Airmiles Armchair Chatter

I have so many questions but I'll start with a few:

1. I haven't seen any of these GC deals you all speak of. How do you find out about these?

2. What are good emails to sign up to receive coupons and deals and such?

3. Does anyone here eat organic/non-processed foods and barely use drugstore items? I'm trying to see how I can stock up on points, I'm having issues because it seems like most of the items with AM are items I don't purchase or rarely purchase.
 
Donald - my hero said:
Quick report while hubby's cooking dinner .... did another Rexall run and managed another 166 AM (snagged some vitamins) and then the fun began .... we drove about 40 minutes to the sketchiest Foodland EVER (has a small Beer & LCBO inside it even :P ) and asked the sweet girl if we could buy a gift-card with a gift card. She shrugged and said "don't know why not" GREAT, i grabbed 3 off the shelf (didn't want to press my luck) and the first swap worked fine and then the drama began ... She forgot to swipe the AM card for the second purchase so had to call the manager to bring the key to unlock the terminal to add them to the sale. (at this point hubby slinks to the door to escape) It took easily another 30 minutes to rectify the situation .. entire POS system crashed, her terminal locked her out and we were all standing there staring at multiple slips of paper because we had 3 gift cards showing zero balance and none of them actually activated ... They ended up refunding to our Mastercard and starting over --- sold us a new card.

End result? We paid $150.00, got one card and THREE of the 200 AM bonus ... 2 very guilty, red-faces 50-ish people apologizing profusely and promising never to come back again.How did they react? They thanked us repeatedly for "being so patient and understanding" WHAT??? We just screwed up your day royally!! SO can it be done? Yeah i guess so but was it worth it? Ain't no way in that hot place I'll ever risk trying again --- i almost needed new undies :P
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:rotfl:Too funny!!

My DH is like yours. He would be in the parking lot waiting for me. He loves the results of my efforts as long as everything goes according to plan. If I start questioning the cashier and pointing out missed miles he slinks away:rotfl:
 
shaynar said:
I have so many questions but I'll start with a few:

1. I haven't seen any of these GC deals you all speak of. How do you find out about these?

2. What are good emails to sign up to receive coupons and deals and such?

3. Does anyone here eat organic/non-processed foods and barely use drugstore items? I'm trying to see how I can stock up on points, I'm having issues because it seems like most of the items with AM are items I don't purchase or rarely purchase.
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Hi and Welcome
Where do you shop for your food?
The GC deals are usually at food stores like Metro (well they used to be) ,Sobeys and Foodland and sometimes Pharmacy Rexall..
You can just look up their weekly flyers and see which products have airmiles associated with them.

Occasionally
Sobeys and other grocery stores and sometimes Rexall will offer if you buy a certain gift card such as I-tunes-,,,,,Marks Work Wearhouse ,,, Canadian Tire,,,etc..you will also get a certain amount of bonus airmiles.Current one is 60 airmiles with the purchase of a $50.00 Golf Town Gift Card at Sobeys.

Rexall
http://www.rexall.ca/eflyer

Metro
http://www.metro.ca/flyer/index.en.html

Sobeys
http://www.sobeys.com/en/flyer/?f=888

Look under Baby and Kids and toy section
Carter/OshKosh clothing
Sears
Babies are us
Disney shopping.com
Hudson Bay
Lego shop
Children's Place

Also go onto airmiles web site and look up their sponsors,,
it will list weather you get the airmiles in store or if you have to shop online to get them.
Link here
https://www.airmiles.ca/arrow/SponsorDirectory

Gas
Shell

For organic products I find Sobeys has quite a few--however not always associated with airmile bonus points.

The gift card deal that everyone is currently speaking of is if you purchase $150 dollar Gift card at Foodland right now you get 200 bonus airmiles. Limited to 5 purchases. So if someone bought 5 of these they would be spending $750.00 and getting 1000 bonus airmiles. You can buy any amount between 1-5 gift cards.
You then can use these Gift Cards at the following stores for your groceries:
http://ontario.foodland.ca/gift-cards/
Sobeys
Foodland
Fresh Co
Price Chopper


You could also contact airmiles and express your interest in collecting and perhaps they will have some suggestions.

Hugs Mel
 
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shaynar said:
I have so many questions but I'll start with a few:

1. I haven't seen any of these GC deals you all speak of. How do you find out about these?

2. What are good emails to sign up to receive coupons and deals and such?

3. Does anyone here eat organic/non-processed foods and barely use drugstore items? I'm trying to see how I can stock up on points, I'm having issues because it seems like most of the items with AM are items I don't purchase or rarely purchase.
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Quite a few of us here on this thread live in Ontario so a lot of the info is for Ontario stores. Which part of the country do you live in?

1. The GC deal this week is at Foodland. You can pick them up there and then use them to shop in any of the Sobey's family of stores. Some of these stores have a good organic section. Most of us here on Dis look at the flyers online on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Sobey's also has GC on this week for Golftown (purchase $50 GC get 60AM) they also have other GC deals from time to time

2. Sign up for Sobey's and Rexall emails also sign up for email notifications from AM. If you're in Ontario you can sign up for the LCBO newletter and get 30AM for your trouble.

3. Rexall is a great store for collecting AM. Check one out you may be surprised by what they have there that you can actually use (toilet paper, paper towels,cleaning supplies, Halloween treats to hand out, gifts for the teachers). If you sign up for the Sobey's newsletter you will get weekly coupons based on your shopping habits (organic shopping = organic coupons).

Getting the big AM numbers does take work but it can be worth it.
 
Thank you both for getting back to me.

I checked out your sober's flyer and it's completely different than the one that my store puts out! Completely. I live in the GTA, but i live near a "specialty" store, so most of "my" flyer is targeted and has little about AM. I've never seen the GC promotions before.

I just signed up for the LCBO, Sobeys and Recall emails. So hopefully that will put me a bit ahead of the game!
 
shaynar, if you want to shop and get significant AM you may find that you have to travel a bit to do so.

I drive 15km each way to get to the Sobey's I shop at each week. Some think I'm a little nuts when there are other stores close by to where I live. For me it's worth the drive to get the AM and I think of it as an outing away from my usual haunts. I've also been known to do the occasional road trip out into the country to shop at Foodland (gift card week for instance).

There is a Sobeys Urban Fresh (different flyer from Sobey's) not too far away but they don't have the same AM specials as the regular Sobey's. Ultimately you will do what works for you. We just supply you with the options available to collect AM.
 


bababear_50 said:
I think I made a mistake and shopped a little too soon after saving my offers at Sobeys (email I get each friday),,I came home and checked my receipt,,,, I didn't get the targets saved offer points on my receipt. Has anyone ever experienced this,,it's not alot of airmiles ....just 34. But YES I want them,,lol.
Hugs Mel

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I saved them via Foodland site under saved offers but when I just logged on to sobeys via there flyer it shows they were not saved?????????????????????????????
Now I'm lost.
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Did those AM ever come through. Just thought I'd let you know that I was just on the Foodland site(never signed up for their bonuses). Put my AM # into their special offers and all my targeted coupons for Sobey's showed up on screen. I think the two are linked (Sobey's and Foodland, special offers). If your targeted offers didn't show up on your account you may have a case for getting them. Just a thought.
 
shaynar said:
I have so many questions but I'll start with a few:

1. I haven't seen any of these GC deals you all speak of. How do you find out about these?

2. What are good emails to sign up to receive coupons and deals and such?

3. Does anyone here eat organic/non-processed foods and barely use drugstore items? I'm trying to see how I can stock up on points, I'm having issues because it seems like most of the items with AM are items I don't purchase or rarely purchase.
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HI! Welcome aboard the Airmiles train, you're in for quite the ride if you're willing to put a bit of effort in to it!!

1) all the answers provided above!
2) Make sure you go into your Airmiles profile and check the box just under your email address to opt in for the targeted offers. reads like this
Yes, I would like to receive email offers and information from the AIR MILES® Reward Program and its Sponsors. You can change your mind at any time

Also make sure you check your junk mail because this will force direct emails from various stores (Rexall, Sobeys and Metro and on occasion LCBO) and at times they slip into my junk mail (oops) You can check on the Rexall site for coupons that are from manufacturers (lots of Proctor and Gamble products) that are good at any store not just Rexall. Just scroll through and select the ones you want to use and print them off -- you can use the multiple times until they expire (not in the same sale) You can look at upcoming flyers on Saveland.ca (i'm sure there are other sites as well) just be sure you choose the right region!

3) Due to dietary restrictions hubby and I don't eat many processed foods at all (just back from Metro and spent over $90.00 and only processed item was a box of cereal that will last over a month!) --- mainly fresh meats, veggies & fruits, dairy products and such. Both Metro and Sobeys have a Natural Food section (think that's what they call it??) as well that we sometimes grab a few items from. We don't buy much organic per-say due to the cost but i know they both have it!

As far as Rexall ... like @ottawamom mentioned is a huge store that carries much more than just your typical pharmacy items --- beauty products, cleaning products, baby items (not sure if you're done with diapers yet but you have a 2 yr old!), first aid supplies (who doesn't need bandages!), greeting cards (recently they had spend $15.00 get 30 Airmiles) and wrapping supplies, school supplies, pet food ... they also have a large wellness section with snacks that are organic i noticed yesterday on my 2nd shop for $50.00 (GANG, THOSE HAVE POSTED ALREADY!!!) So you might be able to hit that up.

There are almost always deals at Rexall on the weekend for spend $x and get X Airmiles but ALWAYS i get a coupon that is good for Monday- Thursday that is better (except for this weekend's deal which is HUGE) and i will post the link here that you can use and either print or have on your mobile device. You can split your sales into multiple sales and use that coupon each time to get the bonus. I get targeted bonus coupons that let me double up on rewards from them as well!

I understand about the Sobey's of which you speak, we've been to the one in Queen's Quay and it is bizzarre to say the least! I've also hit up a couple of Rexall's in the PATH and while they weren't overly happy with my couponing, they sighed loudly and let me have my fun :P

 
ottawamom said:
I guess there's hope then. AM on milk! we want AM on milk!pixiedust:
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Well this is a bit late to respond (but thanks the search feature that actually works since they updated the site last year i was able to find out who asked!)
We hit up Metro this morning (it's still the closest and where we get most of our fresh food -- don't trust meat for over 40 minutes even in a cooler with ice) and we snagged bagged milk -- now it was $7.99 since it was Naturel but it was Lactose Free and it cost less than the 2 1L containers we normally get for hubby AND we got 10 AM for that! So there is hope.
 
ottawamom said:
Did those AM ever come through. Just thought I'd let you know that I was just on the Foodland site(never signed up for their bonuses). Put my AM # into their special offers and all my targeted coupons for Sobey's showed up on screen. I think the two are linked (Sobey's and Foodland, special offers). If your targeted offers didn't show up on your account you may have a case for getting them. Just a thought.
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Hi Hon
I contacted airmiles and got the points credited to my account,,it was a Glitch in the system...
Yes Foodland and Sobeys saved offers seem to be connected.
Thanks for asking
Hugs Mel
 
Canadian Harmony said:
Oh yes I did!! First thing I noticed when I dropped off the car! Lol
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Depending on the location, you might be able to go back in ansd give them this coupon for another 25AM. You can always say that you had it with you but forgot to give it to them. If you do it before the end of the month, before they finalize the month and send in the Airmiles report, they might be able to add it to your workorder.

Craftsman Collision

(I worked at CC as a bookkeeper for 2 1/2 years)
 
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Hey my fellow hunters, i decided to edit the title and the first post of this thread so we can perhaps help out some new hunters. Give it a peek and let me know if i should fix it up ??

As an added treat here's the link to this week's Rexall coupon for those who missed the weekend birthday bash shopping bonus. Spend $40.00 get 60 Airmiles
http://images.rexall.ca/newsletter/2016/Sept26/SEP26-COUPON-4060-ONMB.pdf
 
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