8 Meijer Perks Michigan Shoppers Over 60 Swear By

Think your mPerks account is only good for clipping a dime off canned soup?

It does far more.

Dig past those clipped coupons, and you’ll find money some shoppers never claim.

These are the Meijer perks Michiganders over 60 count on.

1. Half-Off Meat on the Flashfood App

Meijer runs a food-rescue app called Flashfood, and it started right in Metro Detroit before it spread across the country.

The app lists close-dated meat, produce, bakery, and deli items for as much as 50 percent off.

You buy in the app, then grab your haul from the Flashfood cooler near the front of the store.

A ribeye two days from its sell-by date tastes the same as a full-price cut.

You stock the freezer for half price.

You can pay with an EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) card too, and more than 500,000 Meijer shoppers already use it.

Since the two teamed up, Meijer shoppers have kept millions of pounds of food out of Michigan landfills.

Check it before every trip, since the best markdowns sell out by mid-morning.

2. Scan as You Shop, Skip the Line

Shop & Scan sits inside the Meijer app, and it turns your phone into a checkout.

You scan each barcode and bag your groceries as you move down the aisle.

A running total rises on the screen the whole way.

That total is the perk on a fixed income.

You see the number before you reach the register, so a full cart never surprises you.

When you’re done, one scan at the self-checkout settles the bill and your mPerks deals drop off automatically.

You never unload onto a conveyor belt.

Meijer rolled the tool out across its Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin stores, so most locations near you already run it.

On a January morning after a lake-effect dumping, walking straight out beats standing in a long line by the door.

3. Fuel Rewards Most Shoppers Forget to Claim

Every dollar you spend inside Meijer builds a fuel discount at the Meijer gas station out front.

Hit the spending thresholds and those cents-off-per-gallon rewards can stack toward a dollar a gallon at participating stations.

Here’s the part that trips people up: You have to tap “claim” on the reward in the app, then punch in your phone number at the pump before you fuel up.

Skip either half of that step, and the reward expires unused.

Once you claim a reward, you have just 45 days to use it before it lapses.

That’s the discount older shoppers miss more than any other.

Claim it first, pump second.

The reward builds from your regular grocery spending, not a special purchase, so most weeks you earn it without trying.

Fill up before a run up US-23 to see the kids, and you bring your grocery savings along for the drive.

4. Pharmacy Points That Cut the Grocery Bill

The Meijer pharmacy counter feeds the same mPerks account as the grocery aisles.

Every prescription you fill there earns points, and those points turn into dollars off your total at the register.

Those refills chip away at the grocery bill.

If you take a couple of maintenance medications, the points add up month after month.

Most shoppers keep their pharmacy visits and their grocery runs in separate mental boxes.

Meijer doesn’t.

Link both to the same phone number, and your points pile up in one place.

5. Money Back When the Price Drops

Meijer honors its own price adjustments, and few shoppers ever ask.

Buy a case of Faygo at full price, watch it go on sale a few days later, and you don't have to swallow the difference.

Bring your receipt to the service desk within about 10 days of your purchase, not the full return window, and Meijer refunds you the gap between what you paid and the new lower price.

Cash back, no argument.

It works on general merchandise and groceries, with a few exceptions like limited-supply items and special event pricing.

Keep an eye on the weekly ad after you shop, not only before.

6. Returns Without the Paper Receipt

Punch your mPerks phone number in at every Meijer checkout, and the store keeps a digital receipt for you.

Those receipts sit in your account for up to two years.

No shoebox required.

Lose the paper slip for a bag of Better Made chips you need to return, and the associate looks up the purchase and refunds the full price to your original payment.

With your mPerks number, Meijer can look up a purchase from the past two years.

A card or check lookup only reaches back about 90 days.

For anyone who's ever dug through a coat pocket in the parking lot, that's a small mercy.

7. The Card That Stacks at the Pump

Meijer issues its own credit card, and it does its best work at the gas station.

Pay with the card, and you save an extra 10 cents a gallon on top of the mPerks fuel reward you already claimed.

The discounts stack.

The Mastercard version earns points anywhere you use it, then hands back coupons worth 5 percent off groceries and 15 percent off general merchandise.

A pack of Koegel's and a fill-up on the same card can both come out ahead.

Pay the balance in full, though, or you'll owe more in interest than the reward ever saved.

8. Curbside With No Price Markup

Meijer pickup pulls your order together and loads it into your trunk, and the prices don't change online.

Some grocery apps mark up their online prices.

Meijer keeps them flat.

You get the same shelf price, the same weekly-ad deals, and your clipped mPerks coupons apply to the order just like a trip through the store.

You earn and redeem your mPerks rewards on a pickup order too, so the loyalty savings follow you to the curb.