Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[ottawamom]

Product review. Hot off the press.

My son just got up and went to the fridge for something to eat. He pulled out one of the new cheesecake creams and they get a . He said the one thing that might make it better is a little graham cracker crumbs (cheesecake base) or maybe some chopped nuts. I think I'll have to go back to the store and get more of these. He said they are way better than the yogurts with candy/cookies (from a few weeks ago)

OT. Still no Rexall AM from Monday.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Which flavours did you try of the cheesecake things?? If they're good I'm planning on buying LOTS .. they've stopped carrying my yogurt and i really need to push my calcium intake up and milk doesn't excite me

No Rexall miles for me either BTW

 

[ottawamom]

At my store they only had 2 flavours, chocolate (220 cal) and strawberry (170 cal) for those who are counting cal. DS tried the chocolate I had a taste and it was good. Nice portion controlled dessert or snack or in DS case breakfast. I hate to say what kind of damage I can do to a real cheesecake so portion control is a good thing.

 

[Silvermist999]

At my store they only had 2 flavours, chocolate (220 cal) and strawberry (170 cal) for those who are counting cal. DS tried the chocolate I had a taste and it was good. Nice portion controlled dessert or snack or in DS case breakfast. I hate to say what kind of damage I can do to a real cheesecake so portion control is a good thing.

I think I *need* to buy the chocolate ones to try out, 220 cal is a bit high, thanks for the review!

 

[Sailormoon2]

getting a puppy tomorrow

That is always happy news! what breed?

 

[tinkerone]

At my store they only had 2 flavours, chocolate (220 cal) and strawberry (170 cal) for those who are counting cal. DS tried the chocolate I had a taste and it was good. Nice portion controlled dessert or snack or in DS case breakfast. I hate to say what kind of damage I can do to a real cheesecake so portion control is a good thing.

My store had cherry as well.

 

[marchingstar]

Alberta safeway flyer has the regular coupon (well, spend 100$ get 100AM) for next week. I looked through the flyer this morning and nothing caught my eye, and although I could spend 100$ I don't need to this week (the pantry and freezer are in pretty good shape), so I did my weekly shop this morning instead and used the spend 50/earn 100 coupon. All told, I spend 59$ and earned 127 miles.

I checked for the cheesecake cups you're finding out in ON--I hate chocolate, but the fruit flavours sound like a great treat for me--but I'm not seeing them on shelves out here.

 

[momof2gr8kids]

I don't see anything worth rushing to Safeway this week. :-(. I am however using my Cineplex tickets I got for Beauty and the Beast tonight! So excited to see it.

 

[hdrolfe]

That is always happy news! what breed?

We are getting a cockapoo. He's black with a little white chin. My son is very excited. He wanted a brother, I'm getting him a dog instead

those cheesecake things are sounding great, chocolate, cherry, strawberry! I hope my store has all 3 to try

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Safeway ( West - Alberta ) seems a bust this week for airmiles. Superstore has good points for me this week...including 5000 points for a gas fill. So I think I will be hitting up No frills/ then finishing off at Costco. Have a few bulk items I need to get. If I have time, I might try to walk the isles at Safeway for more in store AM deals.

 

[Donald - my hero]

My Rexall miles posted today (sometime between 10 & 11 - odd!) pushing me over 5000 -- rarely does it get this high and I'm itching to do something with them but no idea what that should be!
Rexall flyer is up but other than the spend $50.00 get 100 i see no reason to go!
Rexall Flyer

 

[ottawamom]

Mine did too! I was getting anxious checking a couple of times a day. Just did a $50 shop and got 110AM (weekend deal). Came home and I figure I've got another $50 I can do before Sunday (stocking up for Easter). Sobey's is a bust for me this week. It's Metro for those cheesecake creams and Rexall for me this weekend.

 

[pigletto]

I used some of my airmiles to book a car rentals for our upcoming Universal trip today. It was both a good and intensely frustrating experience.
We are flying into Fort Lauderdale for our May trip (super budget bonus trip and our leftover flight credit made the $59 flights free). So I had to book two one way rentals, as it was out of budget to rent the car for the whole trip. This will get is there with time to spare and back to the airport, and each rental was 380 airmiles, and 410 airmiles respectively. Taxes around $11 each. So that was fabulous.

Now for the not fabulous. It took me well over an HOUR to book the darn things. I booked one leg with few issues. Then for the return rental it told me the location didn't exist. Over and over and over. I tried changing the time, playing with the address, changing the size of the car.. nothing. So I gave up and rented from a slightly further location. For that one, every time I got to the check out screen it changed the rental from a one way to a return and had me picking up and dropping of the car to the same place. NO.

So while I am super happy I had the miles to rent the cars for free, I wanted to warn everyone how glitchy their online booking system can be.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Early heads up for NEXT week's Rexall coupon --- it will more than likely be the offer i just loaded to my card ... Spend $40.00 get 60 AM . There's no way i could create a $50.00 sale this weekend but i *might* stretch to a $40.00 one

ETA ... just got ANOTHER e-mail and thought people who have some extra STB miles hanging around might be interested in this!

 

[ottawamom]

Thanks @Donald - my hero I haven't used any of my STB miles yet. I've been waiting for offers like this to show up. I get the emails usually but I don't remember this one.

 

[AngelDisney]

Early heads up for NEXT week's Rexall coupon --- it will more than likely be the offer i just loaded to my card ... Spend $40.00 get 60 AM . There's no way i could create a $50.00 sale this weekend but i *might* stretch to a $40.00 one

ETA ... just got ANOTHER e-mail and thought people who have some extra STB miles hanging around might be interested in this!

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Thanks! I still have STB cash miles to use. I will check out Rexall next week.

 

[ottawamom]

Early heads up for NEXT week's Rexall coupon --- it will more than likely be the offer i just loaded to my card ... Spend $40.00 get 60 AM . There's no way i could create a $50.00 sale this weekend but i *might* stretch to a $40.00 one

ETA ... just got ANOTHER e-mail and thought people who have some extra STB miles hanging around might be interested in this!

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Is there anything more we need to know about the offer? A coupon or anything. I still haven't received the email. Sometimes you get yours days before I get the same one. I was watching Marketplace last night and I'm paranoid about AM targeting offers to those who can't take advantage of them again. I have lots of Cash miles and therefore they may not send that email to me . Thanks for your help.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Is there anything more we need to know about the offer? A coupon or anything. I still haven't received the email. Sometimes you get yours days before I get the same one. I was watching Marketplace last night and I'm paranoid about AM targeting offers to those who can't take advantage of them again. I have lots of Cash miles and therefore they may not send that email to me . Thanks for your help.

This was part of my weekly e-mail from Airmiles proper with the subject line "Get 100 Bonus Miles at Rexall this weekend!" I get this email every Friday and at the bottom of the page it shows 4 more offers that seem to be "triggered" not so much as targeted -- based on our shopping patterns offers are shown that relate (maybe, who knows )
This week shows these 4 -- we buy a LOT of vitamins. On the week my Load + Go offers are "new" they all show here.


NOW, all that being said when i click on the "Learn more" box it just takes me to the Rexall page to see the flyer and this offer is NOT in the flyer. For some odd reason we rarely get an actual flyer in our bundle so I had pointed this out without being able to verify it. Of course, this week it DID appear (not once but 3 of them, STUPID) and I can't see this anywhere. Maybe it will show up in everyone's e-mail on Monday when the spend $40.00 get 60 AM coupon does.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Thanks to whoever alerted us to the fact that on-line shopping has a 25X bonus offer running right now! Hubby has had his eye on a new printer at Staples and it's pricey so when it appeared in the flyer this week I suggested we order it online. Just did and it will net us around 325 AM (that's AFTER we apply the price match Staples has with the price Best Buy has on the printer this week!)

 

[ottawamom]

Thanks for the update re Rexall @Donald - my hero. I really hope it shows up on Monday with the email because I would love to take advantage of it. I looked at my load and go and I have the spend $40 get 60 loaded and ready to go.