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Andy Meek
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- While most of the US is under a quarantine or stay-at-home order of some kind right now as a result of the continued spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, essential businesses like grocery stores are one of the few remaining places left that people are allowed to go to outside their home.
- Below, we present several credit card offers for what we think are the best options specifically for grocery spending.
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Thanks to the coronavirus outbreak, it’s a pretty good bet that most people’s food-related spending has drastically changed in recent weeks. You might be ordering takeout and meal delivery even more than you were in the days before the virus-related shutdowns and quarantines, or you might have gone to the opposite extreme and are now spending heavily on on groceries to keep yourself stocked up for an extended period. Suffice it to say, most of us are probably spending well above what folks used to spend on food and groceries during a normal month, which amounted to about 10% of disposable income, according to the USDA.
In these strange times, it might be worth re-evaluating your personal credit card situation and making sure you have a rewards credit card in your wallet that maximizes one of the biggest line items of your personal budget, whether you head to the store to shop the aisles or press a few buttons online and have the groceries brought to your doorstep. Unlike travel credit cards, where the choices are wide and plentiful, there are only a handful of points-earning and cash-back cards that offer groceries as a solid bonus category, and many of the top choices come from one issuer -- American Express. In this post, we’ll present some recommendations of the top credit cards that can earn rewards worth hundreds of dollars or more annually for the typical household. The larger your grocery budget, the more you stand to benefit from a rewards credit card tailored perfectly for grocery spending, whether you do that online or you happen to be one of those hardy souls venturing into physical stores right now.
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