strange discounts

I signed up for Upside, because I wanted to get a 30 cent/gal gas discount blah blah blah here in PA.

But it also had restaurant and supermarket discounts of 5% and 6%, plus another $10 bonus.

The thing is usually these apps offer discounts on merchants who are hurting. Coincidentally, our favorite restaurant (it's like an episode of Cheers where the GM greets us and talks to us like they did in the 80's) is one that has a 5% discount, and there is a grocery store too that does 6%.

Simply collect the above rebates and once over $10, redeem to checking account.

Throughout all of the above, for some really unknown reason, there is also a 5% Groupon credit on my CC statement, and I have no idea why. It happened 3X at the above restaurant.

I mean to get ~ $3 discount, twice, on a $50 restaurant bill why not, but it's strange to get a discount and have no idea why.

There's another restaurant that's another one of our faves, where the payment device they have has an app called Toast. By linking my email. that too awards $5 for every $100 spent. These strange discounts add up over time. Again, why not save $3, or $5, if there's not really anything that needs to be done to get them.

One time such a discount popped up when I checked in on Yelp, and they gave me a hard time about it. I said if you don't want to accept it no biggie and never went back. I opted not to slam them on Yelp, let someone else do it lol