Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[marcyleecorgan]

Nope nothing for me this week either...

 

[osully]

Nobody else eats bread, tortillas, pitas, or bagels? lol I guess we are unhealthy!

At least will get 40AM at Sobeys by doing 2 of that offer.

Then will probably go back on the weekend to shop my targeted offers and hopefully participate in that contest. Looks like the scratch cards will only be given on Fri, Sat, and Sun. $50 Spend plus a participating item?!

Will see if they have anything up about that tonight on my bread run!

 

[TFC_UNTIL_I_DIE]

I did a troll run to Sobeys at lunch....meh....nothing to write home about for off-flyer AM offers....most of them were backwards ratios

 

[Donald - my hero]

Nothing pops up for me in either Firefox or IE.

Nope nothing for me this week either...

Here's the direct link (psst i just took it from the first post)

RONA Newsletter sign up

 

[Days In the Sun]

Nobody else eats bread, tortillas, pitas, or bagels? lol I guess we are unhealthy!

At least will get 40AM at Sobeys by doing 2 of that offer.

Then will probably go back on the weekend to shop my targeted offers and hopefully participate in that contest. Looks like the scratch cards will only be given on Fri, Sat, and Sun. $50 Spend plus a participating item?!

Will see if they have anything up about that tonight on my bread run!

I'm in too! Combining with 25 am when you use 95. Sobey's instore offers are until June 20 this time, so lots of time to do those. I bought Egg Creations last week, $2.99, 10 am wub 2 and $1 off coupons in front of the product.

I'm also doing Metro, all our accounts have 5 am spend $5 personal offers so 55 am back when we use 95.

 

[TFC_UNTIL_I_DIE]

My Sobeys threshold offer was 35AM on $230 spend!

 

[Donald - my hero]

Nothing great at Sobeys ON but I'm glad that Dempster's bread & bagels are on promo. We don't have any bread at all in the house right now and husband was not happy about it yesterday. Oops!

I highly recommend the whole grain honey oatmeal bread. YUM.

Agreed -- hubby's fav bread as well but since he can't eat very many mass-produced breads anymore ours is currently sitting on the counter rising (YUP, the Duck has taken to making bread )

So those that like the Keg, Sobeys is giving you 75/$100. Almost covers the tax
Metro has the GCs the others had last week if you missed out. 20%off Davestea, LVNR,PizzaPizza and couple of others. Thats a good deal if you need them anyway.

Don't think the person I woke up on the bus yesterday morning thought the Keg comment is as funny as you & I do

Last week keg got you 110 at shell

Not all of us are lucky enough to live within a decent drive of the stations that offer the bonus miles, but like Mort mentioned, that offer is a joke!

Nobody else eats bread, tortillas, pitas, or bagels? lol I guess we are unhealthy!

At least will get 40AM at Sobeys by doing 2 of that offer.

Then will probably go back on the weekend to shop my targeted offers and hopefully participate in that contest. Looks like the scratch cards will only be given on Fri, Sat, and Sun. $50 Spend plus a participating item?!

Will see if they have anything up about that tonight on my bread run!

If we were making a trek to Sobeys for any other offer we would load up on the bread products as well -- even though hubby can't eat his beloved honey oatmeal bread he can eat the bagels and I've been known to buy bread and toss it at our daughter & her wife on the way past their house

 

[juniorbugman]

Then will probably go back on the weekend to shop my targeted offers and hopefully participate in that contest. Looks like the scratch cards will only be given on Fri, Sat, and Sun. $50 Spend plus a participating item?!

So I was just at my Sobeys in Ajax and they have big notes on the doors that due to some printing error the contest has been cancelled but the products are still available at the sale price. They may run another one later on. I should have taken a photo of the sign but it was on the door and it kept opening and closing as I was trying to read it.

 

[bababear_50]

I did a bit of budgeting. I have a cash lump sum coming back to me for a work related conference I took in April so I have diverted the funds.
Since gas is a must for me (driving to work and back), I figured I'd buy some Canadian Tire gift cards for future gas purchases.
The closest gas station to me is Canadian Tire.(bonus).
The gas station had McDonald Gift Cards this time--YEAH!!
I hate to admit this but I need my McDonalds coffee every morning on the way into work so I bought some McDonald gift cards,,it actually will help me with the crazy bank transaction fees I pay each day to the bank.
So I spent $500.00 on Gift Cards but I know I will use them.=550 Airmiles.
Hugs Mel

 

[Disney Addicted]

Nobody else eats bread, tortillas, pitas, or bagels? lol I guess we are unhealthy!

At least will get 40AM at Sobeys by doing 2 of that offer.

Then will probably go back on the weekend to shop my targeted offers and hopefully participate in that contest. Looks like the scratch cards will only be given on Fri, Sat, and Sun. $50 Spend plus a participating item?!

Will see if they have anything up about that tonight on my bread run!

I'll be stopping at Sobey's tomorrow morning for the bread/bagels/tortillas before I go to Rexall's. Then stop at Foodland on the way home to pick up some popsicles.

So I was just at my Sobeys in Ajax and they have big notes on the doors that due to some printing error the contest has been cancelled but the products are still available at the sale price. They may run another one later on. I should have taken a photo of the sign but it was on the door and it kept opening and closing as I was trying to read it.

Huh. Thanks for the update!

 

[osully]

Yep Sobeys spend thresholds are so messed up. Metro targeted offers this week include Spend $20 Get 10AM. Now that I will gladly spend to qualify for other offers in store or just things I need...

 

[Donald - my hero]

Now that the Rexall flyers are live & I've updated the links in the first post it's time for my weekly study!
Rexall ****Only valid till Wednesday this week
Ontario Flyer
Western Flyer

• Friday & Saturday Spend $50 get 100 AM
• New batch of coupons from P & G are out and many of those items have bonus miles --so save some money and get miles
• lots of items with bonus miles but the ratios aren't wonderful YMMV on these, ok if you need the product anyway

Few things I've noticed that haven't been mentioned yet by others (if they have and i missed your comments, sorry!)

Sobeys Atlantic:

• Buy a $200 gift card get 100 AM
• Spend $12 on Hallmark cards get 20 AM (currently that's about 1.5 cards )
• taters are still $3.99 buy 2 get 10 AM
• Spend $20 on certain General Mills products get 30 AM
• Spend $10 on Dove products (soap NOT chocolates ) get 25 AM
• Elastoplast products $3.99 buy 1 get 10 AM

Sobeys Ontario :

• anyone mention the use 95 cash miles get 25 miles (deposited to your chosen account)

Sobeys Western:

• Natrel milk $7.49 buy 2 get 25 AM
• Compliments organic fruit 20% off (who knows what they cost??) buy 2 get 25 AM
• Blood glucose monitor (AGAIN) buy strips for $68 get free monitor and 200 AM

Foodland Ontario

• Use 95 cash miles get 25 miles
• Contest to celebrate 55 years: buy 1 participating product and you could win 55,000 AM or a $500 gift card (products don't look overly $$)
• Motts apple sauce $2.49 buy 2 get 10 AM
• Cavendish fries $2.99 buy 3 get 10 AM

Foodland Atlantic

• Spend $10 on Dove products (again soap NOT chocolates ) get 15 AM
• WOW, not much else here gang!!

Metro Ontario:

• Thursday - Sunday use 95 cash miles get 50 miles (deposited to your preferred account)
• Some epically BAD offers -- pillers pepperoni $8.99 get 2 AM
• Sparkling ICE beverages (who knows what they are?!)4/$5 get 10 AM
• Mug stuffed with what looks like chocolates and maybe a flower $8.99 get 10 AM
• Danone yogurts ranging from $3.49 -4.99 buy 3 get 20 AM
• Pop, ice tea and coconut water 2/$11 get 20 AM

 

[TFC_UNTIL_I_DIE]

I did a bit of budgeting. I have a cash lump sum coming back to me for a work related conference I took in April so I have diverted the funds.
Since gas is a must for me (driving to work and back), I figured I'd buy some Canadian Tire gift cards for future gas purchases.
The closest gas station to me is Canadian Tire.(bonus).
The gas station had McDonald Gift Cards this time--YEAH!!
I hate to admit this but I need my McDonalds coffee every morning on the way into work so I bought some McDonald gift cards,,it actually will help me with the crazy bank transaction fees I pay each day to the bank.
So I spent $500.00 on Gift Cards but I know I will use them.=550 Airmiles.
Hugs Mel

I did the same with the mcdonalds. You are lucky that Shell on queensway still has the offer on

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I only need 154 miles to make an even 4545 miles for 5 of the dream travel vouchers. Then that account is going to Cash miles. I'll be able to hit that easily with Sobeys this week.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

So we are getting our roof reshingled sometime soon and I think we are going with Lumbermart. I totally forgot they do air miles. AND, they give air miles on the LABOUR costs too! So our $5000 roof should net me around 290 miles (before the taxes) and then putting it on my mastercard (500 miles) will be a nice little lump some I hadn't added into my saving plans. Plus, I think we will get our new counter tops, new patio doors, entry door and storm door there too!

 

[TFC_UNTIL_I_DIE]

are you in a place that still has the Shell deal on gift cards? You could do the pre-paid mastercards on their gift card wall - 5500 AM plus pay on your mastercard (should work) for another 500. Then get 290 for the actual Lumbermart for total of 6290. It would cost you 50x$6 to activate the cards or $300 (each pre-paid is $100 at shell) but you would have $700-$1000 worth of points depending on how you use them. And check that Lumbermart is ok to process all the pre-paid mastercards. Many people seemed to be doing this with the Shell offer.

I bought up $3k of Home Depot gift cards (no activation fees) as I am putting in central vac and finishing my basement. The offer ran out in Ottawa or I would have done another 2k (max $500 per day and subject to them having the gift cards I wanted) but I still got 3600AM by charging on my BMO mastercard so $400 bucks worth or so.

 

[MoreTravels]

Regarding Shell gift cards 110AM promotion, you have to be careful about the 5 transactions per day limit. I did not know filling up the gas and paying separately with AM collection counts as one. So if you buy gas that day, you will lose the quota on that limit. I only collected 400 AM and change. In other words, you need to make separate trips for gas and cards in order to maximize your card collection.

 

[marcyleecorgan]

Nobody else eats bread, tortillas, pitas, or bagels? lol I guess we are unhealthy!

I learned how to make an awesome naan. I also learned how to use our airfryer to make yummy tortilla chips. I already have stocked up 5 loaves of bread in our freezer.
Bagels don't come into our house without capers and lox, that's a rule, so we haven't bought them in awhile.

We don't have the budget to shop for GC otherwise the Shell AM deal would be great. I don't know when we'll build the floor to ceiling bookshelves this summer but it certainly is not in my current budget to permanently allocate lumber funds to HomeDepot or RONA or some such place...

 

[alohamom]

My wonderful AM friends, I need your input.

Life has been upside down this year, every time I turn around it throws me a curve ball. It is not always bad, it has just meant some adjusting. I was hoping for our family to take a vacay this May but again, life has gotten int he way of planning (1st world problems, right?!?!)

Here is my issue. I just found out that my kids (home from Uni and working for the summer) now both have unexpected time off from May 19th to 23rd.

I pulled together a quick flight and hotel pricing and am now looking at the Air Miles Universal tickets.

IF I were to order them today (I am in Ontario)....DO YOU THINK I WOULD GET THEM IN TIME?????


I am pretty sure there is no way to expedite tix from AM but I know from past orders they come super fast. I would hate to order them and then not get them.

ARRRGGGHHH what should I do, it saves us so much to order them from AM but saves us nothing and uses up miles if I order them and dont get them in time! (I wish they let locals pick up orders)


Any input is gladly appreciated!

 

[bababear_50]

My wonderful AM friends, I need your input.

Life has been upside down this year, every time I turn around it throws me a curve ball. It is not always bad, it has just meant some adjusting. I was hoping for our family to take a vacay this May but again, life has gotten int he way of planning (1st world problems, right?!?!)

Here is my issue. I just found out that my kids (home from Uni and working for the summer) now both have unexpected time off from May 19th to 23rd.

I pulled together a quick flight and hotel pricing and am now looking at the Air Miles Universal tickets.

IF I were to order them today (I am in Ontario)....DO YOU THINK I WOULD GET THEM IN TIME?????


I am pretty sure there is no way to expedite tix from AM but I know from past orders they come super fast. I would hate to order them and then not get them.

ARRRGGGHHH what should I do, it saves us so much to order them from AM but saves us nothing and uses up miles if I order them and dont get them in time! (I wish they let locals pick up orders)


Any input is gladly appreciated!

Hi Hon
I know when I have ordered I have gotten them within 3-4 days BUT now that they expire by a certain date I am not sure I'd take the risk.
Hugs to you
Mel