BJ's Rewards Membership?

[Disneefun]

I originally posted this on the budget board, but didn't get too much response, so I thought some of you might have input....


Does anyone here have the BJ's rewards membership? Not talking about their rewards credit card, but the upgraded membership ($75/year) that allows you to earn reward points. I'm up for renewal and I figured that just taking into account the reward $$$ I would probably accrue, I would just come out a little bit ahead over the cost of the upgraded membership. But in the literature, BJ's says rewards members get special offers and coupons throughout the year. I'm wondering if the offers are good enough to increase the value of the upgraded membership or if they're nothing special. Hope this makes sense. Anyone have any input. TIA!

 

[bcorso]

We have it, we just renewed from last year. Hope the following helps you decide:

We own a restaurant. We spend about $15- $30/week at BJ's, more or less. Last year our refund check was for $68.18 so it was worth it for us since we only paid about $7.00 for our yearly membership.
If I had more time to shop there, we would have gotten a much larger rebate (We used to spend $400+ a month there before we owned the shop, but who's got time to shop anymore???
Now with Jordan on the way, we'll be buying diapers there so I will be shopping more for both the house and shop so I'm expecting a larger rebate next year. Also, you get two rewards cards, we use one for our family and gave the other reward card (gold card) to hubby's dad so whatever he buys, we will get the rebate for.

They don't send your rebate until you renew your membership.

HTH
Bonnie