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How I Shop the Giant Gas Deals

This is definitely the week to check out the gas deals, which is why I’m taking the time to quickly share with you how I shop the giant gas deals. I realize that everyone thinks a little differently on how they do math, and there are many ways to figure out the deals and how they’ll work best for you, but I’ll be sharing what works for me. And I love it!

What are Giant Gas Deals?

In short, its a rewards program in which Giant offers you a discount on gas if you buy a certain number of products featured each week. It’s actually called Choice Rewards, not gas deals, because you can redeem your points for more than just gas. I call it gas deals, because it has always been a better value to redeem my rewards for gas.

For instance, in this example you can earn 500 choice reward points (equal to $.50 off per gallon of gas up to 25 gallons) for every 6 items you purchase that is shown in this box. Items must be purchased in a single transaction.

Here’s my quick and simple way to do the math. If I’m earning $.50 off per gallon of gas, I can multiply that by 25 gallons since that’s how much gas I will fill up with. (My calculations are only correct if you fill up 25 gallons—so be sure to take an empty gas tank or two if your tank is smaller than 25 gallons.)

$.50 per gallon x 25 gallons = $12.50 in gas credit

 

Therefore, if I buy 6 items I will get $12.50 of gas for FREE.

Or I tend to look at it the other way, I will be buying gas no matter what, so I count the $12.50 for gas and deduct the $12.50 from my bill for those 6 items. Which leads to another equation.

$12.50 discount off my bill / 6 items = $2.08 discount per item

 

I then go through the list of items, and deduct $2.08 from the price shown. Now I know how much it will cost me per item! Here’s what my paper usually looks like (excuse my scribbles, this is real life!).

You can see that some of the items this week I’ll be getting a discount MORE THAN the actual price I’ll pay for the item. That’s called a money-maker! You can increase the money-makers to be even more of a money-maker by finding coupons.

For instance, you can print a coupon for the Prego Pasta Sauce, Pace Salsa and Picante Salsa.

Let’s use the Prego for an example.

$1.99 Prego Sauce – $2.08 gas credit – $1/1 Prego Pasta Sauce Coupon = $-1.09 cost to me

That means $1.09 in my pocket! Now if I buy 6 of them, and find 6 coupons, I just made $6.54.

Even if you don’t have any coupons, you still just made $.54. And, you’ve either started a stock pile (which will save you at least $2 per jar or $12 total, that you would have paid to buy the sauce in the next few months for your meals), or you have some incredibly inexpensive donations for places that need them!

All said and done, this week I paid more than I ever have at the grocery store, but I also earned more gas credit than I ever have. I paid $120.62, but earned $92.50 in gas. Therefore I paid just $28.12 for a cart full of groceries that will last me quite a while!

If you really want to make things sound crazy, you could say that I just got $166.48 worth of groceries for $28.12!! 😉

I did a bunch of other deals that I had coupons for too, which is why you see some of the things you do in my cart—including the deodorant for my husband. That deal is worth checking out if you use those products—buy $15 worth of items and save $5 instantly. I always make it a point to check through the circular for quick savers!

Filed Under: Grocery Stores Tagged With: choice rewards, Giant, Giant Gas Deals

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  1. Sarah Smith says

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    I love Giant’s deals! I hadn’t actually figured out the math before, but it completely makes sense. I noticed you had the buy the name brand pasta and get the Giant brand free. Those are always worth getting if your family uses the items!

    I’ve also downloaded the Giant app on my phone. You can add digital coupons to your bonuscard directly and they are taken off at the register. I also discovered you can use a paper coupon on top of the digital one. For example: I had a 50 cents off a granola bar digital coupon. I also had a 50 cents off that same box of granola bars paper coupon (which Giant doubled to 1 dollar.) Therefore a box of granola bars that should have been 2 dollars on sale, cost me 50 cents. 🙂 It’s been fun trying to figure out how to stack the savings each week! Every few weeks they have an item on the digital coupons for free – a yogurt, coffee drink, candy bar. Who doesn’t love free stuff?

    • Kathy says

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      Thanks for sharing your tips Sarah!! I love to hear it. I actually have another post written up on those extra little things to find in the Giant circulars and sales like you mention — I was waiting to share it to see if people are interested. 😉

      Who doesn’t love free stuff, right?!!

  2. Darlene Roehm says

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    Also thru Thursday of this week at Giant, you can purchase a prepaid VISA card and receive 3x the value in points (ordinarily these gift cards do not generate any points.) Use you own cash back or points credit card to make this purchase. The maximum value you can purchase these cards for is $500.00. The process fee for each card is $5.95. If you buy one $500 VISA, you will get 1500 points worth $1.50/gallon—that times 25 gallons generates a value of $37.50. That #37.50 less the $5.95 process fee is a money maker of $31.55. Then use this card to pay for your other groceries (or anywhere VISA cards are accepted as payment—just like any credit card. You can check your purchases online (see back of the card.) The $5.95 process fee is the same whether you purchase a $20 prepaid card or a $500 prepaid card. The higher the value, the larger the money maker.

    • Kathy says

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      Thank you Darlene!!!!! I used to do this deal but haven’t done it in awhile. A great tip!!!

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