Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[bababear_50]

Good shop today
Spend $190.00 (used a previous bought Sobeys GC).
Got 802 airmiles
65 *My offers Missing* but I called them and they are going to add the miles to my account sooooo...
867 total airmiles.
I would have gotten some of the bacon but all the Best before dates were June 2019.

Hugs
Mel

 

[mab2012]

I did go to Sobeys this morning, kind of reluctantly, and struggled to make it worthwhile. In the end I managed something like 273 miles on ~$104 pre-tax spend (don't have the receipt in front of me). Still not sure it was worth the time I spent talking myself into (or out of) buying certain items.

I couldn't bring myself to buy the big-miles items like granola bars and cereal. Even though those are things that we go through like wildfire, and even though they were on sale, they are still way, way more expensive than what I pay for the same stuff at Costco. We don't eat very much bacon, and never chicken wings.

I did buy some Betty Crocker stuff that I would not normally bring into my house, but my kids will be happy, and it's not so bad once in a while.

I also have enough dish soap to last a year or more (I think the price on that was fairly similar to what I would pay at Costco), and enough kitchen catchers to probably last the rest of our lives (we don't go through them very fast).

 

[Silvermist999]

I spent $129 and got 501 AM. I had so many issues though, first the cashier said she scanned the flyer coupon, but my 100 AM didn’t show up at all, so had that fixed at customer service, then went out to the car, noticed I didn’t get the AM for the 3 bottled Coke products, she had given one pack to me for free cause it scanned incorrectly, so guess that voided the AM offer. So had to go back in to get that fixed...a lot of work for these AMs but worth it, used up most of my $150 GC so all’s good.

 

[kerreyn]

Back from Blue Friday shopping. Spent $222.36 ($80 worth of granola bars and cereal for the food bank!), excl. tax and deposits, and earned 801 AM.
As usual, I deviated from my list - we're going to my SIL's for cinco de mayo on Sunday, so I picked up ingredients for home made salsa/pico de gallo and cowboy caviar, along with a couple bags of tortilla chips. Ole!

 

[spiffgirl101]

I spent $137 and got 548 airmiles. My 9 yr old was with me, so somehow I ended up with a few non airmiles related items in the cart. He does not understand the rules lol.

 

[Disney Addicted]

I spent $137 and got 548 airmiles. My 9 yr old was with me, so somehow I ended up with a few non airmiles related items in the cart. He does not understand the rules lol.

Oh ohh. You should see these grocery bags Donald found!!

 

[Donald - my hero]

Decided to spend the day in Toronto today because I actually paid attention to an ad that popped up in the app I'm using to learn Spanish. It was for Linen Chest, the Richmond St location ONLY buy anything and get a free gift. Bought pillow cases I need -600 thread count king sized for 5.99 - and got a pair of crystal candle holders (mother's day gift). On my way out I spied this bag that I think we all need for Blue Friday shopping trips

 

[juniorbugman]

Decided to spend the day in Toronto today because I actually paid attention to an ad that popped up in the app I'm using to learn Spanish. It was for Linen Chest, the Richmond St location ONLY buy anything and get a free gift. Bought pillow cases I need -600 thread count king sized for 5.99 - and got a pair of crystal candle holders (mother's day gift). On my way out I spied this bag that I think we all need for Blue Friday shopping trips

Did you buy the bag?

 

[elaine amj]

I jjst got back from Sobeys. Spent $119 incl tax and got 625 airmiles. Main reason I did this Blue Friday is because we are short 300 miles to get another 7 day flex Disney ticket. With Megamiles over, it could be another couple of months before we rack up the last 300 miles. Worried about price increases so want to just order it and get it squared away.

We decided to have a chicken wing party tonight haha. Even with 6 of us, I worried about being able to eat all the food I would need to buy to hit the spend $100, get $100. (we have three teens who all eat like birds. Last night I cooked delish ribs and they struggled to eat two apiece. Crazy, right?!) My solution? I invited two friends for dinner! Spent $50 for 80 chicken wings...yum!! We will have chicken wings and mashed potatoes. They will bring a salad and we will feast

Guess what I found out? Apparently if you ask for your wings and sauce separate, they have the gall to charge $1.99 for the sauce! The girl was apologetic but it recently became policy. DH was not amused! We ended up asking her to toss half the wings in sauce and leave the other half unsauced. She was so sweet she put a ton of sauce in so I will have plenty of sauce for the other half too.

I also bought a couple of boxes of wings for the future but was pretty disappointed - not a good deal at all. Only 10-11 small wings in each $6.99 box. Would have been better to pay $12.99 for 20 takeout wings (big and meaty) and freeze them at home. More airmiles for the same money too.

My haul of 625AM:
80 chicken wings...yum!! -200 AM
2 boxes of chicken wings - 50 AM
10 boxes granola bars - 100 AM
5 packs bacon - 100 AM
5 boxes mashed and scalloped potatoes - 50 AM
Spent $100 - 100 AM
+ some misc Air Miles

 

[montrealdisneylovers]

Took a drive from Montreal to Vankleek Hill (in Ontario), spent $127 and got 446 airmiles. We can never get that kind of return in Quebec! Brought a girlfriend along for the ride. She had to dust off her blue airmiles card. She ended up with 350 airmiles. I think she will be joining me again in the future!!

 

[hdrolfe]

I ended up going to Sobeys, they had all the stuff I wanted, spent $109 after taxes and got 345 AM plus another 50 I had to call for because my loaded offer didn't show up. So now we are loaded up with bacon, chips and a few other things. Oh, 4 pizzas too. Now I can relax for a nice weekend of hopefully warm weather!

 

[juniorbugman]

Spent $135 before tax and earned 576 air miles. Blue Friday deals - Granola bars, betty crocker potatoes and the hamburger helper, cokes (need for my car race party), bacon, chicken wings, hamburger/hot dog buns. Weirdly had some offer where I bought 1 hamburger helper I earned 30 air miles but I can't find it on my redeemed Sobeys offers so no idea where it came from. Also bought random other groceries that were required.

 

[mort1331]

So blue friday shoppjng herè.....oh wait...no sobeys at wdw golf. But had great weather and shot ok.
Glad everyone is having a good shopping day.

 

[bgula]

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

Not true. I've price-bridged over the past couple of years.

 

[tinkerone]

So blue friday shoppjng herè.....oh wait...no sobeys at wdw golf. But had great weather and shot ok.
Glad everyone is having a good shopping day.

Jealous....just sayin.

 

[osully]

Would like to just let everyone know who I might have made worried about Walmart getting rid of price matching... I heard about that from a co-worker as opposed to reading it for myself and it doesn't seem to be true in Canada! Just in the US.

You can even price match when you do the online grocery pick up. I got over $5 off my order this week from price matching - you just submit a form after you place your order with links to the flyers you are price matching! I matched bacon, iceberg, romaine, cream, even tampons!

Sorry to get off topic

 

[Disney Addicted]

I keep reading posts from people saying they called when their Sobey's app offers didn't work. WHO do you call? What number?

 

[bababear_50]

I keep reading posts from people saying they called when their Sobey's app offers didn't work. WHO do you call? What number?

Hi Hon
https://www.sobeys.com/en/myoffers/
When you go to my offers at the top of the page is a button *Help center*
click on it
I am missing Bonus miles from an offer redemption,what should I do?

If you are missing Bonus Miles from a purchase where you swiped your AIR MILES® Card at checkout, please call the My Offers Contact Centre at 1-844-896-3337 and a Customer Care Agent will be happy to assist you. The My Offers Contact Centre is open Monday – Sunday from 7:00 am – 10:00 pm EST.

I don't use the app on my phone I use my desktop.
Hope that helps
Hugs
Mel

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

Ended up going to Sobeys since I still had my gift card from the Mega Miles. Spent $117.78 and earned 325 miles. I got home and realized I was supposed to buy 2 of the chicken wings...oh well...at least I have dinner for tomorrow. Also, I was able to purchase a $50 Kobo gift card and pay with my Sobeys gift card.

 

[Donald - my hero]

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.

I'm glad you decided to jump in and join our little community! Sounds like you have a couple of really successful shopping trips, great way to get back into the game! Don't be shy, let us know how you're doing and don't be afraid to ask for help, we love to help each other out.