Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[NorthernGrl]

woohoo!!

 

[ttaylorcan]

Would anyone happen to know how Sobeys posts their airmiles? I know they post Wednesday night (from some kind person on this thread) and are cumulative for the week, but I'm not sure when the week ends and whether giftcard promos are different (I think they are longer???). Also, do Foodland points work the same?

I'm trying to adjust the cash/dream preference slider to be close to 95 airmiles without going over too much. Any incite would be appreciated.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Would anyone happen to know how Sobeys posts their airmiles? I know they post Wednesday night (from some kind person on this thread) and are cumulative for the week, but I'm not sure when the week ends and whether giftcard promos are different (I think they are longer???). Also, do Foodland points work the same?

I'm trying to adjust the cash/dream preference slider to be close to 95 airmiles without going over too much. Any incite would be appreciated.

A quick glance at the site (ok took me forever to find my glasses and then still needed to squint ) says their week is Sunday - Saturday, and my Gift Card purchases that i made this weekend at Foodland (same parent company) showed up on my receipt and last promotion they posted that week as well. I'm playing the balancing act as well because we've never done the Cash Miles route.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Here's the link to the $5.00 coupon for Rexall
Spend $25.00 save $5.00 good till Dec 5th

 

[tgropp]

I got a shop the block booklet with the coupons that using 7 will get you 1900 Airmiles. Did anyone else get an email with the same offer but it has plenty more coupons than the book. I would presume that they are all good for the promo. Anyone else get the email?

 

[ttaylorcan]

A quick glance at the site (ok took me forever to find my glasses and then still needed to squint ) says their week is Sunday - Saturday, and my Gift Card purchases that i made this weekend at Foodland (same parent company) showed up on my receipt and last promotion they posted that week as well. I'm playing the balancing act as well because we've never done the Cash Miles route.

Thank you Donald, sounds like I'm safe to shop today and set my "slider" for only last week's purchases. You'd think they'd set them for the "flyer week" but I guess that sometimes changes which would add to the confusion. I'll cross my fingers, I only want 95 cash miles for now as I need the dream miles.

 

[Donald - my hero]

I got a shop the block booklet with the coupons that using 7 will get you 1900 Airmiles. Did anyone else get an email with the same offer but it has plenty more coupons than the book. I would presume that they are all good for the promo. Anyone else get the email?

YES, this has been a topic of conversation for the last few pages (ok more like THE topic) Head to page 119 and start at post 2365. Read thru from that point and you will see the strategies others are using. A few of us are almost already done and it only started a week ago. Have fun on the hunt and let us know how you do!

 

[Aladora]

Looks like a good Thrifty's week for me! I love when they have the buy $100 Smile Card, get $10 free up to $500/$50 free!

Thrifty Foods

 

[tgropp]

YES, this has been a topic of conversation for the last few pages (ok more like THE topic) Head to page 119 and start at post 2365. Read thru from that point and you will see the strategies others are using. A few of us are almost already done and it only started a week ago. Have fun on the hunt and let us know how you do!

Thanks. I also read that it is only for Airmiles cashmiles so unfortunately it is of no interest to me

 

[ottawamom]

Thanks. I also read that it is only for Airmiles cashmiles so unfortunately it is of no interest to me

The offers each have bonus miles (dream or cash, whatever you have your account set to ) so that's a plus. The bonus (cash miles) at the end can be used to take advantage of those spend 95 Cash AM get 25 AM (again your bonus 25 is whatever your account is set to). I like you, didn't think too much of the promo initially but when I thought about being able to use the cash miles for this purpose I jumped on board. If you are able to do the max of the promo it equates to $200 you don't have to spend on groceries etc. You could use them in 700AM increments to reduce your grocery bill at Metro, Sobey's or Foodland.

I have my account set to 100% cash today so that I can take advantage of the Metro coupon in a couple of weeks. Once I have enough cash AM to use the coupon I'll go back to 100% dream as this is where I prefer to collect them.

Have another look at the promo you may see it differently now.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Thanks. I also read that it is only for Airmiles cashmiles so unfortunately it is of no interest to me

You can then turn around and use these cash miles at Shell to *purchase* gift cards, so if you work the system you will end up with $200.00 in giftcards. That's our plan for these. If checked the fine print on the Airmiles site this is what the exclusions show as for the grocery stores


But if you look at Shell it says


You don't need to switch your account around to Cash it will automatically dump them in there. The reason some of us are talking about that is Metro has one that says use 95 Cash Miles get 25 Bonus and that will be another coupon used.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Ok, I was confused about the 95/25 deal being discussed.

But, what if my AM from Sobeys don't post before the weekend and my account is switched to Cash to use the coupons? I am waiting for 260 from Sobeys from last week.

 

[ottawamom]

I'm still trying to completely work it out. This is what I've seen so far. I shopped at Rexall on Sunday. Changed from Dream (100%) to Cash(100%) Sunday evening. This changed my preference at 3:00am (early Monday). My AM posted from my Rexall purchase on Monday as Dream Miles. I believe it is your preference on the transaction day (day you make your purchase) that dictates which "pool" your AM are deposited into.

Again, I have had experience with only one transaction posting but I should be able to confirm more when my Metro AM post tomorrow (earned last week when my preference was 100% Dream, my account is currently set to Cash 100%). I will post more when it goes through.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Ok, I was confused about the 95/25 deal being discussed.

But, what if my AM from Sobeys don't post before the weekend and my account is switched to Cash to use the coupons? I am waiting for 260 from Sobeys from last week.

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking here?? The only coupon i see that is related to Cash miles is the one at Metro ... if you use 95 Cash Miles (which is enough for $10.00) you will earn 25 Airmiles which will be deposited to your account based on the ratio you have determined. All of the bonus miles will be deposited based on what you have your account set to at the time ---the ones that will get deposited into your Cash account will only happen at the end of the promotion (in February 2017) and will be based on how many coupons you used. Those miles will be dumped into your Cash account even if your earning ratio is 100% Dream.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

All of the bonus miles will be deposited based on what you have your account set to at the time ---the ones that will get deposited into your Cash account will only happen at the end of the promotion (in February 2017) and will be based on how many coupons you used. Those miles will be dumped into your Cash account even if your earning ratio is 100% Dream.

Oooohhh, now I get it! I think. LOL

So let's say with the 7 coupons I use, I earn 200 bonus air miles. Those go into my current Dream account.
In February 2017, since I used the full 7 coupons, those 1900 bonus air miles go into the Cash account on their own, not affecting my Dream miles collecting.

Am I correct?

 

[ottawamom]

Yes exactly! You got it.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Holy crap, that fried my brain LOL

Yikes! I better get going on some of these!

 

[pigletto]

Just a heads up in case anyone missed it. My online Shop the Block offers now include the Airmiles.ca 20x offer. You have to spend a minimum of $20 and it counts as one of your seven offers. For that offer I'll be making sure to click on the Shop the Block coupon and shop through there to make sure it credits.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

If you use your bmo air miles mastercard for your 7 purchases, that counts as one offer too. There is a link where you enter your am number.

 

[Donald - my hero]

It's a good thing that Rexall posts within 24 hours ... you would think with the comments here about the Marks GC not appearing on the receipts i would have been more observant but noooo, i ended up in a very animated and rather involved conversation with one of my favourite cashiers about our plans for Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales to maximize our AM. We rang them all through separately and the Sears ones both worked so we didn't look at the last 2.

Oh well, just added another errand to my birthday outing and he added an EXTRA 20 for my troubles (Unfortunately they won't show up quickly enough to count towards my Cash miles for the Metro offer)