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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Using 95 air miles to get $10 of groceries is probably the best deal there is. Therefore I just keep redeeming $10 at a time and my air miles never accumulate. And this week at Safeway you get 25 miles back when you redeem 95, so really only 70.
Just look for small deals. Like 30 miles for 6 $2 box of crackers that you would have bought anyways. That's $3!
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I used to do that, GirlySports: use the card for "small deals". However, usually the "small deals" were NOT for "things I would have bought anyway", and the earning rate otherwise—1 mile for $20 spent—is so paltry it's pointless. If you're not buying those "buy two of ____ and get 30 bonus miles" things on a regular basis then the $10 cash for 95 miles deal =
$1,900 worth of spending. (!!!) 0.5% cashback at that point; whoop-de-####ing-do!