Disappointment

Remember the great Publix gas card deals that we have seen a few times lately?  Well, I was excited that CVS was jumping on the free gas bandwagon. Free $10 gas card, great!  How to earn it, less than great.

Let's review: Publix deal was that if you spent $25, you could get $10 off of a $50 gas card.  Great!  Only downside was that you had to shell out $40 then and there for the gas card.  Which meant it was maybe more acurately 20% off of a $50 gas card than $10 of free gas.  Fine.

CVS deal is that if you spend $30 on select products you get a free $10 gas card.  I really like the full out freeness of the gas card, but the product requirements are too limiting.  At first, I though that this would build across weeks, like my green bag tag points, but it doesn't.  You have to spend $30 in one week to qualify.  And, those products have quantity limits.  Oh, and you can only get one gas card per week.

I will be keeping my eye on the product list each week - easy to do since they will all have this symbol - and will share with you as they are announced.  But, I'm not holding my breath for free gas on this one.  Sorry CVS, but you could do better.

Here is the list that you can buy from this week to qualify:

• Gatorade or Sobe 32 oz or 20 oz - BOGO (limit 8)
• Doritos or Tostitos - 2/$5 (limit 6)
• Coke 2 liters - $.99 (Limit 5)
• Lysol Disinfecting spray 19 oz or wipes 80 ct - $5 
• Jet Dry Rinse 8.45 oz, Gelpacs or powerball tabs 20 ct $2.99
• Hershey's, Reeses Singles - B2G1 Free (limit 9)
• Folger's Coffee 22.6-33.9 - $8.99
• Edy's Ice Cream 48 oz - BOGO $5.49 (limit 4)
• Twizzlers 11-32 oz - $2
• Swedish Fish, Sour Patch 16 oz, M&M's 9.9 - 15.4 oz - $2.50
• M&M Bags 19.2 oz - $4
• Palmolive 10 oz $.88