Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[ebharris]

That is some investigative journalism you did there. I knew that sometimes the flyers website and actual in store varied. I had no idea that we had 3 different zones in our little city.



Once someone ahead of me had a huge order and they didn't have an AM card. I asked if she wanted to use mine and she did. I can't remember if the AM posted or not. Nothing ventured nothing gained. (All is fair in the Airmiles hunt.)

My Sobeys won’t let you do this anymore. It used to happen occasionally, but a few years ago they started telling you you couldn’t do it. They said because if you do a return you have to have the AM number with you, I’m not sure if that’s true or if it’s just their way of saving miles! Sounds like their way of saving miles regardless...

 

[momof2gr8kids]

Snagged 522 AM today with Blue Friday. Felt good to finally get a big chunk all at once. It's been a while!

 

[Silvermist999]

I didn't look at the flyer in the store - but it sounds like the same issue I ran into last night. I don't get flyer delivery to my house so can't verify. The way Sobeys would work is that someone at Sobeys Ontario on Eglinton and Dixie area would load all of the deals, including the air miles into a system which pushed them to the store POS systems. The store people then log in and it prints out all of the shelf tags (sales, airmiles etc). So it should be consistent with all stores. Sounds like they had a goof on their flyer - one version to the printer and another to their digital. No wonder the confusion!

We don't get the Sobeys flyer delivered to us with our other flyers. I rely on the Flipp app for the weekly Sobeys flyer, and if it weren't for you all sharing your flyers, I would never have known about the ice cream deal. Because that entire page is missing from the flyer posted on Flipp!!!

 

[osully]

I just stopped in to the Kanata Terry Fox to get more ice cream and they didn't have any flyers to look at but I reconfirmed that Egg Bakes are not giving any AMs at that location. Oh well....frankly they don't look so appetizing from the carton - has anybody tried them?

Yes - I love them. Very convenient low calorie breakfast. I actually don't even like eggs. I prefer the ham & cheese ones.

 

[kerreyn]

Yes - I love them. Very convenient low calorie breakfast. I actually don't even like eggs. I prefer the ham & cheese ones.

I've been looking for the Egg Bakes here, but I guess they haven't make it out west yet.

 

[osully]

Thanks for the investigating. Interesting to learn different stores within 15 mins have different flyers!!

 

[Days In the Sun]

My Sobeys won’t let you do this anymore. It used to happen occasionally, but a few years ago they started telling you you couldn’t do it. They said because if you do a return you have to have the AM number with you, I’m not sure if that’s true or if it’s just their way of saving miles! Sounds like their way of saving miles regardless...

Well if that is the case, they could just fix the system . I'll buy into the part that they don't want to pay for any airmiles that they don't have to.

Personally, I prefer that my airmiles number (even if it is just a partial) and my points aren't listed on someone else's receipt.

 

[isabellea]

I'm really jealous of your offers this week. IGA QC has a total of 5 AM (FIVE!!!) in their flyer. I think it's a new low. Usually I would drive to Ottawa for a really big promo but there's no way the ice cream would stay frozen for the 1h50 drive to go back home!

 

[Days In the Sun]

I'm really jealous of your offers this week. IGA QC has a total of 5 AM (FIVE!!!) in their flyer. I think it's a new low. Usually I would drive to Ottawa for a really big promo but there's no way the ice cream would stay frozen for the 1h50 drive to go back home!

I feel for you, the airmiles program has never provided equal opportunity for all Canadians. Does IGA have receipt surveys? I did my Sobey's receipt survey today, gave them positive feedback but stated that they really need to consider providing Blue Friday's in Ontario as well. The truth is at the time I was a bit ticked off about the Blue Friday Melitta coffee deal out west as I've been waiting to buy some lol. Anyway, I'm over it, but still without coffee.

 

[ottawamom]

My Sobeys won’t let you do this anymore. It used to happen occasionally, but a few years ago they started telling you you couldn’t do it. They said because if you do a return you have to have the AM number with you, I’m not sure if that’s true or if it’s just their way of saving miles! Sounds like their way of saving miles regardless...

I did this once a probably two years ago. It must not have worked because I didn't try it again.

 

[buyerbrad]

I wish the Universal airmiles tickets were the old ones with no expiry,,,
9 months from the time of purchase for Canadians is a bit short in my opinion.
Hugs Mel

P.S. O/T (off topic)
anyone else like the new resort they announced for Universal (Endless Summer)
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs...nnounces-details-on-new-resort-endless-summer

The resort will be a combination of two hotels, Surfside Inn & Suites and Dockside Inn & Suites. These two hotels will be Universal's first lower price-point properties, with one-bedrooms starting at $73 a night, and two-bedroom suites starting at $111.

Yes I know what you are thinking
"Mel has gone over to the "Dark Side". Yes I do actually love Universal!

I redeemed 4 X 2-day passes to Busch Gardens/SeaWorld that had 9 month expiry dates in the terms on April 1st for December 2018. They were printed Feb 8, 2018 and stated 1 Year expiry on the ticket. We gained an extra month, but anybody in the future should pay attention to the ticket print date. I noticed the Canadian Ticket Deal expires on the Busch Gardens/SeaWorld website in mid April.

 

[osully]

We are out of diswasher tabs and I have coupons for Cascade so I checked to see what offers are at Rexall right now. Nothing very good! Was hoping for a spend $50 get something at least...

Unfortunately don't have much in the beauty promo to buy.

 

[osully]

My closest Rexall is right next to FreshCo so I will probably just check prices at both and buy wherever cheaper if there are no actual offers... will get miles on my AM credit card anyways!

 

[hdrolfe]

I have a spend $50 get 80 AM in my load n go for Rexall Wed & Thur next week.

 

[dancin Disney style]

So I know we’ve discussed the gift card redeeming with PC Optimum points a few times. I can confirm that if you make a grocery purchase, add in a gift card and then redeem points to cover the gift card...it works. However, you groceries must be more than the amount of the gift card.

I bought $120 in groceries and then had the cashier check to make sure my new PC Card was working and that I was able to redeem points. She confirmed it was good so I added in a $100 gift card and redeemed 100k points. She knew exactly what I was up to and said for future to make sure the groceries always cost more than the gift card.

BTW, I stood at the gift card shelf and it was VERY hard not to take the Disney cards. No trip planned at the moment so I had to restrain myself and just get the grocery card.

 

[dancin Disney style]

Ohhhh....just had a thought....since the dumb people at PC gave me an additional 70k points for my troubles maybe that might turn itself into Disney gift cards

 

[osully]

Spent $43 at Rexall. Got 2AM and a $10 off $10 or more coupon valid til April 19. My receipt says I saved $40 though so that's pretty good?!

FYI - FreshCo Barrhaven had some tearpads for the Burnbrae Egg Bakes - $1 off. However they do say only 1 coupon per customer so Sobeys would probably only let you use 1 per transaction.

 

[ottawamom]

My closest Rexall is right next to FreshCo so I will probably just check prices at both and buy wherever cheaper if there are no actual offers... will get miles on my AM credit card anyways!

You can use a Sobeys/Foodland GC at FreshCo if you picked up any of those a few weeks back.

FYI - FreshCo Barrhaven had some tearpads for the Burnbrae Egg Bakes - $1 off. However they do say only 1 coupon per customer so Sobeys would probably only let you use 1 per transaction.

They had the coupons at Sobeys as well on Thursday. And yes you could only use 1 at a time.

 

[pigletto]

So I know we’ve discussed the gift card redeeming with PC Optimum points a few times. I can confirm that if you make a grocery purchase, add in a gift card and then redeem points to cover the gift card...it works. However, you groceries must be more than the amount of the gift card.

I bought $120 in groceries and then had the cashier check to make sure my new PC Card was working and that I was able to redeem points. She confirmed it was good so I added in a $100 gift card and redeemed 100k points. She knew exactly what I was up to and said for future to make sure the groceries always cost more than the gift card.

BTW, I stood at the gift card shelf and it was VERY hard not to take the Disney cards. No trip planned at the moment so I had to restrain myself and just get the grocery card.

Good to know, thank you. I’ll be cashing out for $100 next weekend. I am killing it with the PC points.. the offers have been great lately. I never thought about buying other types of gift cards other than the PC ones.. interesting.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Just back from Sobeys ... what a day THAT was! First our free movie -- Lara Croft reboot, in a theatre that in the process of getting renovated so the seats were HUGE electric recliners. Fairly decent movie that was made better because it was FREE! We then spent about 20 minutes studying flyers & maps to figure out which Sobeys had a) pharmacy to use the MM coupon and b) the ice cream deal. Turned out we couldn't find one store that had BOTH so we picked the closest one with ice cream deal, cause .. ICE CREAM!

Get to said Sobeys and do our regular up & down the aisles to catch the deals that aren't in the flyer and picked up 2 boxes of Borax $5.49 buy 2 get 15 AM and a sleeve of drinking boxes for loaded offer of 6 AM. Time to hit up the ice cream coolers and DANG the entire section that held the $3.99 treats was EMPTY ... nothing, nada, rien, and the section that held the $4.99 treats was beyond picked over. I headed over to the customer service desk and asked if he could call another store to see if they had the offer even if it wasn't in the flyer. Yup, deal is on but limited stock so better hurry, that's ok though, it has a pharmacy!

Get to our regular Sobeys and wouldn't you know it, it was 6:07 so the pharmacy section was CLOSED! But, the ice cream section?!?!? Was fully stocked with all of our favourite treats Got 8 boxes of treat and 1 container of the real dairy french vanilla ice cream.

Total spent at both stores : $66.60 (that's freaky!) and snagged 256 AM