Schnucks Rewards Points Sales Tax Class Action Settlement

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Current Status

Claims are open. The deadline to submit a Claim Form is November 3, 2026 — online by 11:59 p.m. Central Time, or postmarked by that date if you mail a paper form. The same date is the deadline to exclude yourself or to object. The Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri has granted preliminary approval and authorized notice, and the final approval hearing is set for December 4, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Richard M. Stewart. The court has not yet decided whether to approve the settlement, no payments have been issued and no payment date has been announced. If a postcard or email notice arrived, the action to take now is to file before November 3.

What Changed Recently?

The claim window opened. The court granted preliminary approval and the settlement administrator, Rust Consulting, Inc., began the notice program described in the Settlement Agreement: a direct email to class members Schnucks has addresses for, follow-up notices, postcards to addresses that bounce, and a banner linking to the settlement website inside the Schnucks Rewards app. The Notice sets the class period as May 2, 2020 through August 7, 2026; the Settlement Agreement defines that period as ending on the date of preliminary approval.

The underlying case is Garcia v. Schnuck Markets, Inc., Case No. 25SL-CC04761, filed in the Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri on May 5, 2025. The petition alleges that when a Schnucks Rewards member redeemed Rewards Points on a purchase, Schnucks calculated and charged Missouri sales tax on the full pre-discount price rather than on the lower discounted price, and pleads unlawful, unfair, deceptive and misleading practices along with unjust enrichment, negligence, and money had and received. Schnucks moved to dismiss and to compel arbitration in June 2025, withdrew the arbitration motion before argument, and the court denied the motion to dismiss on September 9, 2025. The parties mediated on January 13, 2026 before Bradley A. Winters and signed the Settlement Agreement in June 2026.

Schnucks denies all allegations of wrongdoing and disclaims liability on every claim. The Settlement Agreement states that it is made without any admission or concession of liability, and the settlement website's own summary says the company entered into the settlement to reach an expedient, agreeable solution and to move forward with clarity and a continued focus on its customers. The court has made no determination on the merits.

Who Qualifies?

The settlement class is Schnucks Rewards Members, excluding Schnucks employees, who completed purchases of tax-eligible items from any Schnucks store in the state of Missouri during the class period, whether in person or online, in which Rewards Points were redeemed by the customer. The class period runs from May 2, 2020 through August 7, 2026.

Four elements have to line up. You had to be enrolled in the Schnucks Rewards program. The purchase had to be at a Missouri store — Schnucks operates in several states, and the case is about Missouri sales tax. The items had to be tax-eligible, so a purchase made up entirely of exempt goods does not count. And Rewards Points had to be redeemed on that transaction; an ordinary purchase at the shelf price is outside the class no matter how much you spent.

The Notice and the Claim Form add a qualifier the Settlement Agreement's class definition does not spell out: the purchases must have been primarily for personal, family or household purposes. The paper Claim Form asks you to confirm that, along with confirming that it is your first and only claim and that you are not a Schnucks employee or an immediate family member of one.