u/notthegoatseguy

Her name is Lucy. I lost my dog 7 years ago and she's the only dog of that era still around. She's mostly blind and a bit hard of hearing but she still wags her tail and can handle stairs.

As I'm working on an BCE->BCP upgrade offer, I was going to initially try out a Neighborhood Market in my area both with the physical card and via Walmart Pay....but Walmart Pay just decided to do the whole thing.

Info:

• This is a Neighborhood Market, Walmart's grocery concept, but over the past year or two most in my local area have gotten a remodel. Instead of a green exterior above the entryway identifying, it as a "Neighborhood Market", the exterior has changed to the standard blue Walmart uses, and identifies it as a "[city name] Market". So besides the size difference between this and the Supercenter, it can be hard to distinguish them if you don't know what you're looking for.
• With Walmart Pay, this codes as "Merchandise & Supplies - Groceries". Proof
  • I was concerned this might code as "Online Purchase" like it does at Supercenters. But it seems to handle these a bit differently for the Neighborhood Markets.
• Chip inserted 6% seems to be pretty well established that it'll get 6%, so I didn't personally test that.
• This was done at self-checkout, only purchasing food items.
• I imagine you can stock up on gift cards at Walmart Neighborhood Market and then use that at your regular Walmarts/Supercenters.

Seeing some of the discourse and criticism of the stadiums and host cities chosen for FIFA, some notable ones, particularly SF, LA, and NYC being in further out suburbs rather than the main city.

So I'm starting to wonder why wasn't Indianapolis part of the 2018 bid?

We have a downtown football stadium. While the hotel selection right by the stadium isn't great, there's some there and there's tons of hotels within the Mile Square and surrounding areas. Our football stadium is connected with an underground tunnel and many hotels are connected via skywalks. Cultural Trail connection has really made South Street about as good as can be hoped for. While some beautification of the Greyhound terminal would be great, it is right there for the FIFA fans traveling from elsewhere in the country on a budget.

Critics would note that FIFA does require cities to finance a lot of activities, such as stadium modifications, transit connections and so on. Rahm Emanuel, who was Chicago's mayor at the time of the bid, said FIFA wanted to have an option to put a dome over Soldier Field at the cost of 50-100 million, among other sticking points.

So what are your thoughts? Should we have been part of this bid, or do you feel like we dodged a bullet?

Proof

TLDR: It codes as grocery, but exclusion language applies, so no bonus points

The CFU grocery/gas bonus for those who signed up last summer may be coming to a close soon for some of you, and you may be trying to squeeze a bit out of these UR.

Like most grocery categories, this promo does have exclusion language for Walmart and Target. But sometimes Walmart Neighborhood Markets, Walmart's grocery concept, will still count despite that language.

So running errands this weekend I decided to do a $1 test purchase as a partial payment to see what would happen.

This was an in-person transaction at a self-checkout terminal with the physical chip card inserted into the reader. And per my statement, even though merchant reads as "groceries", it does not award grocery bonus

Oh well, I still got a month and change to use this bonus before switching over to something else.