Lowes Foods: Heads up...changes with Greenpoints *Confirmed*

[sarabean]

I just got back from Lowes. Assist mgr was telling me that 10/6/09 will be the last day to use greenpoints in the store. LF is changing the rewards policy. Instead of giving you GP, they are going to give you a $5 coupon for every $300 that you spend in store. (each visit's total wil go towards the $300)

GPs will still be good online for 2 years.

I asked about the bonus points for reusable bags and she said that those would be worth 5 cents. (I am assuming 5 cents towards your $300 total).

I looked on the Lowesfood.com site and I can find NO reference at all to the greenpoints program other than donating GPs to charity.

[uummm]

Well I guess I might go ahead and try and spend my Green points...good to know..Not like I shop there much anyway-not sure how I got the points I got-other than those shopping bags.

[oscamaya]

Lowes Foods is getting lamer every day. Not that I used greenpoints that often, but it was nice to be able to use them to get $5 off my total order every few months.

[loveitmom]

Thanks for the info! I suppose I will be spending points too!

[PHmom]

Didn't this rumor go around a few months ago too?

I am going by Lowe's this afternoon so I am going to see what I can find out.

[katncaed]

Yeah, this is the third time this rumor has surfaced this year.

But truthfully, I could care less. We had to get a new LF card back in early May. We haven't used any Green Points from the new card and we've only accumulated 786. I guess that mean we've only spent about $80 in LF since May.

However, we have saved almost $800.00 since May.

[oscamaya]

Yeah, this is the third time this rumor has surfaced this year.

But truthfully, I could care less. We had to get a new LF card back in early May. We haven't used any Green Points from the new card and we've only accumulated 786. I guess that mean we've only spent about $80 in LF since May.

However, we have saved almost $800.00 since May.

You need to start re-using Lowes bags or bring in cloth shopping bags. Each bag gets 50 points a pop. That is how I accumulate all mine. I forgot my bags the other day and when I looked at my receipt I had only earned 7 greenpoints for the entire transaction. I was king of bummed. Usually I get about 200-250 per transaction.

[AWise]

My LF head cashier did confirm the change. You can use GPs to get giftcards online(so she said) or spend them in the store for items (she said until October 1st for my store). Then it will go to spend $? get $?off.

[PHmom]

My friend in CS at my Lowe's said he hadn't heard anything about it but he did also admit that they often don't find out about things until the last minute so I'm going to keep checking with him.

[crazycat62]

I just got back from shopping at Lowe's tonight. I was told by the cashier and the CSM that the greenpoints are ending Wednesday,September 23 not Oct. 6th like I had just been told a few days ago at another Lowes store.