Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Donald - my hero]

Another weary hunter here as well. Like others have mentioned, shopping has become a chore that i enjoy less and less as time passes. It seems that people think they once they slap a mask on all other protocols are no longer required and they reach in front of you for things, push to get past, ignore direction signs on floors & end of aisles, stores have stopped cleaning carts and most annoying for me is that stocking seems to have fallen back to pre:COVID-19 levels, ABYSMAL! Grocery shopping has always been an outing for us, we enjoy the time together (heck we actually paid a sitter to stay with the kids so we could go out shopping!!) and now that I'm doing it on my own it just SUCKS!

I need a bunch of stuff this week and I'm waiting to see what offers pop up from Metro, they've been pretty pathetic the last couple of weeks, i need a threshold spend!!!

 

[dancin Disney style]

I collect tea towels - like you, they’re practical and don’t take up much space. We usually get a new Christmas ornament every trip, and my guilty pleasure is a new Pandora charm per trip. I’ve debated getting into the Alex and Ani bracelets and have held off so far, but may just pick up a couple on our 2021 trip.

My last two WDW trips I bought a park exclusive Pandora charm. It's funny because DH gave me the bracelet for Christmas a few years ago and he bought one with a diamond clasp which I said was beautiful just as it was and I would not add any charms. I swear I'm not getting any more. DD who is my usual WDW partner has several Alex and Ani's that we have to trek to DS to get from (I think it's called) Ever After Jewelers just because they have the best selection on property.

 

[ottawamom]

Congrats Jacqueline on the 1300 pages. Who would have ever thought a little discussion about Airmiles would go this long.

 

[CanadianKrista]

UPDATE: WDW replied to my email and provided the necessary information to support the transactions. I called AMEX tonight and the representative tonight told me that there was no issue with the fact that I had received several cheques for credit balances - the issue was because the purchase and credit were issued under different names. I have now uploaded a copy of the email from WDW to AMEX and I am keeping my fingers crossed they issue my cheque.

I'm glad you got that all worked out! How did you request a cheque from Amex? I just got a credit on mine from Mirvish for the 9(!) tickets for Come From Away that were refunded, and I'm wondering how I get that to usable funds....

 

[Pumpkin1172]

I just got a minute to take a look at the flyer for Safeway. It looks like there are a couple of items I might try to stop and pick up and get a couple of miles.

I'll just keep collecting the miles for now. I'm in no rush to cash them out on merchandise. I'll keep collecting and cross my fingers that within the next 12 -18 months that we will have some sort of normalcy in our lives again

 

[hdrolfe]

I did go to Sobeys for groceries today, I had a couple loaded offers that I thought would be good, neither one was on my receipt so I called and they took care of it. It's always so quick! I should remember that and call more often. Any way, not a big haul but 35 AM for my groceries this week. All stuff we need, except the chocolate bars, those I just wanted

 

[juniorbugman]

I did my Sobey's shop today and earned 60 airmiles so only another 40 to go for my bonus deal of earn 100 miles get 60 bonus miles. I will get those next week when I do my weekly shop. I don't collect miles for anything in particular so I will keep shopping at Sobey's as I like the store better than the nearby Superstore and I never get good points there because I don't shop for my loaded offers very often. I also know all the staff so feel better going there and I never have to stand in a line as the store usually isn't too busy. I went to superstore the other day and the checkout line was long.
I may or may not redeem my airmiles for a Traeger grill. It is only a travelling one but it may be worth it to get one for the house. I follow a BBQ guru who swears by them and I would like to try some of her recipes on a Traeger.

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

I'm glad you got that all worked out! How did you request a cheque from Amex? I just got a credit on mine from Mirvish for the 9(!) tickets for Come From Away that were refunded, and I'm wondering how I get that to usable funds....

All you have to do is call AMEX and request the credit to be refunded to you by cheque. When you call have available the date of the original transaction so they can match it up.

 

[dancin Disney style]

So I messed up.....I have the BMO offer to spend $50 at Sobeys and earn 30 miles. Not much but I figured it was an easy one. I get the few items that I need and I'm only at around $28 so as I wander the store I realize that I can just get a gift card.
SO WHAT DID I DO...…...I first bought the gift card and then my groceries and used the card to pay for my groceries. I start walking out of the store and it hits me like a brick to the face. I've got until the 26th so I'll be heading back to buy another gift card.

 

[tinkerone]

So I messed up.....I have the BMO offer to spend $50 at Sobeys and earn 30 miles. Not much but I figured it was an easy one. I get the few items that I need and I'm only at around $28 so as I wander the store I realize that I can just get a gift card.
SO WHAT DID I DO...…...I first bought the gift card and then my groceries and used the card to pay for my groceries. I start walking out of the store and it hits me like a brick to the face. I've got until the 26th so I'll be heading back to buy another gift card.

Did you pay for the gift card with your MasterCard? Would that not fulfill your commitment?

 

[ottawamom]

I can confirm (from experience) that BMO doesn't care what you purchase so long as it is at Sobeys and is on your Mastercard. Was the offer for purchase in one transaction or was it a cumulative spend? If cumulative you may not have that much more to spend on your second shop.

 

[dancin Disney style]

Did you pay for the gift card with your MasterCard? Would that not fulfill your commitment?

No...I bought the gift card with my MC ($25) but then paid for my $28 groceries with the gift card. I had to spend $50 on the MC.

I just went back to Sobeys and bought another $25 gift card so now I’m good.

BTW....the Cheerio offer is for really small boxes that they don’t have. Just to make it confusing they have, what I consider the small boxes (400g) on sale for $3.99 which is what is mentioned in the flyer as the single unit price for the ones with the airmiles attached.

 

[dancin Disney style]

I can confirm (from experience) that BMO doesn't care what you purchase so long as it is at Sobeys and is on your Mastercard. Was the offer for purchase in one transaction or was it a cumulative spend? If cumulative you may not have that much more to spend on your second shop.

It is a cumulative spend...so all is good now

 

[Donald - my hero]

I had a busy day yesterday - ok, BC (Before COVID-19) I would have considered it a slow day, but you get it! Every shopping trip takes at least twice as long and coming home with it takes even longer!!!

First I dropped off some pottery that I'd painted so it can get fired. The sewing machine is at the hospital because i was cursing it with EVERY.SINGLE.MASK. i sewed since it was dropping stitches, thread kept breaking and the tension was never right. So I wanted something productive to waste my time with and I've been looking at getting 2 butter dishes (hubby eats salted and i use unsalted due to the food allergies since salt isn't just salt!) and a better milk jug than the stupid plastic ones & I figured why not make them myself! I'll share pictures next week when i pick them up. That required heading downtown and finding a parking spot which is a nightmare due to the streets being closed to accommodate patio dining

After that I figured i would drive home past Costco to see if it was busy and when i saw no line up and LOTS of parking spots i decided to pop in. WOW, big changes there that I'm not a fan of: no line because they are no longer limiting people in the store, everyone is wearing masks due to our mandate but that just seems to give people the idea they no longer need to socially distance. Soooo many pushy people, reaching in front of me, making snide remarks because i was waiting my turn to go down aisles that I felt panicky! I couldn't find any CDN taters other than russets and they turn to mush when i cook them according the the allergist suggestion AND i forgot to buy steaks

Realized I was going to need to go to Metro to get milk, taters, nacho chips that hubby likes only they carry, and ice cream bars he loves but not until we headed out for our after dinner walk (which became 8 last night). Figured i wouldn't be able to go till today since they've been closing at 8 but when i checked Google, SURPRISE, open regular hours now, 7 - 10, SCORE! There might have been 10 other people there (guess i wasn't the only one who assumed they closed at 8) I STILL forgot the steaks but managed to get everything else. I wasn't happy to notice the signs that were only at the tills that they're now charging for bags again but since i refuse to pay for something i don't want anyway, I just scanned the stuff, put it up on the shelf, then tossed it back into the cart and packed in into the bags when i got to the car.

AIRMILES connection: I didn't realize until i woke up this morning that I didn't even check my receipt to see how many miles i earned, I'm truly not in the hunt right now Spent $74.78 and earned a whopping 12 miles and 9 of those were targeted milk offers!!

 

[ottawamom]

I beat you but only slightly. At Metro I spent $87 and got a whopping, wait for it 20AM. My total for the month is just over 500AM. I used to do 1500-2000 a month. Ah! the good old days. Please come back.

 

[alohamom]

making snide remarks because i was waiting my turn to go down aisles that I felt panicky!

I know exactly how you feel, the same thing happened to me at Costco last week. I stood waiting for my turn to enter an isle and I had a person come up behind me and make a remark. It was awful!

 

[juniorbugman]

The sewing machine is at the hospital because i was cursing it with EVERY.SINGLE.MASK. i sewed since it was dropping stitches, thread kept breaking and the tension was never right.

I feel your pain. I too keep yelling at my sewing machine and keep saying to myself " that I should oil it and see if that fixes the problem". I will have to get to that because my sister wants me to make her more masks and I have to make pillow covers for the couch cushions at the cottage.

 

[bababear_50]

I decided to pick up a few toothbrushes and toothpaste from Sobeys because they ended up having double airmiles attached to them.
Spend $10.00.=50 Airmiles.
I also grabbed two canisters of In The Raw Sugar, which I like in my tea. 20 Airmiles .
Total airmiles 70 ---not bad.
Hugs
Mel

 

[bababear_50]

I ordered the new Canadian Candles from Airmiles today.
Stocking it away for my daughter inlaw for her Birthday in the Fall.
Serendipity Candles Spa Time Bundle
936 Dream Miles

Hugs
Mel

 

[ottawamom]

Love those candles Mel, what a great idea. I'll have to go online and have a look.