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If you like to eat lunch or dinner at Starbucks, and you are participating in their rewards program, and you received an email to join this promotion, you can get 100 Bonus Stars if you buy products from three specific product categories between August 22-28 in 2017. You must first join the offer (aka challenge).
You must needs buy one item from each category:
If you are a member of the Starbucks Rewards program, a new “After 2PM” (local time) Dash promotion is back. As before, check your emails or the app to make sure you are invited to participate. You must first manually activate the offer (easier than it sounds, just press the “Join the Dash” button).
After you do that, if you make 4 or 6 purchases after 2pm local time, between August 15-21 in 2017, you will earn either 50 or 100 points. The offer does not restart, so if you make more than 6 purchases, you won’t earn additional bonus points. You’ll still earn the usual rewards on the purchase amount.
I don’t know if every Starbucks Rewards member get the same “Double Stars Day” or they get spread around throughout the month. Check your emails to be sure! Wednesday August 9 is 2017 is, for at least some, Starbucks Rewards members, another double stars day. That means almost everything you guy (gift cards and reloads are NOT eligible; and a few other minor exceptions) get you twice as many points, which means you get a reward by spending half as usual.
Assuming you redeem a reward for an $8 item (eg the new chicken salad platter thing), that means one point is worth around 13 cents during Double Star Days. So this is a good opportunity to restock on coffee beans, tea bags, buy any new cups and mugs you need, K-Cups, etc.
If you are participating in the Starbucks Reawrds program, there is a new promotion running that you have to first manually activate and it is by email invitation, so YMMV if you are offered it. If you purchase two protein boxes between August 8-14 in 2017, you will earn 50 Bonus stars in addition to the regular stars.
With the two new salad trays arriving at Starbucks at $7.50 and $8, the value of each Rewards Point has increased, assuming you are planning to redeem your rewards towards them. So assuming you keep getting the $8 salad tray, one Rewards Point is worth 6.4 cents!
If you are a member of the recently launched Peets Rewards program which incidentally gives you one FREE DRINK after you make your first purchase as a Peetniks rewards participant, they have a new promotion running until the close of business on 8/13/17.
You earn double points on purchases over $10 or more (before taxes and other fees). Meaning the product prices must be $10+, not the product price plus sales tax plus CRV or whatever other taxes may exist in your area 🙂
Typically, every purchase earns 1 point. Fifteen points become a free drink. With this promotion, you earn 2 points per $10+ purchase, so you can get your free drink twice as fast. Strategically, if you have multiple big purchases (eg more than one bag of coffee beans), split them between multiple visits 🙂
You can find this offer in the email account associated with your Peets rewards, or you can find it in the Peets app’s Inbox, or your smartphone notifcations (if enabled). Screenshots of these right below:
The calendar is collaborating for this promotion. For the first week of August 2017 (1-7), they are bringing back the “After 2pm” Dash offer. As usual, you must first activate the offer for your account by clicking on the link in the email or the app. Once activated, you will earn 50 bonus stars if you make four separate purchases, OR 100 bonus stars if you make six or more separate purchases.
As before, the offer is stackable with any other promotions they may be running over there. And given how the two reward tiers are set up, once you get to four, you double the bonus stars by buying an extra two items.
Items paid with Rewards (as far as I can tell) do not count rewards-wise.
If you want to reach the Starbucks GOLD Rewards Level (that’s the best level with the most rewards), then you have a shortcut! Until the close of business on 7/31/17, if you make a purchase (any purchase) using their app or a registered gift card, you will be upgraded to the GOLD level. The offer is good for GREEN tier rewards members, and for brand new members as well!
PS: the page does not say whether existing GOLD members will get an additional year added to their membership, so assume it won’t.
Discounts and coupons are rare at Apple, so this may be a great promotion if you are planning online Apple purchases and you are participating in the Plenti rewards program! There is a new offer available there, which you must manually activate in your Plenti account first, that gets you 8X points on purchases made at the Apple online store. That’s 8% of your purchase! That’s pretty, pretty, pretty good!
Once activate in your account, the offer ends on 08/10/2017 8:59pm MST. Detailed terms and conditions are available over there.
A weekend trip at Starbucks? With free AC and free refills as a rewards member? If you check all of the above, check your emails or the Starbucks app for a new promotion that requires opt-in (pressing the “Join the Dash” email button). If you are eligible for this, you will earn bonus stars if you visit after 2pm local time during the weekend of July 28-30 in 2017. That’s Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Three separate transactions get you 25 bonus stars, but if you make five or more separate transactions, you’ll get 75 bonus stars! So if you get to three, it makes sense to make the jump to five! If nothing else, buy small things like the chocolate straw cookie thing, or the string cheese, which are under $1 each 🙂
If you are participating in the Luckys Rewards program, check your email or their website/app. There is a new promotion running until 8/1/17 that gets you 200 Rewards points if you purchase one of their microwavable meals in a bag that go for $7 each. They have multiple options, including a veggie option. This is limit one bonus per customer during this promotional period.
You must first manually activate the offer before you earn the bonus. Per the promotion, the bag is BPA-Free. Here’s a screenshot of the relevant parts of the promotional offer:
In addition to the various other bonus stars promotions running, Starbucks has also launched their July 2017 Double Stars day. Per the email I received, it says it will be Wednesday July 26 (2017). I don’t know if every rewards member gets exactly the same day, or if they spread them out throughout the week or month. Regardless, check your email or the Starbucks app to verify that it is so for your account.
The Double Stars promotion do not require opt-in. They apply automatically as long as your account is eligible for them. With the two new $8-ish salad bowls/platters, the value of a Reward Star has increased, assuming you’ll redeem your free rewards on the new expensive $8 salad bowl.
As usual, Double Stars days are great for making your coffee beans, and coffee cups and tea bags, and other purchases that have a shelf life. You obviously can’t pre-buy hot coffee to drink for the rest of the way, but you can buy beans or K-cups to drink for the next few weeks 🙂
If you are participating in the Walgreens “Balance Rewards” program, a chance is coming! Starting August 25 in 2017, your rewards will be expiring after 12 months. This is on a rolling basis depending on when you earned the rewards. This will make it harder to bank reward points so you can redeem them for the bigger and better prizes. This also means that if you don’t pay attention, you will likely lose most of your points.
A little known fact is that you can redeem as little as 1000 points, which may sound like a lot but it’s actually just $1. Walgreens is one of only a few companies that do the sneaky thing of equating 10 points to a penny, making it look like you have a LOT of rewards, when you don’t actually. Most other companies these days are honest enough to do 1 point = 1 penny, which makes it easier for the consumer.
The summer is heating up and so are the various bonus rewards offers from Starbucks. In the latest offer, sent by email, and needing to be manually activated before earning a bonus, you get 100 Bonus Stars (that’s 80% towards a full reward) when you purchase one each from the following three product categories:
If you are not sure how the qualify the sandwiches, check the menu in their app or the big printed menu in their stores! The offer runs July 25-31. You only earn one 100 bonus during this promotional period, it does not roll and repeat.
It didn’t take long! As I mentioned earlier, Peets has now widely launched their Peetnick Rewards program, with a GooglePLAY app too, not just the initial soft launch that was iOS-only.
To encourage people downloading the app, they are offering a free drink when you install it for the first time. Here’s how to get your free drink:
Starbucks wants, once again, to encourage customers to visit more often in the afternoon, so if you are participating in their Rewards program, check your emails or the app for an offer to manually join a new “After 2pm DASH” promotion. You earn bonus stars depending on how many purchases you make after 2pm local time between July 18-24 in 2017.
You must first click the “JOIN” button in the email or touch the appropriate thing in their app (if the offer is offered through it ~ I haven’t checked). Just like previous times this had been offered, you earn the most bang for your buck at the 6+ visits tier, so if you are at the 4 visit tier, make sure you make a couple more purchases to essentially double your bonus!
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