HyVee ~ Question: Hy-Vee Gas Station

[Little Birdie]

Does your Hy-Vee have a gas station?

Mine has had one for awhile. There is always a sign when I walk into Hy-Vee that says to take your Hy-Vee receipt over there and use it to get a such-and-such discount. It's always changing.

I've never done it. I have a Mastercard that I earn 3% on when I use it at certain (not Hy-Vee) gas stations. With gas at about $4, that's a 12 cent a gallon discount. Hy-Vee's discount is usually like 6 cents.

For those of you who have done it, I guess you have to be careful there was nothing on that receipt you needed for a rebate or to submit to your flex plan, hunh?

[marenian]

They don't take your receipt, they mark it with a highlighter or pen...at least that's what they do at mine. I only use it if I happen to have gotten groceries on the day that I realize I need gas and also if I don't have the kids with me as you have to go inside to pay to get the discount.

Sometimes they will have unadvertised "gas buster" specials in the store where if you buy a certain item you will get an extra x cents off as well as that day's discount. Some of these can add up but the items are usually pretty strange or large quantity. Look for a sign posted on the front doors as to these specials.

They used to have something where if you spent $50/$100/$150 you got an extra discount as well but I don't think they do that anymore....or maybe I just don't spend that much anymore to find out

[maeby]

On our receipts it always says 3c off gas discount.

But then there's been a few Friday's (mind you, it was during times when gas was around $3.89-$3.99 here) that they've made it 10c off gas discount (but like the PP said, it was marked with a highlighter).

[Little Birdie]

Oh, I'm glad to hear they don't take it!

I still get a better discount elsewhere.

This could be good for some folks, though.

[seoulmom]

My local HyVee had a "gas buster" last week -- Spend $15 in the store and save $.15 per gallon. Both the store and gas station were PACKED!

To get the discount, you have to pay inside the gas station and show your receipt to the cashier.

I hope they do this more often!

[nmcg22]

Little Birdie, you can still get both discounts. Show them your receipt and they will reduce the cost of the gas, and then use your credit card to get that percentage off as well...

[Little Birdie]

That would be great, nmcg22, but the credit card only gives me the 3% gas rebate at 66, 76, and Conoco stores. I get 1% on regular purchases at say Target, Hy-Vee, or day care. I think I get 0% at competing gas stations, but it may be the 1%. Hmmm, I may have to double check... If it is the 1%, and the receipt deal of the day is good enough to make up for the loss of the 2%... but the 1% would be off the price after the receipt discount... I could set up a spreadsheet to tell me where the tipping point is...

I'll let you know!

[Scarlett]

Our gas discount depends on the amount you spend at Hy-Vee. Less than $50 is $.03/gallon, $50-100 is $.06/gallon, and $100+ is $.10/gallon. I don't get any other discount on gas from anything else, so I usually just put gas in on Sunday when I buy groceries. My tank is never full, never empty. Every sunday I put in about $30 of gas. I WAH, and drive very little, so this works for me.

Before I started being more grocery savvy and stockpiling, I would regularly spend over $100, and so I would also often give the receipt to my DH as he goes through exponentially more gas than I do, but now with rarely spending even $50, I just use it myself. If he wants the discount he just buys a soda and then uses the coupon to buy gas... it IS $.01-$49.99 that you get the $.03 discount. haha!

At our HV gas they used to put their intials on the receipt, but they haven't done that in ages, so if I DO happen to spend more, like this weekend, then I get my gas and give the receipt to DH to get his own gas at a discount. If they took the receipt then I wouldn't be able to use it since I have to keep all grocery receipts since I run a home daycare.

[Zulaya]

At ours for August, if you spend $150 or more you get $.15 off. Only problem is, I can't get up to $150 usually without spending WAY more than I would at, say Wally World. I'm pretty sure they count the amount after coupons, too, so 20 free Purina cat food coupons would count as whatever tax on them would be, not $40.

--Sara