Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Disney Addicted]

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.

YES! Your personal APP offer of Spend $10 in coke and get 2,000 points STACKED with the FLYER offer of Spend $20 in coke get 8,000 points. That's what happened.

 

[tinkerone]

YES! Your personal APP offer of Spend $10 in coke and get 2,000 points STACKED with the FLYER offer of Spend $20 in coke get 8,000 points. That's what happened.

Darn, I missed seeing the Flyer offer of spend $20. Had I seen that we would have had a heck of a lot more coke in the house so maybe that was a good thing. Thanks for letting me know.

 

[Disney Addicted]

I haven't been out grocery shopping yet, though I spent an hour or two today going through flyers and making a list. I'm not purchasing anything from Sobey's or Rexall's this week. I will get the 3 Philadelphia Cream Cheese with 20 air miles from Metro however. We are out of cream cheese. If I end up near Foodland I'll stop for the english muffins and 10 air miles.

Shoppers on Saturday for the Spend $50 get 20X. I should get at least 24,000 points.

RCS tomorrow. I'm purchasing 4 items we buy/need at $37 and getting 14,500 points.

Loblaws tomorrow for sure. Looks like I should be able to rack up the points here! I have a personal offer of spend $75 get 7,500 points PLUS 3 more personal offers of 200 points for every dollar in beef, poultry and pork. I need to go through my freezer and see what we need. $25 in chicken alone will give me 5,000 points. Plus I'll get the $10 Kellogg's cereal for 5,000 points, 1,000 points for 2 packages of bagels, $6 Christie crackers 3,000 points, $5 goldfish crackers 1,500 points. I'm completely out of Aylmer canned tomatoes as well (homemade spaghetti sauce) so $6 of those is 2,500 points. Chunky soup $2.49 is 1,000 points.

I didn't start using PC Optimum until May last year. I cashed out and put the money aside each time. My tracking shows I earned $380 from May to December.

LOL - we need a PC Optimum thread now as well.

 

[tinkerone]

Shoppers on Saturday for the Spend $50 get 20X. I should get at least 24,000 points.

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Does this mean that if I go to shoppers Saturday and spend $50 on anything then I will get the equivalent of $24 in points or is this including other offers?

 

[pigletto]

Does this mean that if I go to shoppers Saturday and spend $50 on anything then I will get the equivalent of $24 in points or is this including other offers?

That would be including other offers either from the flyer or personal offers from the app.

 

[tinkerone]

That would be including other offers either from the flyer or personal offers from the app.

If I have a personal offer to earn 1800 points on a product does that get the 20X's? Sorry for all the questions, hope they don't sound to dense but this whole thing is new to me and I'm very intrigued.

ETA-I just did the calculation on that and realize its a stupid question. Sorry. No way I'm getting $36 on a $10 purchase. Lol

 

[Disney Addicted]

Does this mean that if I go to shoppers Saturday and spend $50 on anything then I will get the equivalent of $24 in points or is this including other offers?

That would be including other offers either from the flyer or personal offers from the app.

If I have a personal offer to earn 1800 points on a product does that get the 20X's? Sorry for all the questions, hope they don't sound to dense but this whole thing is new to me and I'm very intrigued.

ETA-I just did the calculation on that and realize its a stupid question. Sorry. No way I'm getting $36 on a $10 purchase. Lol

grin - I wish they'd give us 20X on the bonus points! But no. It's 15 points for every dollar so 15 x $50 = 750 points x 20 = 15,000. Then I have flyer offers on top of that. ($10 garnier fructis hair products is 5,000, $8 Christie cookies is 4,000)

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Here's a question I should know the answer to:

Let's use the Delissio offer of $9 = 4,000 points. If the pizzas are $4.49 each and I buy 2, that's a total of $8.98. Will they round it up to $9, or do I need to buy 3 pizzas?

 

[ottawamom]

Here's a question I should know the answer to:

Let's use the Delissio offer of $9 = 4,000 points. If the pizzas are $4.49 each and I buy 2, that's a total of $8.98. Will they round it up to $9, or do I need to buy 3 pizzas?

I think you need 3. At least that's the way I read it. It's all about the fine details with these big promotions.

 

[Disney Addicted]

Here's a question I should know the answer to:

Let's use the Delissio offer of $9 = 4,000 points. If the pizzas are $4.49 each and I buy 2, that's a total of $8.98. Will they round it up to $9, or do I need to buy 3 pizzas?

I believe it’s rounded up to the nearest dollar when it ends with .98 or .99. I say this as Loblaws has rounded up for me in the past. Now if it was $8.96, I wonder if it would be rounded up to $9... that I’m not sure about.

If it was Shoppers Drug Mary, they do NOT round to the dollar.

 

[mort1331]

Ok so for shoppers 20x. If im spending 350 for say a switch. Am i getting like 30% back in points?

 

[Disney Addicted]

Ok so for shoppers 20x. If im spending 350 for say a switch. Am i getting like 30% back in points?

You should. 15 points per dollar x 350 = 5250 x 20 = 105,000.

 

[Donald - my hero]

LOL - we need a PC Optimum thread now as well.

I think i would need more than a dedicated thread to understand this!! I'm baffled by it

I enjoy following along with the discussion here though and marvel at how so many of you are able to keep the different stores straight

 

[tinkerone]

So here's an interesting question. I applied for the PC MC today and wasn't sure which one to order so I ordered the middle one. It states that you get 35 pc points per $1 at shoppers so with the 20X's it would look like this? 50 X 35 X 20 = 35000. Is that correct? Can't be.

 

[hdrolfe]

I used to really do Optimum points at Shoppers, was very good at it, got a Wii and so many free groceries. At one point milk and eggs were cheapest to get there. But once they combined programs, I can't be bothered! I don't shop at Loblaws or their brand of stores and really even only go to Shoppers once in awhile. Now I do Rexall. I think if there was a No Frills near by I would be more inclined to learn the program. My mom uses it a lot for free groceries. For now I'll just take the cheaper groceries at Food Basics and FreshCo, with some shops at Sobeys for good airmiles. I am liking Petro at the moment, they keep sending me bonuses if I get gas twice I get an extra 1000 points, which is a dollar. I can use those to get Disney giftcards, so it works for me! I am not sure where else to get the points other than the gas station though.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

I believe it’s rounded up to the nearest dollar when it ends with .98 or .99. I say this as Loblaws has rounded up for me in the past. Now if it was $8.96, I wonder if it would be rounded up to $9... that I’m not sure about.

If it was Shoppers Drug Mary, they do NOT round to the dollar.

Hmm, maybe I will call tomorrow and ask Customer Service before I go and do a big order.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

ugh...on the chat right now trying to 30 miles owed to me. I'm literally three days off the 6 weeks (end of promo), not sure how I miscalculated that. Must have used date that I made the purchase. Doh! Anyways, they won't just give them to me, I have to chat again! Like, come ON! It's like they think we love doing this on a weekly basis. If all this effort wasn't for vacation, I wouldn't bother sometimes...

 

[marchingstar]

I used to really do Optimum points at Shoppers, was very good at it, got a Wii and so many free groceries. At one point milk and eggs were cheapest to get there. But once they combined programs, I can't be bothered! I don't shop at Loblaws or their brand of stores and really even only go to Shoppers once in awhile. Now I do Rexall. I think if there was a No Frills near by I would be more inclined to learn the program. My mom uses it a lot for free groceries. For now I'll just take the cheaper groceries at Food Basics and FreshCo, with some shops at Sobeys for good airmiles. I am liking Petro at the moment, they keep sending me bonuses if I get gas twice I get an extra 1000 points, which is a dollar. I can use those to get Disney giftcards, so it works for me! I am not sure where else to get the points other than the gas station though.

i couldn’t have been bothered before, but i’m just too frustrated with my local safeway. the produce is abysmal. like, rotting on the shelf a lot of the time. it was
my habit to shop there so i tolerated it for a long time, but one day i felt like i just couldn’t stand it anymore. i still don’t really get the pc system very well, but i’m at least
giving it a shot (plus, i’ll still be at safeway every blue friday!)

 

[marchingstar]

Hmm, maybe I will call tomorrow and ask Customer Service before I go and do a big order.

if you have a chance, could you report back and let us know? i assumed i’d have to meet thresholds, but rounding would be awesome.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

i couldn’t have been bothered before, but i’m just too frustrated with my local safeway. the produce is abysmal. like, rotting on the shelf a lot of the time. it was
my habit to shop there so i tolerated it for a long time, but one day i felt like i just couldn’t stand it anymore.

This is me at my Sobeys store. I only buy my fruits and veggies from Superstore now. It's expensive enough without it being garbage.