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Vons/Safeway VGC & AGC $15 Off Coupon, Chime Card Offers for SWA/VA/Uber/Lyft/HotelTonight/Airbnb & BankAmeriDeals

Good afternoon everyone.  If you can read and understand the title, you are an experienced travel hacker / MSer.  My friend Mike sent me a picture of a current promotion running at his local Von’s (Safeway) grocery store.  Purchase $150 or more in Visa or American Express Gift Cards and you will revive a coupon for $15 off your next $25 grocery purchase.  The promo is running from November 4 to 17 and the coupon must be redeemed within 7 days of your gift card purchase.  Assuming you buy gift cards on the last day of the promo (November 17), you have until November 24 (2 days before Thanksgiving) to redeem the coupon.  This coupon could be great if you have lots of Thanksgiving grocery store purchases to make.  I don’t know if you can redeem more than 1 coupon per transaction, but get creative.

Vons Gift Card Promo 11-7-17-2015

Here are the full terms of the promo:

Vons Gift Card Promo Terms Conditions 11-7-17-2015

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Random News: Amazon Winners, Discover It 2Q, SF UberPool, Barclays Aviator, and Hyatt Regency Dubai

Good morning everyone, thank you to everyone who entered my giveaway and shared what you were most looking forward to in March.  The winners are…

  • Chantal – have a great time taking your engagement photos!  (My cousin and her fiance recently took their engagement photos in Santa Cruz and it looked really fun!)
  • Seth – it is awesome that you were able to help your friends and family members travel, sharing is caring.
  • Luke – have a great road trip from Phoenix to Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon.  I recently did a similar trip and shared my experience here.
  • Spencer – I’ve booked a few trips from the West Coast to Hawaii using Avios.  Probably one of the best travel deals available.  Learn more about Avios to Hawaii here.

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New Cross-Promotion: Earn SPG Points on every Uber Ride

Good evening everyone, I was about to go to bed when I saw this awesome new cross-promotion from Uber and SPG on Twitter.  Uber and SPG have teamed up to offer 1 SPG Point for every dollar you spend with Uber (details).  Free SPG points are free SPG Points.  To get started, go to the registration page here and sign into your SPG account.

SPG Uber Home Page

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Guest Post: How to Make the Most of a Weekend Trip

The other day, I was tweeting with my friend Josh @ FrugalHack.me and I asked him if he wanted to write a guest post for me.  I have been following Josh’s blog for a few months and I like his writing style and topics (he covers MS strategies and cash back deals).  If you like reading Travel with Grant, you will probably like reading FrugalHack.me as well.  With that said, take it away Josh…

There’s no doubt that my wife and I love weekend trips.  Truthfully, we’d like them to be longer, but we just don’t have the vacation time to use.  So, we just make do with what we have and it works, quite well actually.

These trips aren’t long, hence the “weekend” part, so there really needs to be a game plan in place to make sure the time off is well used.  I don’t want to brag, but now that we’ve taken quite a few of these weekend trips, we’re kind of experts at making the most of them.

Want to learn how to do it?  Of course you do! :)

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Recent Tech Funding: Uber $1.6B, Raise Gift Cards $56M, Shazam $30M, Chime $8M, and RadPad $2M

After moving to the Bay Area, home of the tech startup, I learned about a website called Crunch Base, which is a big database full of information regarding some of the my favorite companies.  You can find information about pretty much any tech company, big or small, new or old, all in one place.  I received an email from them this morning about some recent funding (debt financing, venture funding, etc.) and thought it would be fun to share.

If you want to learn more about the following companies, check out their Crunch Base pages:

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