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Update: SimplyMiles now has a targeted offer for 1200 miles on a purchase of $50 or more. This will stack with the Citi merchant offer (but not the Amex Offer) for a total of 3400 miles, so long as you use the same Citi Mastercard to register for SimplyMiles. Note that, unlike the Amex Offer, neither the Citi Offer nor the SimplyMiles offer specify that the purchase can be made in more than one transaction. In the past, that seems to have been the case, but YMMV on this.
Blue Apron has an increased offer on the American Airlines Shopping Portal of 2200 AAdvantage Miles and Loyalty Points when signing-up for meal kit deliveries. There are also stackable AMEX/Citi offers that give $25 back on $50 in purchases. You’ll find a plethora of discounted plans that you can choose from on the portal. The cheapest plan that I got to load was 3 meals for 2 people for two weeks for ~$50 after discounts and including shipping. With the AMEX/Citi Offer, the total cost is ~$25.
The Deals
- Earn 2,200 American Airlines AAdvantage miles when ordering from Blue Apron after clicking through from the American Airlines shopping portal.
- Stack with targeted Amex/Citi offer for $25 off $50 spend (Amex Offer can be more than one transaction)
- If using a Mastercard, stack with targeted SimplyMiles promotion for an additional 1200 miles on $50 spend.
- Direct link to offer.
Key Terms (Amex Offer)
- Only eligible on first month of paid subscription.
- Subscription must be active for at least 45 days. Note that this does not say you can’t skip deliveries during the 45 day period.
- Eligible on one (1) subscription per loyalty account number.
- Not eligible on Wine club and Marketplace purchases.
- Blue Apron customer to customer referral subscriptions are ineligible (Blue Apron referral program).
- Not eligible on purchases made with coupon or discount codes that are not found on this site.
- Purchases made with a gift card may be ineligible.
Quick Thoughts
The AAdvantage shopping portal has been offering 1,000 bonus miles on Blue Apron orders, so this offer is a more than 50% increase, another worthwhile bonus for those of us playing the AA Loyalty Games. The AA portal has been a bit of a cluster, with some folks experiencing clawbacks and some having orders not post. Recently, after March 1, Loyalty Points seem to have been awarded for the majority of the deals that were clawed back (but no redeemable miles).
I still haven’t had anything get clawed back (yet), and have accumulated 40,000 LPs, but it’s worth paying attention AND trying not to cancel subscriptions until points/miles have posted.
This offer is stackable with either an Amex Offer or a Citi Offer for $25 off of up to $50 in Blue Apron purchases. Unlike the Amex Offer, the Citi Offer does not specify that the purchase can be made in more than one transaction. In the past, that has been the case, but there’s no gaurantee it will hold this time. For me, this makes the Amex Offer the better option if you have it, as you can spread the total $50 across multiple boxes.
Blue Apron has myriad discounts available to new sign-ups that provide somewhere between $110 and $160 off of the first four boxes.
I signed up with Blue Apron a few years ago and went back earlier this week to use the Amex Offer. When I reactivated using my old login, the “$110 off of first four boxes” disappeared from my orders, perhaps because I already had an account. I opened a chat with a CSR and said that my offer disappeared, planning to cancel it if I couldn’t get some sort of discount. She put me on hold for a minute, then came back and said she had added the offer and it would now show on my first four boxes. But the offer that she loaded was $170 off of the first four…$50 off the first shipment and $40 off of the next three.
The total cost with shipping was $13 for the first box and then $23 for the next three boxes for 3 meals for 2 people…a total of 24 meals for $82. I haven’t seen that $170 offer anywhere, but might be worth a chat to ask about it if you do sign-up and/or reactivate. You can easily skip as many deliveries as you’d like through the online portal, so I usually stay signed up but skip deliveries until the miles have posted and then cancel.
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Did anyones track yet? I did yesterday and don’t have anything in the Aa portal yet.
My visit tracked, but my first order doesn’t ship until next week, so I don’t think any order will track until then. Has your card been charged?
Mine isn’t shipping until next week too; no charge on the account. Hopefully it goes 😀
Did yours track when Blue Apron charged and shipped your first box?
it has not yet no
so do you have any pending points from blueapron yet?
Nothing yet. I’ve had a couple recent AA portal visits require a ticket to get the order tracked, I imagine this will be another one. The portal doesn’t allow you to request missing miles within 14 days of the visit, so I’ll be opening a ticket Tuesday.
thanks, same boat, keep us updated!
how did the ticket go?
They told me to try back after 45 days (since that’s the time listed in the terms)
aww crap i totally missed this in the terms about the 45 days.
i submitted a request anyway, do you have an order #? That’s what they are asking me for now 🙁
So, after 3+ months and several updates from the portal saying that I fulfilled the terms and that they were working to get credit, the miles finally appeared today.
lol! Appreciate the update. I’m still waiting on mine, but technically i canceled too soon so we will see
There has previously been $70 Swagbucks offer for subscribing. Unless you really need the AA points, I’d avoid this.
“This offer is stackable with either an Amex Offer or a Citi Offer for 25% off of up to $50 in Blue Apron purchases.”
$25 right?
Yep! Fixed.
Stack this with Simply Miles if you have a MasterCard to get an additional 1200 miles on a purchase of $50 or more! (Login at https://www.simplymiles.com/home, link your card, select the offer and then go to the AA Shopping portal to purchase.)
I am doing this, let’s hope for 3,200 miles.
It didn’t give me an option for 2 to get close to $50, but I end up doing 4 and after rebate about $31 out of pocket.
What meal plan setup do you have, I plan to use the amex offer of $25 off. I couldn’t get anything of a good price with the $100 box discount. If I get the $30 discount on the first box, it works out almost perfect for above the $50 a box.
Following
Choose any option listed on the portal for $110 or $120 and then mess around with the serving sizes and you should be able to get something to work. They all seem to allocate the credits differently across the first four boxes. In my case, I got one of the $110 discounts to work, then it went away when I finalized, the got the better deal via chat. All you need is to spend $50 total before 3/31, not in one transaction.
So if I get a box that is $30/week for example I would just skip after the 2nd week?
Yep, exactly.
Comes out to about 1.59 cpp but since I’m splitting with P2 … .66CPP! Plus, the cost of not buying groceries that the spreadhseet doesn’t factor in…
On the scoresheet, I use the “excess cost” to track this. So I take the amount that I would have been willing to pay for the deal with no miles, subtract that from the actual charge and the remainder is the “excess cost.” Ie, you spent $50 on one box but would have only done the deal for $10, so the excess cost in $40. Subtract the Amex Offer and the total comes down to $15 excess. (I also add in an additional 2.2% to compensate for the cashback I would have received the from the Nearside debit card.)