items....Here in NYC, i shop at Food Emporium, which is a chain supermarket owned by A & P (not a grocery store)...i get my 5% all the time!

You can't go by the coding, either..they usually appear as "Other" but you still get the bonus...

wrong.. Please read

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Not wrong...the only 5% purchases i make are when i swipe my card at Food Emporium which is a supermarket...Chase considers supermarkets the same as grocery stores for qualifying for the 5%....i have no car, so i don't get the 5% for gas...and i rarely use my card for the drugs stores.....i don't care what that link says...if I could show you my statement, you would see for yourself....my food emporium purchases are listed with those bonus points as clear as a bell....what's right...a stupid article or my statement with the points on it????

pyro123 said:My mistake, i doublechecked with chase and supermarkets are considered groceries and still qualify under the 5% rewards.. Initially, i got a rep that gave me the wrong info.

No problem ...i just didn't want people to think that supermarkets are no longer considered in the 5% catagory...i know i do get the extra points every statement (i use the card at the supermarket every week)....the confusion is because they are no longer giving 5% for certain types of super-department stores that also sell food items, and many are mis-interpreting it to mean that no supermarkets count anymore...

Dave, he could try calling and asking, but tell him not to get his hopes up...while it was quite easy to convert from one to another (ex: cash plus to rewards plus) and i had done it myself in the past, but that was when the cards were still being actively marketed...now that they aren't anymore...from what i have seen of past posters on fw, they were not successful in getting them to convert at this point...

Chase is very nice about converting rewards programs, as long as they are still in active marketing phase....

Thanks for the help craig10x.

Was going to suggest he call and try too, but knowing how folks get different answers to questions like this, and with his lacking a speakerphone , I thought I'd see if we could get at least one recent success story.

So I have chase rewards plus, but CSR is saying I didn't get 5% on the following gas stations:

RACETRAC504 00005041(Vehicle Expenses)
KROGER FUEL #7577 Q66(Vehicle Expenses)

WTH??? Then the guy has the nerve to tell me to call up racetrac and find out why.

Also he said this did qualify:

KROGER #0577 SL9(Other)

Even though it's listed as other. He said there is no way for me to find out online what qualifies unless i call in.

AlexTheMan said:I used also to get 5% at Super WalMart's and Super Target's using my Chase Cash Plus since I got the card back in 2005. This seems to have ended as of my May's statement. Well, it was good while it lasted.

FYI - I was also disappointed with the loss of 5% at Wal-Mart so I started using my Citi Diamond Preferred card. Last month it gave me 5% back in Thank You points for Wal-Mart purchases so that's what we'll continue using for now until that 5% well dries up. Other Citi cards may work but I haven't tried them. I may also try my Simplicity card to see if that works.

GeneValgene said:i may be late on this discussion, but i did receive a statement in the mail saying stores like super walmarts and super targets are no longer classified as grocery stores
Yes, you are way late. See Snakebit12's post on 4/4/2007.

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Grifman said:pyro123 said:My mistake, i doublechecked with chase and supermarkets are considered groceries and still qualify under the 5% rewards.. Initially, i got a rep that gave me the wrong info.

What's the difference between a grocery store and a supermarket? Where I live we use the same term for both.

The difference is often supermarkets are larger in physical size, and often carry a large variety of stuff, and that they are part of large chains (grocery stores are usually smaller, individually owned places)....

Chase is just no longer covering super department stores that carry food as well, like say, Super-WalMart....

But for rewards purposes, there is no difference between a grocery store and a supermarket....

I haven't had any problems getting the full 5% with RaceTrac. They do show that way before a statement is issued though.