This week, I only paid $1.40 per gallon when I filled up my car. I was pretty excited to save $2.00/gallon. The last time I paid that little for gas was during the Clinton Administration. How did I gas up my car so cheaply? I took advantage of
Stop and Shop's Gas Rewards program. The way it works is that you earn 1 point for every dollar that you spend at Stop & Shop when you use your Stop & Shop card. You save $0.10 per gallon for every 100 points that you earn. You can earn up to $2.20 per gallon. You have to use your points within 30 days of earning them.
I was always skeptical of taking advantage of the Gas Rewards. I don't usually spend enough at Stop & Shop to earn enough points to make it worth my while. Occasionally, Stop & Shop has a sale that allows you to earn more points. Recently, they had a sale where buying 6 of certain items earned you 400 points or $0.40/gallon. Part of this sale was yogurt that I knew we would eat. Plus I had a coupon. Then the following week, Cheerios was part of a similar sale. Before I knew it, I had accumulated over 2000 points.
In the future, I probably won't shop at Stop & Shop just to earn gas points. However, if there's a good sale that racks up gas points that I can combine with coupons, I might as well save some gas money.
