It’s Christmas Holiday shopping season so everyone is trying to get you to shop on their cash back portal. Hilton HHonors is giving out an extra incentive just to sign into their online shopping mall by giving away 500 free points for the first 10,000.
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I have been embarrassed yet again by Discover Card holding up a checkout line at Whole Foods Market because they cannot seem to get Discover Card to work with their Apple Pay. This has happened twice now. The first time I got it to blink but it would not show up on the register as paid. It accepted my payment on my phone but not at the register and blinked. So odd. I then had the cashier transfer my transaction over to the customer service at the front of the store. It still would not work. I then called Discover Card to see if my card had a fraud alert on it. They acted like it should have worked and I had no fraud on my card so it was not on hold.
I used to be a big fan of Whole Foods and still love them more than Sprouts that sells food under the disguise that it’s natural. Sprouts takes the Apple Pay just fine though but I could do without the chemicals they put in their turkey. I really wish I could get this to work at Whole Foods and it’s frustrating. Especially since I drive 10 miles or so to get to Whole Foods. Target, Kroger and Walmart are closer and sell a lot of the same things now so I do not go there as often unless there’s a promotion like this one and that is why it’s such a big fail.
After the first embarrassment I thought I would try again a few weeks later thinking they had finally cleared up the problem. I went in my local Whole Foods tonight and it did not work again. Trying to get rewards or use coupons should not be this complicated especially at a high priced place such as Whole Foods. I have two Discover It cards and neither would work with the Apple Pay. (more…)
The success of ride-sharing startups is increasing along with on-call food-delivery services for restaurants that don’t have their own drivers. Some of these services offer not only food delivery but also favors such as bringing you a battery or picking up your suit from the cleaners.
Favor has announced it has reached one million deliveries nationwide. The delivery service no longer just delivers food. It connects people with personal assistants, called runners, who will fetch anything from batteries to burritos. Customers place their requests through Favor’s mobile phone apps, available for both iOS and Android platforms. It reports an average delivery time of 35 minutes. Favor currently makes deliveries in 15 markets in the U.S. and Canada. Go here for $5 off your first Favor Order.
Groupon-owned OrderUp launched recently in Orlando with around 60 drivers bringing food from restaurants to homes and businesses competing with local companies. Doorstep Delivery and Munchem are the local delivery services who are facing a growing threat from app-based services in the central Florida city which lacks Postmates for now. (more…)
American Express is has released new Twitter sync promotions to save money at participating merchants. Make sure that you sync these offers with your AMEX Card immediately as the number of available uses is limited. It’s kind of like any other freebie you find online you have to act fast. Just click the links below to allow you to Tweet directly from this page to sync these offers with your American Express card. My favorites now are Whole Foods especially because of Holiday gift cards and Christmas themed food products and desserts at the natural grocer.
Whole Foods Market –
Click Here to Tweet #AmexWFM to get $10 back 1x on single qual purch $60+ at Whole Foods w/cnctd Amex Card through 1/31/16 or while supplies last.
You may want to check your American Express card account to see if you received an offer from AirBnb this week. If not, you are still in luck because it’s one of the great Twitter promotions as well. You can save at least 50% off your first $100 spent on an AirBnB rental using this offer.
You get a $50 statement when you spend $100 or more on a synched American Express credit card through December 31, 2015. You can register as many American Express credit cards to use this offer more than once if you have more than one AMEX branded card. If you are not able to stay by the end of the year just make sure it charges your card to take advantage of the offer.
To get the offer from AirBnb and American Express:
Repeat at Step 2 to sync every American Express credit card you have with Twitter using the hashtag.
AirBnB is allowing gift cards for this offer so you may be able to use multiple AMEX cards to purchase a gift card then use that towards one stay. $50 off every $100 to rent a house could save you up to $250 if you have 5 American Express branded cards including Bluebird and Serve cards. Update to the gift card purchase is that they do not allow you to buy yourself a gift card and will not let you redeem it in the same account of purchase.
I plan to stay in an AirBnb in California this December and will use 4 separate AMEX cards for the stay with this offer by buying a gift card first. I will also get a $20 credit. The total savings should be $220 off my stay of 4 days.
See more hotel related promotions here.