Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[osully]

My DD is going to love all the bacon. We almost never buy real bacon (if anything, it is turkey bacon) and now I am planning bacon AND chicken wings?!

Eek - that reminds me I still have a box of frozen buffalo chicken wings in the freezer from last Blue Friday - They are no good on our current diet since they are breaded but kept them just in case. I had tried making the honey garlic ones and those turned out AWFUL...

 

[isabellea]

Thank you, I just didn't go far enough after selecting the 7 day base ticket...my guess is that the 7 day base flex ticket is based on the most expensive time to visit WDW (aka Christmas). I think that if you get the 7 day base flex ticket from AM and use it your first day, and then upgrade to an AP (which is what we are going to do), you should get the price of $627.29. That makes the AP even more affordable...

The 7 day WDW base flex ticket = 6400 AM = 6400/95*$10=$673.68 CDN

WDW stopped bridging prices a little while ago. They know how much AM or UT paid for them and that’s the value you get at the upgrade, whether you used it or not before upgrading. If you’re very lucky you might get sone pixie dust and get the gate price but I wouldn’t plan on it when budgeting.

 

[osully]

As much as I could stand to do the bacon offer at Sobeys I am too concerned that they won't have any by the time I get there. I ended up doing a full Walmart order instead and price-matching Schneiders bacon for $3.00 a pack from No Frills.

I heard Walmart is ending the price-matching soon though

Speaking of bacon, I picked up a pack of Olymel Maple Bacon for $1.49 at Metro yesterday. It's best before date is TODAY so we will be having lettuce wrap turkey & bacon sandwiches for dinner.

 

[pigletto]

Ok Blue Friday plan is in place and Dh is stopping in before work. Fingers crossed that it’s a smooth process. Good luck today everyone.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Thank you @Donald-my hero. I think I understand now. I went to the get rewards tab and the Foodland one was showing which I loaded on my card. Upon looking closer, it has the same code as the flyer. The “loaded offer” you guys are talking about are offers you receive by email. I have seen some in the past. I didn’t get any this time around

It's NOT an offer that comes from email but from their website or app. They're called My Offers, go to this website to set your account up to get them.

Sobey's Offers

 

[montrealdisneylovers]

Thank you again @Donald - my hero. How do I get them in the future? Do I always have to log into that website?

 

[Donald - my hero]

Thank you again @Donald - my hero. How do I get them in the future? Do I always have to log into that website?

Yes, I get an email to remind me to do it, but I've usually already done it I think they also have an app you could use but I don't think there's any difference. Metro also has this kind of arrangement, the link is in the first post if you want to check that out as well.

 

[elaine amj]

WDW stopped bridging prices a little while ago. They know how much AM or UT paid for them and that’s the value you get at the upgrade, whether you used it or not before upgrading. If you’re very lucky you might get sone pixie dust and get the gate price but I wouldn’t plan on it when budgeting.

I thought they don't price bridge if you buy directly from them but do price bridge if you buy from a discounter?

 

[Silvermist999]

I heard Walmart is ending the price-matching soon though

Noooo....say it isn’t true...that is about the main if not only reason I do a lot of my grocery shopping at Walmart. I guess RCSS will be soon to follow. It was good while it lasted...

 

[isabellea]

I thought they don't price bridge if you buy directly from them but do price bridge if you buy from a discounter?

My understanding is that they stopped bridging maybe 2 years ago even for discounter tickets.

 

[CanadianKrista]

Blue Friday success for me - first time I haven't had any issues getting what was on my list. Terry Fox Sobeys had lots of granola bars on the shelf, I got 20 boxes and barely made a dent. Kids eat them as afterschool snacks, so stocking up works for us. We're having the fresh wings for dinner, and then a bunch of other stuff I got too - some cinnamon buns to share at work, pogos, yogurt tubes, some stuff on my My Offers.....all in, spent $137 (including 2 bags of ice for my cooler to keep stuff cold while I am at work - the only thing on my receipt with 0 AM), got 589 airmiles. I'm happy with that.

 

[marchingstar]

Yes, I get an email to remind me to do it, but I've usually already done it I think they also have an app you could use but I don't think there's any difference. Metro also has this kind of arrangement, the link is in the first post if you want to check that out as well.

if the app is like safeway’s, there’s a slight benefit. through the website, you have to click each offer to add it to your card. in the app, you click “my offers” and get a message that they’ve all been loaded. it’s just a bit quicker.

 

[Etch]

So I've been an on again/off again air miles collector for about 30 years. Have used it for a few flights and other rewards but didn't put a whole lot of effort into collecting the points. I check in on the Canadian thread pretty regularly. I always see the air miles thread and think "I really should get back on that". I usually shop at Zehr's (closer) but it has been going down hill the last few years and I wanted to try Sobey's anyway.
So Air Miles physically mailed me some decent bonus coupons and I downloaded the Sobey's app the other day for offers. Then I finally figured out what the heck "Blue Friday" is!
I did a large shop yesterday and then returned today specifically for the Blue Friday deals. We're a family of 4 with two boys (11,7) so I easily hit the total amount targets for the bonus mile. I also paid with my Air Miles Amex.

I haven't totaled it exactly but I figure I easily cleared 1000 miles all with buying stuff I would have bought anyway. Of course some of the items I bought more than normal but nothing that I couldn't freeze or wouldn't keep. The last time I paid attention to collecting you could never dream of pulling in this many miles. Total game changer for me.

So thank you to everyone on here for the great information. I'll follow along and add any info when I can.

Oh, and I did actually prefer the Sobeys to my regular Zehrs.

 

[Donald - my hero]

if the app is like safeway’s, there’s a slight benefit. through the website, you have to click each offer to add it to your card. in the app, you click “my offers” and get a message that they’ve all been loaded. it’s just a bit quicker.

If I click thru the link in my email they all load, it's only when I'm anxious to see what I've got that I need to do each offer

 

[Disney Addicted]

I heard Walmart is ending the price-matching soon though

Well if that's true then that ends my shopping at Walmart. I've already slowed down there because of the mega amount of self-checkouts they put in. Actually, I have only shopped at my Walmart location twice since then. I refuse to use those.

 

[Disney Addicted]

I spent $102 pre-tax (even!) and walked out with 561 air miles today. So happy!
100 miles = 10 quaker bars
100 miles = 5 bacon
100 miles = 5 cereals
100 miles = 4 boxes of wings (2 boxes = 50 miles)
100 miles = spend $100 get 100 miles coupon
50 miles = 5 boxes scallop potatoes
6 miles = 2 english muffins
5 miles = base miles

I went to the Whitby location with a friend. We both had issues with the Quaker bars and I had an issue with the cereal. There was not much of a selection for the Quaker bars I found and they were in at least 3 different spots, not just the shelf. One of the Quaker Chewy bars rang in at $2.99 and didn't count as 1 of my 10. CS fixed it. They refunded the .99 plus tax and manually added 100 miles.

As for the cereal, the Lucky Charms was labelled on the shelf at $3.99 and indicated it would work for the 5 boxes = 100 miles. But it rang up at $5.49 on the receipt and didn't count. So CS refunded the $5.49; gave me the cereal for free; and manually added the 100 miles.

I wasn't expecting the 6 miles for english muffins. That was nice.

Actually, now we are both headed back. I have no other issues with my receipt, but my friend just realized the Cashier did not scan the Spend $100 get 100 miles on her shopping. She did for me and Barb was right behind me!

 

[Debbie]

I didn't find the Foodland deals that enticing, so I went in with an "I'll get what I need, and not worry about hitting the $100 level" attitude. Well, $203 later, I was checking out. Considering that I got a few things NOT on the list (Becel, yogurt, produce, etc), and I didn't bother with several Blue Friday deals, I was pleased to score 579 airmiles. I used up my Airmiles cash redemption stash, finished off the Sobey's gift card bought during the last promotion, and paid $13.50 for the groceries. I'll take that as a win!

 

[pigletto]

I spent $122.01 and earned 666 airmiles. I also used gift cards from Mega Miles to pay so there was a 10% savings on the overall cost from those. Not too shabby. I do daycare before and after school and the bars are great for a quick after school snack with some fruit or veggies. A little more sugar than I would normally prefer , but I’ll use once or twice a week and they last a long time. I bought 30 boxes.

 

[ottawamom]

I'm enjoying reading about everyone successes with Blue Friday. Best thing I did today was get extra legroom seats on my return flight without having to pay for them.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

I wanna run out and score some of those deals...but we got hit with a nice big dump of snow!!!! Then I looked at my Visa total ( which we pay off every month ) and I think I better NOT spend anymore money. With the last minute things for the trip/wedding...and then Son's graduation not even two weeks after we get back...we had grad cap and gown pictures, tickets for the evening exercises for everyone, groceries, a few last minute items for the wedding...sigh...it's higher than I want it to be. Oh well....May will be a low spend month except for a couple of meals grad weekend. So I better not go stock pile a few things. Hopefully I'll be able to do the next one