06.03.24 Managing Travel Rewards / Smart Shopping Carts - A Review

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Using reward points for summer airfare and hotels has been a great way to save over the years, but operators have long been devaluing these programs, and are limiting how you can earn those points. Know how to better manage the moving targets that are today’s variable travel rewards. Also, a special guest: Our man Anthony visited Manhattan’s Fairway Market, and reports on the latest version of cashier-less tech - the automated shopping cart. Travel Loyalty Points: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 Smart Shopping Carts: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: American Airlines No Longer Awards Miles On Most Third Party Bookings - View from the Wing NYTimes.com: To Protect Your Miles, Be Careful How You Book Find Best Flight Deals With Free American Express Tool Point.me Why Our Travel Expert Thinks This New Tool Is a “Game Changer” How To Open a Roth IRA How To Freeze and Unfreeze Your Credit With Experian, Equifax and TransUnion 10 Ways To Save Money on Car Insurance [NY Post] Future of shopping: Instacart debuts AI-driven 'smart carts' to NYC retailers No more 'just walk out' at Amazon grocery stores. The new bet is smart shopping carts Amazon’s cashier-less technology was to revolutionize grocery shopping. It’s been a flop Amazon Ditches "Just Walk Out" Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores Thank you for listening today, Clarkies! If you want to be part of our “Clarkie” segment, call 404-981-2071 to leave a comment or story. We may play it during a future episode! Clark.com resources Episode transcripts Community.Clark.com Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices: megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	Today we're kicking off our June editions of our car coward podcast by talking about travel.
0:57.0	Using points for summer airfare and hotels has been a great way for many of us to save over the years, but airlines, hotels,
1:07.2	they're limiting how you can use your points, they're devaluing them, like the
1:11.6	Delta Sky Miles program becoming the SkyPinnies program and later I'm so
1:17.9	excited about the new fairway market automated shopping carts that I talked about that one of our team
1:25.4	members who lives near one has tried it out we're gonna have Anthony on talking
1:30.6	about his experience with automated shopping carts.
1:35.0	Wait till you hear what they do.
1:37.0	So Airlines hotels are getting tougher and tougher with your points.
1:42.0	If you're a Bonvoy member, you know, Marriott, Weston, all the chains that
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