Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[ttaylorcan]

i Just checked the Metro site to see what my targeted coupons will be and was surprised to see that the flyer actually works on the site now -- i can see the full thing and i can narrow it down to see just the AM bonus offers. Interestingly the bonus spend whatever amount is showing differently there ... straight miles not multipliers, guess we'll have to wait and see how it actually plays out when we hit the till!
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I'm so sorry that a bunch of you are having trouble with the Shop the Block offers. I'm REALLY glad we lucked out and found the cheese at *our* Foodland since it's about 45 minutes each direction and hubby didn't want to go to begin with, he would not have been a happy camper to get there and find no cheese He made my favourite food for my birthday dinner tonight with that BTW Mac & Cheese, mighty good

I believe what you have posted is correct Donald, what I posted previously was from clicking on details, and history has proven that they don't always get these things right.

 

[pigletto]

Guess I'll be doing this in the morning as well. Between these coupons with Airmiles and a Costco.ca order that keeps going missing I'm kind of fed up with Customer Service types these days.

Has anyone out there had the Sobey's cheese coupon get picked up correctly on their receipt?

Well I did for the Shop the Block offer, just not for the instore offer. I kind of assumed I couldn't get both anyway. I printed the coupon and brought it in and it was scanned.

 

[AngelDisney]

i Just checked the Metro site to see what my targeted coupons will be and was surprised to see that the flyer actually works on the site now -- i can see the full thing and i can narrow it down to see just the AM bonus offers. Interestingly the bonus spend whatever amount is showing differently there ... straight miles not multipliers, guess we'll have to wait and see how it actually plays out when we hit the till!
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I'm so sorry that a bunch of you are having trouble with the Shop the Block offers. I'm REALLY glad we lucked out and found the cheese at *our* Foodland since it's about 45 minutes each direction and hubby didn't want to go to begin with, he would not have been a happy camper to get there and find no cheese He made my favourite food for my birthday dinner tonight with that BTW Mac & Cheese, mighty good

 

[ottawamom]

Belated Happy Birthday Donald my hero.

Just had a look at the Foodland and Sobey's flyers. I've got to say I am a little disappointed. Nothing at all like the sales we had last year at this time (Black Friday). Smuckers jam $3.99 (1) get 10AM and the avocados and tabasco sauce 20AM might be it for me. I will make some chocolate avocado brownies before I abandon my family and head south. Maybe they will have more in-store AM deals.

 

[bababear_50]

Reached my goal and ordered my 2 day pass for Universal for Christmas 2017/18 next year.
YEAH!!
Hugs Mel

 

[momof2gr8kids]

Belated Happy Birthday Donald my hero.

Just had a look at the Foodland and Sobey's flyers. I've got to say I am a little disappointed. Nothing at all like the sales we had last year at this time (Black Friday). Smuckers jam $3.99 (1) get 10AM and the avocados and tabasco sauce 20AM might be it for me. I will make some chocolate avocado brownies before I abandon my family and head south. Maybe they will have more in-store AM deals.

Yeah we don't have a ton of stuff either at Safeway - some frozen pizzas and cheese and pop which I can get. But some of the other bonus items aren't a good sale price, so I'm not buying just for the sake of am.

 

[ottawamom]

i Just checked the Metro site to see what my targeted coupons will be and was surprised to see that the flyer actually works on the site now -- i can see the full thing and i can narrow it down to see just the AM bonus offers. Interestingly the bonus spend whatever amount is showing differently there ... straight miles not multipliers, guess we'll have to wait and see how it actually plays out when we hit the till!
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So I cut and pasted the above directly from Metro's website in the detail section, however I'm a little confused as the promo on the cover of the flyer is as follows:

15 am wus $30
30 am wus $50
60 am wus $100

When you click on details, it says the first post above which I believe is incorrect. Sorry for the confusion.

Unfortunately we won't know how it's going to play out for a week or so as these are AM which do not show up on your receipt. I just got back from Metro and the flyer in the store is the one with the multiplier version but the website version is the 60AM wus $100 version so we'll have to wait a little longer to see how this one is going to go.

edit to add: Just got an email from Metro. It looks as if it will be the Multiplier option that will be used for the bonus this week. When I click on the link in the email it takes me to the store online flyer and that one show the Multiplier mentioned above.

 

[pigletto]

Sobey's has just had way fewer offers overall for weeks now. It seems to me they are scaling way back on the airmiles offers which is disappointing.
I will be going in for the Google Play card (50 airmiles) and that's it.
Rexall will be the winner this week with the two shop the block coupons. It looks like between those two shops I will come away with about 180 airmiles. I am collecting slower than I had hoped, but I'm still almost at our second 5 day ticket so I can't complain .
Only 266 miles to go!

 

[pigletto]

Belated Happy Birthday Donald my hero.

Just had a look at the Foodland and Sobey's flyers. I've got to say I am a little disappointed. Nothing at all like the sales we had last year at this time (Black Friday). Smuckers jam $3.99 (1) get 10AM and the avocados and tabasco sauce 20AM might be it for me. I will make some chocolate avocado brownies before I abandon my family and head south. Maybe they will have more in-store AM deals.

Just wanted to take a quick second to wish you a fabulous trip and safe travels! This is my absolute favourite season to visit Disney. The parks are so pretty with all of the Christmas decorations. You'll have a wonderful time .

And Happy Belated Birthday Donald-myhero. I hope you had a great day!

 

[ottawamom]

Sobey's has just had way fewer offers overall for weeks now. It seems to me they are scaling way back on the airmiles offers which is disappointing.
I will be going in for the Google Play card (50 airmiles) and that's it.
Rexall will be the winner this week with the two shop the block coupons. It looks like between those two shops I will come away with about 180 airmiles. I am collecting slower than I had hoped, but I'm still almost at our second 5 day ticket so I can't complain .
Only 266 miles to go!

Which Shop the Block coupons are you using at Rexall? The one for the Rose and Robin things isn't valid until Dec 2. (Dec 2-Dec 8). I don't want to miss out on a coupon I hadn't noticed.

 

[mab2012]

I'm still trying to completely work it out. This is what I've seen so far. I shopped at Rexall on Sunday. Changed from Dream (100%) to Cash(100%) Sunday evening. This changed my preference at 3:00am (early Monday). My AM posted from my Rexall purchase on Monday as Dream Miles. I believe it is your preference on the transaction day (day you make your purchase) that dictates which "pool" your AM are deposited into.

Again, I have had experience with only one transaction posting but I should be able to confirm more when my Metro AM post tomorrow (earned last week when my preference was 100% Dream, my account is currently set to Cash 100%). I will post more when it goes through.

More evidence to support this (sorry if it's already been put to bed - I'm a couple of pages behind): My Sobeys miles, earned on the weekend but posted yesterday, posted as CASH miles even though I changed my preference back to dream late on Sunday. So yes, it looks like transaction date is the one that matters, and now I have way more cash miles than I meant to accumulate, but that's a First World Problem if ever I've heard one!

 

[Donald - my hero]

REXALL!!!! Heads up to those of you who are planning on using the Shop the Block coupon this weekend for Spend $50.00 on fragrance & makeup and get 100 AM ...the flyer has THIS!!

I read the fine print on both coupons and neither says that you can't combine it with another so if you spend the $50.00 you *should * rack up 200 AM. Think stockings everyone, don't pass this up because you don't need make up or perfumey-stuff because it includes a ton of other things as well. Fine print from the Shop the Block gives these details on what's included, so you can't get the skin care mentioned above to reach the $50.00 for that one .. take a calculator, give yourself some time to study the shelves and get some rewards!!

 

[ottawamom]

Unless the "One offer per applicable transaction only" covers that. I don't know I'm Just putting that out there for consideration.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Unless the "One offer per applicable transaction only" covers that. I don't know I'm Just putting that out there for consideration.

I did my best to find any exclusions and that specific one wasn't mentioned anywhere --- i agree that it is best to ask, but if you're planning on spending the money it would be worth the risk to wait till Sunday to shop.

 

[brandyleeann]

The Sobey's West flyer is incredible! They have a Blue Friday promotion and I should be good for 872 air miles!!!! This is great because my husband never uses his card, and has just shy of 1,500 miles that will be expiring next year. My plan (since I am already at Onyx and just drained miles for 2 - 5 day WDW adult passes) is to use his card to get enough miles for 1 - 5 day WDW child pass. I ordered a second card so that when he does collect miles he can use my card to just go into the one account, so no risk of expiry.

 

[pigletto]

I just assumed the "One offer per applicable transaction" meant you could only get the points once.
And once again I have missed the date on the Rexall coupon. Thanks Ottawamom! I'll be using the one Rexall coupon that is good this weekend though.

 

[Donald - my hero]

I just assumed the "One offer per applicable transaction" meant you could only get the points once.
And once again I have missed the date on the Rexall coupon. Thanks Ottawamom! I'll be using the one Rexall coupon that is good this weekend though.

once again the joys of social media tripping me up ... i was trying to avoid being overly wordy (odd for me i must admit!)

The way i read that exclusion-ish clause is the same way i read the standard weekly coupon ... if i want to use that coupon more than once then i need to make multiple sales of that dollar value and present the coupon with each sale, I can't make a purchase totalling double the amount in one sale and get double the miles. In this case however, my line of thinking is that since there are 2 separate offers, one in the flyer and one through the coupon, i *should* get BOTH of the bonus miles since the flyer offer will be given automatically at the till. The only issue *should* be that the coupon doesn't cover all of the products that the flyer offer does so there will need to be some careful studying of tags & wording to get the correct items! I won't even benefit from this offer once though since no one in my family uses enough of those products for me to get even close to $50.00!

Chew on those words and see if my reasoning stands? I hate to steer someone wrong

 

[pigletto]

once again the joys of social media tripping me up ... i was trying to avoid being overly wordy (odd for me i must admit!)

The way i read that exclusion-ish clause is the same way i read the standard weekly coupon ... if i want to use that coupon more than once then i need to make multiple sales of that dollar value and present the coupon with each sale, I can't make a purchase totalling double the amount in one sale and get double the miles. In this case however, my line of thinking is that since there are 2 separate offers, one in the flyer and one through the coupon, i *should* get BOTH of the bonus miles since the flyer offer will be given automatically at the till. The only issue *should* be that the coupon doesn't cover all of the products that the flyer offer does so there will need to be some careful studying of tags & wording to get the correct items! I won't even benefit from this offer once though since no one in my family uses enough of those products for me to get even close to $50.00!

Chew on those words and see if my reasoning stands? I hate to steer someone wrong

I can totally see what you are saying as well. Hmmmm...

 

[Debbie]

Back from vacationing on the Koningsdam in the Southern Caribbean, and I am amazed (and overwhelmed) at what has gone through the past 2 weeks. I do see the I can run into Foodland tonight and pick up the gift cards that my son has asked for Christmas. I'm going to pick one up for DD's boyfriend, too. DD is coming on Monday, so I need to get everything bought and wrapped. It will save me postage! No Lindt chocolate deals, but the Sensations chocolates are the Buy 3 get 25/Buy 5 get 50. New ad tomorrow, and I don't want to miss the GC, so off I go.

Happy belated birthday, Donald-My Hero!

 

[Donald - my hero]

Back from vacationing on the Koningsdam in the Southern Caribbean, and I am amazed (and overwhelmed) at what has gone through the past 2 weeks. I do see the I can run into Foodland tonight and pick up the gift cards that my son has asked for Christmas. I'm going to pick one up for DD's boyfriend, too. DD is coming on Monday, so I need to get everything bought and wrapped. It will save me postage! No Lindt chocolate deals, but the Sensations chocolates are the Buy 3 get 25/Buy 5 get 50. New ad tomorrow, and I don't want to miss the GC, so off I go.

Happy belated birthday, Donald-My Hero!

Not sure where you live... but if you have a Metro close by they have Gift Cards on and the sale started today. I'm not even 100% sure which ones, but i know it's spend $50.00 get 50 AM You might want to glance at it before you head out!

Welcome home and thanks for the birthday wishes