Shop Your Way Mastercard to be Discontinued
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The quirky and beloved Shop Your Way Mastercard, originally launched as a partnership between Citi and Sears, is going away.
Starting Nov. 3, 2025, the card will be rebranded, and existing holders will automatically be moved to the Citi ThankYou Mastercard. With the new card, cardholders can earn Citi ThankYou Points — which can be redeemed for travel through the issuer or for cash back, gift cards, purchases with eligible merchants, among other options — across common spending categories like gas, restaurants, groceries, department stores and drugstores. The card also comes with additional benefits like special access to tickets and exclusive experiences through Citi's entertainment program.
Plus, a new version of the Shop Your Way Mastercard — called the Shop Your Way 5321 Visa Credit Card — will be available for applications in mid-November 2025, though it will have a new issuer and different reward categories. To get the new card, you'll have to apply for it directly, regardless of whether you had the previous version.
The original Shop Your Way Mastercard has long been a unique and popular retail credit card thanks to its lucrative and recurring limited-time spending bonuses, which often offer existing customers upwards of 15% cash back, making them potentially worth hundreds of dollars, depending on the promotion. One-time welcome bonuses on credit cards are common, but they're typically for new cardholders only, and they're usually not recurring.
In addition to those valuable offers, the card also earns high ongoing rewards in common spending categories, though point values are low. It offers 5% back in points on gas station purchases and 3% back in points on eligible restaurant and grocery store purchases (up to the first $10,000 of combined spending in those categories per calendar year), and 1% after that. Plus, through the Shop Your Way shopping portal, cardholders can earn 2% back in points on eligible Shop Your Way merchant purchases and 1% back in points on other eligible purchases.
Participating Shop Your Way merchants include Sears, Kmart, Home Depot, Macy’s, Walmart and Walgreens, among thousands of other popular brands.
A bit of history
In 2017, Citi and Sears launched the Shop Your Way Mastercard. Although Sears filed for bankruptcy in October 2018, a limited number of Sears stores remained open, and the card continued accepting new applications.
There was also a separate Sears Mastercard, but it was converted to the Citi ThankYou® Mastercard® in April 2025. That new card earns Citi ThankYou points, which can be redeemed for travel through the issuer, or for cash back, gift cards, purchases with eligible merchants and more.
Information related to the Sears Mastercard, the Citi ThankYou® Mastercard® and the Shop Your Way Mastercard has been collected by NerdWallet and has not been reviewed or provided by the issuer of this card.
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