Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[ilovetotravel1977]

My monthly miles from BMO post on the 25th of each month. January I don't usually charge much to my card and tend to use Debit so in case I've over spent during December (likely). I'll be curious to see how many (not many) miles I've managed to earn this month LOL.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Time for flyer updates! First post all set to go and here's links not provided above by Mel

Very Fuzzy Rexall Ontario Flyer -- this will magically become clearer after midnight tomorrow
Urban Fresh Flyer
Sobey's Western Flyer
Sobey's Atlantic Flyer
Foodland Atlantic Flyer

 

[dancin Disney style]

Where do you see info on the promotion?

In the flyers....they are on smartcanucks on Tuesday’s.

 

[dancin Disney style]

okay, I'm looking at the superstore flyer for next week and I have a question. It says spend 10$ on gerber baby food items and earn 4000 points. I have 2 targeted offers that I can save and use next week, one for 200 bonus points on every 1$ of gerber food, the other for 400 points on every 2$ of gerber cereal. If I save the two offers, can I stack them all when the flyer starts tomorrow?

Yes. They will stack. I do it all the time.

 

[bababear_50]

Need to stock up on TP (Toilet Paper)
Giant Tiger is 8 double rolls $3.97 Charmin limit 3
Rexall is 8 double rolls $3.99 Cashmere limit 4
No bonus airmiles and no new interesting Load N Go,,I am not interested in a $10.00 Rexall coupon if I spend $30.00.... so I will probably go to Giant Tiger.

Good Buy at
Dollar General
M&M heart shape tin of chocolates (6 sealed packs inside each tin) $1.25 each.

Hugs
Mel

 

[ottawamom]

I hope the store near me has some of those. Perfect little something for Valentines Day!

 

[marchingstar]

thanks to everyone who helped me understand PC optimum points today! I went to shoppers for their bonus event and got 12 thousand points on a 53$ shop. no idea if that’s a good shop!

one thing i like though: the earnings sound huge!

 

[Silvermist999]

Wow, just checked my PC Optimum App and I’ve got tons of loaded offers to use starting tomorrow, on top of those in the new flyer. Including a threshold offer for RCSS, never seen this before. There’s going to be a lot of stacking too, lol.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

thanks to everyone who helped me understand PC optimum points today! I went to shoppers for their bonus event and got 12 thousand points on a 53$ shop. no idea if that’s a good shop!

one thing i like though: the earnings sound huge!

12,000 points is $12. $12 in air miles land is essentially 95 miles. I would NEVER get an air miles offer of spend $50, get 95 miles. They are more like spend $150, get 95 miles. So yes, the PC Optimum program is a better return on some of their promotions.

 

[dancin Disney style]

Wow, just checked my PC Optimum App and I’ve got tons of loaded offers to use starting tomorrow, on top of those in the new flyer. Including a threshold offer for RCSS, never seen this before. There’s going to be a lot of stacking too, lol.

I've got several of the same offers that are in the flyer. I will be curious to see if those actually stack. The ones that I was planning to get would end up giving me 10,000 points for $10. It seems to good to be true but we shall see.

ETA: The Kellogs offer would work out to 1400 points per dollar if my loaded offers stack with the instore. For sure I'm trying that one!

 

[kimbert]

strange because we I did mine last week they were able to do them in batches of 500am at a time. Could not do the whole2700 at once. but were able to do 500

Interesting! I wonder if it is different between provinces, or just stores, or if there are caps based on previous issues maybe in some locations?

Either way, I'm glad you got all those miles!

On a completely different topic, back to booking travel packages.... I got an email yesterday from Air Miles announcing their "brand new shiny partnership" with RedTag.ca ha ha, like I hadn't already been on pricing trips!

Of note, there is currently a promotion for booking by Feb. 17th if you'll be travelling before Aug. 31st:


On a bit of an annoying note however, I get an error when I try to sign out of the vacations.airmiles.ca site.... so I have been closing my browser and deleting my history, because I have been staying signed in, and I don't want to lose those 20,000+ AM!!!!!

 

[Silvermist999]

I've got several of the same offers that are in the flyer. I will be curious to see if those actually stack. The ones that I was planning to get would end up giving me 10,000 points for $10. It seems to good to be true but we shall see.

ETA: The Kellogs offer would work out to 1400 points per dollar if my loaded offers stack with the instore. For sure I'm trying that one!

All my offers stacked this morning, so amazing. I even included a $50 Disney gift card into my grocery shop, and redeemed enough points to cover it. I miscalculated a bit and could have redeemed $100 in points, but it was too late to go back and grab another gift card.

The flyer offers are one time use only unfortunately, so plan accordingly, there’s no going back later for more.

 

[Donald - my hero]

I'm going to have to hunt down a flyer for Shoppers & Zehrs and then do some serious studying ... like some others here I've never really done much with this, my little brain just gets confused with the details. We rarely shop at either store so it would mean multiple stops on grocery day and hubby only allots 2-ish hours to that a week, 1 for coffee to make the list and then however much time we spend in the grocery store.

Rexall is still chugging along with their "REdiscover Rexall" promo and starting Monday you can use this coupon to get $5.00 off a transaction of $25 or more -- one transaction per day per customer but not sure how they'd know if you went to a different store. I'm also not sure if it will stack/combine with any other coupons that might appear for next week so this is a YMMV thing
Save $5.00 when you spend $25 Valid Mon Jan 28th - Thur Jan 31st

 

[tinkerone]

Sorry about the Optimum questions but I have one more. One of my offers is for PC Burgers, 1800 points for each $9 spend. Is that only usable at Loblaws or is it also good at shoppers? Shoppers has them on sale starting Sunday so wondering if I just wait.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Sorry about the Optimum questions but I have one more. One of my offers is for PC Burgers, 1800 points for each $9 spend. Is that only usable at Loblaws or is it also good at shoppers? Shoppers has them on sale starting Sunday so wondering if I just wait.

OOoooh a question about this programme that i CAN answer If you look at the details of the offers it will specify where it is good for and in the case of the PC products they're good anywhere they're for sale :

For the offers that are only good at Shoppers it looks like this

 

[tinkerone]

Thank you @Donald-myhero , I made a quick run to Loblaws after your post and since the burgers are $5 more per package I have decided to wait on them till the offer at Shoppers goes into effect on Saturday. I was happy with my shop though. I spent $65 and received 30,200 points, which I believe amounts to just over $30. Not bad! I also applied for one of their credit cards and that is giving me another 75,000 points so another $75. All in all a good day .
I must say though, I get confused by how their points work. I had an offer for 2000 points on every $10 spend, I bought 5 cases of coke @$6.35 so total of $31.75 for 6000 points, right? Well on the receipt there is Coke points of 6000 plus another coke points of 8000. What the 8000 points are for I haven't a clue. Same thing happened to me two weeks ago when I purchased something from my offers and received more than twice as many points on that as well. Airmiles are so much easier to figure out!
Happy hunting to all and again, thanks Donald.

ETA-Just looked closer at my receipt and I actually received 35,200 points so just over $35 dollars.....this gets better and better.

 

[CanadianKrista]

Wait, so the loaded points days offers on the app and the flyer offers for the same stuff stacked? Like the poptarts/eggos one I have a loaded points day offer for the 5000/$10, and the same is in the flyer? or did you have a separate targetted offer for some stuff?

 

[marchingstar]

Wait, so the loaded points days offers on the app and the flyer offers for the same stuff stacked? Like the poptarts/eggos one I have a loaded points day offer for the 5000/$10, and the same is in the flyer? or did you have a separate targetted offer for some stuff?

i’ve only been at this for a day so i might be wrong. i think that the app shows you the big offers from the flyers (it says “points days” over the image) and the personalized offers. the other way to see personalized offers is that they can be saved for next week.

so my guess is that the “points days” offers will only apply once, but could stack with personalized offers. but i’m sure someone more knowledgeable can steer me in the right direction if i’m misunderstanding.

 

[tinkerone]

Wait, so the loaded points days offers on the app and the flyer offers for the same stuff stacked? Like the poptarts/eggos one I have a loaded points day offer for the 5000/$10, and the same is in the flyer? or did you have a separate targetted offer for some stuff?

i’ve only been at this for a day so i might be wrong. i think that the app shows you the big offers from the flyers (it says “points days” over the image) and the personalized offers. the other way to see personalized offers is that they can be saved for next week.

so my guess is that the “points days” offers will only apply once, but could stack with personalized offers. but i’m sure someone more knowledgeable can steer me in the right direction if i’m misunderstanding.

This is the way it worked for me. Only got the points for the 'points days' once even though they show in my offers as well as in the flyer.

 

[CanadianKrista]

This is the way it worked for me. Only got the points for the 'points days' once even though they show in my offers as well as in the flyer.

Okay, that makes more sense, otherwise all that stuff would be basically free Still some great deals in there, I'll be heading to Loblaws this week. We have the M/C already and have lots of points, but I'm planning to convert them to disney gift cards eventually....although we have been known to use them in Decembers for groceries to offset Christmas a bit.