Used to be every year, Amex in Canada would run a "Shop Local" promo where you'd get $5 back on a transaction over $10 at smaller places x5 in a month, and let

Used to be every year, Amex in Canada would run a "Shop Local" promo where you'd get $5 back on a transaction over $10 at smaller places x5 in a month, and let you look up who's a part of the program on a map. Then you'd visit a lot of them and they'd claim to not accept Amex!