Yeah, I don't get it, blueberries, honeydew and pineapples. They always used to have a ton, now either none or really crappy ones. Everything else they always have good stock of at good prices.That sucks ... I love blueberries in particular.
Having said that I really didn't have trouble getting fresh fruit at any point although there were issues with nearly everything else!
Went shopping 2 days ago and the fresh produce section of Stop & Shop (Northeast US grocery chain) was stuffed to the gills for late winter.
No freaking vanilla Haagen-Daz though damnit!
If you're open to the credit card, that adds a few more percent on top.
I mainly use Costco for gas.
I use my Citi Costco card for travel and restaurants in addition to Costco purchases. For travel and restaurants it returns 3%. Do you have a CC that does better?
100% keep the Executive Membership. Use the card to get gas at Costco (if it's near you). We MAKE $300 or so a year just from doing that, and it pays for our membership + free stuff.
Costco has their own mean processing plant and they mostly use US beef. They also have strict standards and their meat tends to be a bit higher quality than Sam's.
Gas counts for the card (and is 4% IIRC), not for the executive membership rebate, which is 2%.
We have a "steak night" one night a week at our house. We cook our steaks in an air fryer and then reverse sear them on a grill pan. Works perfectly every time, and they are delicious. We get all our steaks at Costco, either fillet or NY strip. They are excellent, always tender, no gristle, and well marbled. They are actually much higher quality than you often get at a chain restaurant like Outback.
My chase cards in tandem with discover rotating usually do better. I try to focus my spend for chase UR points although their pay yourself back was just scaled back. With United devaluing as well I'm starting to wonder if I should move to Amex and Delta.
I can't decode your message there. I do have a Chase Freedom CC with rotating quarterly categories for 5% back, but I haven't seen them honoring restaurants or qualifying travel. Right now, until June 30 it honors Amazon.com and Lowes. I'm not near a Lowes but my recent business with Amazon is with my Chase Freedom card for 5% cash back. My Discover CC is providing 5% cash back until June 30 on restaurants (and wholesale clubs, but I'm not near any except Costco and they won't honor Discover), but I have not been dining out at all. I will tomorrow but I don't know who's paying.
It's the best reward! 4% up to $7000!
The 4% is for standard membership, if you have their credit card. You don't need executive to get it.
I guess you're right - my memory was that the Chase Freedom card usually had a quarterly cash back for restaurants or travel, but looking at 2022 and 2021 they didn't (only grocery stores).
I think you're misunderstanding- you get two separate rewards with the credit card- a 4% and a 2%. You get two checks each year- one from Costco and one from Citi. It's a total of 6% back.
Well, Citi Costco Visa does 3% on travel and restaurants and the limit is way above my usage ATM. Discover at 5% restaurants (I'd forgotten that) is in my "wallet." I have a nice wallet but lately I just keep all my CC's (that I see fit to carry and similar) in a binder clip, since I rarely carry cash.
I don't think I'm misunderstanding. My point was that you get 4% back on gas purchases with the standard Gold membership, nothing on gas by virtue of the Executive membership. Yes, two separate cash backs, although it would not seem to matter how they do it. Costco does not send you a check, they send you a certificate you need to bring to one of their warehouses for redemption by the end of the year or you forfeit the reward.
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