Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[bababear_50]

Happy Birthday Jacqueline!
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Mel

 

[star72232]

I did Sobeys today - 524AM for $180 spend. I cashed in $80 worth of cash miles and used a GC to pay for the rest (nice, since that paid for the $100 in LCBO gift cards I bought).

I'm also planning on ordering my new phone either today or tomorrow. That should be 765AM. Not a huge return on a big purchase, but given that new Apple phones don't normally have any kind of sale, I'll take it!

 

[osully]

Tons of oatmeal at Sobeys Kanata Terry Fox. They have a sign up saying limit of 20 boxes per customer which I love! My husband said I could get him any flavour but maple brown sugar (he prefers Our Compliments) so I picked up Apple Cinnamon, Cinnamon Brown Sugar, Cookies & Cream, and Dino Egg!

I ended up doing the oatmeal deal and the Cinnabon + Raisin breads. That plus my regular stuff for $107 got me 255AM.

White Swan napkins were surprisingly on promo again! This time $2.49 / pkg + 15AM. Til January 2 according to the tag on the shelf.

 

[kerreyn]

Hubby decided that his birthday gift to me would be super personal and handed off his cold I feel like poop and trying to force myself to hit the mall for something that's not even related to AM (gasp, is that allowed in here?!?!)

Awww - Happy Birthday, and I hope you feel better soon!

 

[Disney Addicted]

Happy Birthday Jacqueline!!!! I sure hope you have a good weekend regardless of your cold!

I went to Sobey's today. Spent $157 pre-tax and earned 707 miles in total. 12 boxes of oatmeal (various flavours), 4 boxes of chicken, 5 packs of sausages, kraft salad dressings, VH sauces, raisin bread and I forget all what else. Plus 4 meat pies. Love, love Sobey's meat pies!

I've been out of the house almost all day. Now I'm off to Shell for Amazon and LCBO gift cards. Then I can complete my Amazon order.

 

[Aladora]

Happy birthday Jacqueline!!!

I just got back from the first Blue Friday at Thrifty Foods and did (IMHO) amazingly well!

Spent $100.22 pre-tax and walked away with 481AM with a 22% savings! Just before I left to go to the store, the mail arrived and in it was my Little Blue Book of savings. Inside were a couple of Thrifty coupons I could use including a spend $100, get 30AM. I wasn't sure if it would stack with the BF S$100, G150AM but I decided to give it a shot and it did.

We now have enough Fibre 1 bars to last until school is out for Christmas as well as a ton of oatmeal that I am going to bring into our office for snacks. I had been keeping a running total of my spending but something was on sale so I ended up $3.07 short so I grabbed the nearest thing which happened to be a bag of Swedish Berries for $3.29, close enough!

 

[hdrolfe]

Tons of oatmeal at Sobeys Kanata Terry Fox. They have a sign up saying limit of 20 boxes per customer which I love! My husband said I could get him any flavour but maple brown sugar (he prefers Our Compliments) so I picked up Apple Cinnamon, Cinnamon Brown Sugar, Cookies & Cream, and Dino Egg!

I ended up doing the oatmeal deal and the Cinnabon + Raisin breads. That plus my regular stuff for $107 got me 255AM.

White Swan napkins were surprisingly on promo again! This time $2.49 / pkg + 15AM. Til January 2 according to the tag on the shelf.

Sobeys Barrhaven had a limit of 4 (yes FOUR) boxes. Not that I wanted more but seriously? They didn't have the dinosaur egg ones so I had to get the regular cinnamon and brown sugar. They seemed to have lots but not tonnes left? Guess that's why they put a limit on it!

I got 150 bonus AM for doritos (plus one bag of ruffles for me to have tonight, kiddo is going to a sleepover! bets on whether he make it through the night?) and the one set of oatmeal. I spent a little more than I wanted to but I kept it close to my budget.

 

[Aladora]

Ok, all you airmilesshops.ca experts! Can someone give me an idea of how many I should earn for today’s orders?

I did a few and am really confused about bonus multipliers. All of these amounts are pre-tax.

Amazon:
$45.17
$70.99
$243.69

Wayfair:
$163.98

ThinkGeek:
$39.99

Thanks in advance!

 

[kitntrip]

Didn't realize I posted in the wrong thread, lol! I went to Sobeys, spent $204.xx and received 630 AM. I just didn't have the money to spend more than I needed because I've been buying like crazy the last few days to take advantage of sales and make sure it gets here in time with shipping. I also went to Shell to take advantage of the bonus 50 AM for 3 transactions of $10, so I bought 3 gift cards, paid separately, and earned 140 AM overall. I also received my Wayfair order several days early! The box is huge, and it turns into a castle!

 

[juniorbugman]

So I spent a bit more at Sobey's - spent $254 and got 641 air miles. Now my loaded spend $120 get 30 air miles stacked with the spend $150 get 150. I bought the oatmeal, chips, salad dressings, veggie dips, coffee pods and did I mention the cheetos. Good thing I am having a Grey Cup party on Sunday so I can share the munchies. My store received only 1 tray of the raisin bread so they are giving out rain checks. The Manager is going to have a chat with the bread delivery person and ask why they only got a little bit of bread.
Was going to try and hit both Sobeys and Foodland today but ended up going out for lunch with a bunch of retired friends from work. They live out of town so how could I miss that?

 

[AngelDisney]

I have decided to skip blue Friday! This week has been super busy and I need to rest tonight. Glad that most of you are taking good advantage of it. Happy AM Hunting!

 

[AngelDisney]

Happy Birthday Jacquline! I like this classic Donald! Hope you have a wonderful day!!

 

[ottawamom]

Sobeys Barrhaven had a limit of 4 (yes FOUR) boxes. Not that I wanted more but seriously? They didn't have the dinosaur egg ones so I had to get the regular cinnamon and brown sugar. They seemed to have lots but not tonnes left? Guess that's why they put a limit on it!

I got 150 bonus AM for doritos (plus one bag of ruffles for me to have tonight, kiddo is going to a sleepover! bets on whether he make it through the night?) and the one set of oatmeal. I spent a little more than I wanted to but I kept it close to my budget.

Sorry Heather, I may have contributed to that when I walked out with 12 boxes at 8am. But there was somebody in before me who got way more than I did (cashier was telling me about him).

 

[ottawamom]

Ok, all you airmilesshops.ca experts! Can someone give me an idea of how many I should earn for today’s orders?

I did a few and am really confused about bonus multipliers. All of these amounts are pre-tax.

Amazon:
$45.17
$70.99
$243.69

Wayfair:
$163.98

ThinkGeek:
$39.99

Thanks in advance!

Time for Airmiles math.
What you need:
1. what was the store multiplier (Amazon 5x)?
2. airmileshops multiplier (15X today)
3. what is the earn rate ie 1AM/$20 (Amazon) this # differs depending on vendor.

Amount spent before tax/shipping divided by earn rate (45.17/20=2.585 but it will be 2AM)
all other things being equal if there was not bonus you would earn 2AM Lets call this your base AM earned
the 5X multiplier means you earn 2x4 extra AM or 8AM. Total so far is 10AM (5x2) (2 base + 8)
the 15X multiplier means you earn 2x14 extra (you've already earned 1x) or 28AM Total earned is 28+10=38AM

Now the formula (store multiplier + Airmileshops multiplier -1) x base AM earned = AM earned per transaction. (5+15-1)x2=38

Hope this helps.

 

[hdrolfe]

Sorry Heather, I may have contributed to that when I walked out with 12 boxes at 8am. But there was somebody in before me who got way more than I did (cashier was telling me about him).

Honestly it's a good price for oatmeal! And a good thing to contribute to the food bank. And it was a good return in Airmiles for the purchase. I didn't want more than 4 any way but it was strange to me. Does make me wonder about the next Blue Friday or big AM deal though... I suspect there will be limitations placed by some stores.

 

[isabellea]

Bonne fête Jacqueline!!!

Happy Birthday!!!

 

[dancin Disney style]

I had decided to pass on Blue Friday....BUT....I was weak. I had to go for groceries (the fridge was literally bare...no joke) and it seemed that the car drove itself to Sobeys . The plan became only buying raisin bread and oatmeal then on to Superstore for my real groceries. Once I got up to about $70 I figured that it was only proper to proceed to the $100 level. Totally by accident I discovered that the seed bars DH takes in his lunch were included with the granola bar deal and then I found $1 coupons beside the PB deal. In the end I spent $105 and earned 406 miles.

Still working on my Wayfair order.

 

[dancin Disney style]

Almost forgot....
Happy birthday Jacqueline!!!

 

[roxysmum123]

So glad I found this thread/group - I have a goal to earn another 3000 airmiles before June so that I can use them on two universal tickets for myself and my sister next August. I'm halfway through Shop The Block and hope to knock that out of the park (with a couple extra ones for safety) and look forward to seeing how else I can really max out the AM opportunities. Maybe will be able to collect enough to do Universal during our Christmas trip

 

[AngelDisney]

I forgot that Agoda is an Airmiles Shop and booked 4 reservations for my trip in Japan this July. However, I am not sure if it works with the Agoda App. Every time I try to book something, the airmilesshop site would link me to the App. I am not sure if this would work. Anyone has any insight on this? I still have 3 hotels to book through Agoda. TIA!