I don't like to let questions like that linger for long, so before taking off for Italy I swung by my local Walmart,
coded as a grocery store by Visa and MasterCard, and picked up an international plug adapter (I'm always leaving them in hotel room outlets), paying with my newest Freedom card.
Not exact matches
A few decades later other physicists figured out how to build such a device for use
as a powerful weapon or to read bar
codes at
grocery stores.
PLU
codes, also known
as produce
codes are unique, four or five digit numbers that
grocery stores use to control and manage their inventory of fruits, vegetables, and herbs.
When buying produce in the
grocery store, it might be helpful to know what those number
codes (known
as a PLU
codes or price lookup numbers) on the stickers really mean.
Purchases made at merchants classified by Visa's «Merchant Category
Code» (MCC)
as: (i) «service stations» (MCC 5541) or «automated fuel dispensers» (MCC5542) are «Gas Purchases»; (ii) «
grocery stores» (MCC 5411) are «Grocery Purchases»; and (iii) «drug stores & pharmacies» (MCC 5912) are «Drug Store Purchases» («Eligible MCCs&r
grocery stores» (MCC 5411) are «
Grocery Purchases»; and (iii) «drug stores & pharmacies» (MCC 5912) are «Drug Store Purchases» («Eligible MCCs&r
Grocery Purchases»; and (iii) «drug
stores & pharmacies» (MCC 5912) are «Drug
Store Purchases» («Eligible MCCs»).
I expected to get a reading
as fast
as a checker at the
grocery store can scan a bar
code.
Merchant category
codes are four - digit numbers denoting a business type, such
as a gas station or
grocery store.
The reason some purchases at cafes and restaurants inside department
stores and
grocery stores might not qualify is because those locations are often
coded as department and
grocery stores, not
as separate restaurants.
While there are some scattered reports of success having convenience
store purchases
coded as gas stations or
grocery stores on American Express cards that bonus those categories, I am simply too skeptical to be able to make that recommendation to my readers.
Some will show up
as grocery stores while others will be
coded as discount
stores.
Merchants qualifying for the accelerated earn rate: The accelerated earn rate applies to purchases made at American Express merchants in the Gas,
Grocery, Dining and Entertainment categories, classified in the American Express network
as: Gas Service Stations (with or without Ancillary Services and with Merchant
Code: 5541) and Automated Fuel Dispensers (Merchant
Code: 5542);
Grocery Stores and Supermarkets (Merchant
Code: 5411); Eating Places and Restaurants (Merchant
Code: 5812); Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) including Bars, Taverns, Nightclubs, Cocktail Lounges, and Discotheques (Merchant
Code: 5813); Fast Food Restaurants (Merchant
Code: 5814); Entertainment including Motion Picture Theaters (Merchant
Code: 7832), Theatrical Producers (except Motion Pictures) and Ticket Agencies (Merchant
Code: 7922), Bands, Orchestras and Miscellaneous Entertainers - Not Elsewhere Classified (Merchant
Code: 7929).
5 % cash rewards (1 % base plus 4 % bonus) are earned for every $ 1 spent in net purchases (purchases minus returns / credits) during the first 6 months, from the date the credit card account is opened, at retailers whose merchant
code for Visa is classified
as grocery stores, drugstores, and gas stations.
Grocery Store Purchases are purchases made at merchants classified by Mastercard's «Merchant Category Code» as «grocery stores and supermarkets» (MCC
Grocery Store Purchases are purchases made at merchants classified by Mastercard's «Merchant Category
Code»
as «
grocery stores and supermarkets» (MCC
grocery stores and supermarkets» (MCC 5411).
3 % cash rewards (1 % base plus 2 % bonus) are earned for every $ 1 spent in net purchases (purchases minus returns / credits) during the first 6 months, from the date the credit card account is opened, at retailers whose merchant
code for Visa is classified
as grocery stores, drugstores and gas.
Cuevas documents community protests in a cartography of resistance while also creating mini-sabotages — altering
grocery store bar
codes and manufacturing student identity cards —
as part of her non-profit Mejor Vida Corp / Better Life Corporation.