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HyVee fuel saver card

cyinne

cyinne

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Sep 4, 2009
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Just want to know what is the cheapest someone here has paid for gas using the fuel saver card. Saturday I filled up- gas price was $3.39 and had $.75 on the card so I ended up paying $2.64/gal and saved about $10 total. I was pretty pumped..... Guess it's the little things in life for me anymore...
 
Ive gotten below 3 once which was nice. You have to do a lot of quick math to determine if its worth buying one of the fuel saver options though, sometimes its actually a good deal, other times its definitely not.

First example i think of, lately theyve been running 10 brats for 10 with a $.10 savings. Even if you use all 20 gallons with that .10, you save $2. But they were running 10 for 7 and 10 for 8 most of the summer, so youre not really getting much of a deal.
 
I figure 12-15 cents off the item per cent that it gives you on the Gas Card (with my car it's closer to 12 gallons when I need a fill-up and the van is about 15 gallons). Using that math to reduce the price of the item is how I decide if it's worth it or not.

For example if they have a loaf of bakery bread for $2.00 and it gives you 5 cents on the Fuel Saver, the actual cost to me of the bread is $1.25-1.40 after I take off the 12-15 cents x 5
 
I got a free 24 oz lime-a-rita and $2 off a 12 pack of Mountain Dew that was on sale for $4 for buying a 24 pack of bud light. I also got 3 free 8 oz red bulls because they rang up wrong. Great shopping experience.
 
NATEizKING said:
I got a free 24 oz lime-a-rita and $2 off a 12 pack of Mountain Dew that was on sale for $4 for buying a 24 pack of bud light. I also got 3 free 8 oz red bulls because they rang up wrong. Great shopping experience.
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Considering the other items, you'd have been better off buying the Mtn Dew straight up, then drinking your urine the rest of the evening.

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I only buy items that earn Fuel Saver if they are items that I normally purchase and only use the card to fill vehicles that will take 20 gallons. Biggest savings was $30 off
 
I wish all these stores did it how the grocery store back home in Ohio does it. It's called Giant Eagle. But anywho, for every $50 you spend, you get $0.10 off gas. No matter what you buy. Gift cards you get $0.20 and they have them for everything. Buying Best Buy gift cards before a large purchase was not uncommon. But also the flip side if it. For every 10 gallons of gas you buy, you get 1% off groceries.

It's an awesome program.
 
Right when they started it, one month they were promoting the heck out of it, like I think it was 10 cents just for using it one week, 20 the next, etc. up to 40 or 50, plus they had other good promotions. I had a trip to Minneapolis coming up, so I saved up my fuel saver discounts and paid less than $1/gallon on the way up. I think it was like 69 cents or something. I topped that sumbich up until I could see it just starting to come over the flapper at the filler neck. Ther other good thing...I asked if I could look it over before I signed up, so the checkout lady gave me the brochure with the card in it. Started using it, never gave them my e-mail or home addy, so no spamming!
 
If you're smart about it as a shopper it's a good program, but the trick is buying what you normally would, or what you know you'll consume without going overboard. It's the people that buy the item JUST because it's 2¢ savings on fuel saver that makes it a brilliant program for Hy-Vee. Some people are too stupid to notice that in the end they are paying more for a product the won't use, don't need or will go bad to save 20¢ at the pump.

I'm know the store manager here in Spamville and he says the program does great for his store. They post the statistics out front and people have saved $365,000 dollars (somewhere close to that) this year at the Hy-Vee Gas out front, but he says it's drawn in millions more in the store than the same period last year (before the program). If it's like that everywhere, which I'd be willing to bet it is more often than not, the Fuel Saver program must be going absolutely gangbusters for Hy-Vee. Brilliant marketing program for the company.

I normally get about 30¢ each month on the card, just by buying what I normally do. We maximize it each time we use the card by taking both cars to Hy-Vee Gas, fill one up, pull the next car in and keep pumping up to 20 gal.
 
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MNCYWX said:
If you're smart about it as a shopper it's a good program, but the trick is buying what you normally would, or what you know you'll consume without going overboard. It's the people that buy the item JUST because it's 2¢ savings on fuel saver that makes it a brilliant program for Hy-Vee. Some people are too stupid to notice that in the end they are paying more for a product the won't use, don't need or will go bad to save 20¢ at the pump.

I'm know the store manager here in Spamville and he says the program does great for his store. They post the statistics out front and people have saved $365,000 dollars this year at the Hy-Vee Gas out front, but he says it's drawn in millions more in the store than the same period last year (before the program). If it's like that everywhere, which I'd be willing to bet it is more often than not, the Fuel Saver program must be going absolutely gangbusters for Hy-Vee. Brilliant marketing program for the company.

I normally get about 30¢ each month on the card, just by buying what I normally do. We maximize it each time we use the card by taking both cars to Hy-Vee Gas, fill one up, pull the next car in and keep pumping up to 20 gal.
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I'm in the exact same boat. We use the program but i don't really change buying habits over it too much. We usually shop a few times a week as we mainly eat fresh fruit/veggies and meat, so I may take something at the meat counter that has a fuel saver attached if i didn't have a preference of what we wanted. They used to do mega meat Monday here for months on end where every Monday you got 20 cents off for spending $20 or more on meat and cheese. We used to do that a lot.

I'd say we save around 50-60 cents each time we fill up (every 3 weeks maybe), and we also bring both cars in at the same time and fuel them both up to maximize getting 20 gallons out of it.
 
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