April 17-23: 25% back in Staples Rewards

If you are a Staples Rewards member, you may want to hold off on your supplies purchases until next week. According to their weekly ad (sneak-peaked on their website every Thursday) for April 17-23 in 2016, the 25% back in Staples Rewards promotion is back!

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You need to be a rewards member and show the coupon to the cashier or mention the coupon code (highlighted in blue above). This scans as a coupon in their system but doesn’t count as an actual coupon. It’s just how their register works.

As usual, there are exclusions. These promotions are meant for office supplies and such. You won’t get rewards on gift cards, or technology or other low margin items or items prohibited by law.

Another thing to note is that the Staples Rewards program is not as good as it used to be. You no longer get a flat 5% of your rewards because they only pay out rewards in multiples of $5, and while the remainders rollover within a quarter, they eventually get zeroed out. In other words, your reward is a maximum of 5%. It could be as low as 0%. And this is for the 5% Black Label tier. It’s even worse for the lower tiers. One of the side-effects of the three major office supply chains consolidating into one.