Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[kristabelle13]

We don't go to Shell (there's only 1 in the city and it's not very convenient to get to) so i don't know how quickly they post the miles --- if you go past that timeline i don't think you'll be happy with the next answer. To chase them down you need to wait 60 days for regular miles & and 120 for bonus miles

Ha! Yeah, I chased them down for Apple Bonus miles after 6 months last time. Thanks for your help (and I meant to add before) and the warm welcome!

 

[mernin]

I just did my shop at Sobeys for Blue Friday. Thought I was good at the $100 (which turned out to be 99.78) so missed out on 100 bonus AM and he split one of my purchases over the two bills so missed out on another 40 bonus AM. I guess I'm going back to get it fixed not exactly what I was planning to do!

Edited to add: easily fixed. Spent $182.62 and got 498 AM. Missed 100 more bonus by $23 (I should really pay more attention to how much I am putting in the cart because I'm sure I could have bought that much more!)

 

[Sparrow78]

I did my shop too! Didn't think to split because o e time they told me it's not allowed anymore. I spent $203 and got 370 Airmiles. I bought the cheese even though I can get it cheaper at Costco but since I'm making pizzas for supper tonight just grabbed them there.
I'll be good when mine post as its sad to see "0" on my page lol

 

[kerreyn]

Did my Blue Friday shopping today too! I had two orders and spent $367.69 for 972 airmiles. My daughter and her nubby had two food orders, and a liquor store order, worth about 1025 (not sure what their spend was). Looks like once these airmiles post next week we'll be able to order another Universal Orlando pass. That'll just leave one last Universal pass and one regular priced 5 day WDW pass to go!

I told my daughter that once we have enough for the Universal and WDW passes, we'll get working on her airmiles card to get them into Onyx too.

 

[Mickey&JoshNut]

I left a lot on the shelves. but they were the only ones I found that had the sweet relish.

There must be someone else in the area that cleaned them out...I was talking to the owner and she said that as a result of this she had to put a limit of 4. Head Office then sent them printouts that said that the limit was 6.

 

[ottawamom]

I went to a third Shell today - same as the second. Card scanned and showed balance of AMs but didn't tell me how much I earned.... the ones from two days ago didn't post yet...what's the wait time on these? And then what's the course of action?

Shell is all over the map as to when they post. I must admit I haven't done an analysis of it but they can take anywhere from 3 days to a week or more. The Airmiles earned never show up on my receipts either. I don't worry about them too much because I only get them for filling up with fuel so its 1 here and there.

 

[Donald - my hero]

Anyone dealing with allergies in your family right now (this spring seems worse for us!) I just got a coupon from Rexall for bonus miles if you buy any size of Flonase .No idea how much this costs but it could count towards the weekend bonus as well
Buy any size Flonase allergy spray, get 20 AM

 

[kerreyn]

The only offer I got on the Load and Go app today was spend $30 and get 50 airmiles. IF that even works. Never did hear back from Airmiles over the 20 am I didn't get on the spend $10 and get 20. Their app sucks. I'm going back to just using the emailed coupon.

 

[ottawamom]

Load the spend $30 get 50AM. Use the email coupon at the cash. Both have been known to show up. Separate line items. You use the coupon and the other magically appears on the receipt (well it does for me anyway)

 

[kerreyn]

Load the spend $30 get 50AM. Use the email coupon at the cash. Both have been known to show up. Separate line items. You use the coupon and the other magically appears on the receipt (well it does for me anyway)

I had the load and go spend $10 and get 20 airmiles loaded last week and also had the emailed coupon of spend $50 get 80. Monday, I spent $58 and didn't receive the bonus 20 so I called Airmiles. The woman I spoke to said it was a 'glitch' and will be fixed shortly. The original spend $10 get 20 was still loaded in my app, so I reprinted another emailed coupon and spent $63 on Wednesday- still didn't receive the bonus 20 from the app.

Long story short, I've loaded the spend $30 and get 50 to the app for next week, but I'll be calling on Monday before I go to Rexall to see if their 'glitch' has been fixed.

PS: This is also the third week in a row that I haven't received item specific airmiles offers on the load and go app. When I told the woman from Airmiles about it she sounded surprised that I only received the spend so much to get this much offer. I'll be asking them about that too. The app was working great for me until about 3 weeks ago. Rant over.

 

[ottawamom]

That.... (don't think I can type the word in polite company) I don't think I'll ever be able to figure out their system. Why some people can do something and others try the exact same thing and it doesn't work. I know the Rexall customer service is no help at all from the couple of times I've called them. The only thing I can suggest is taking a screen shot of your page when you load your offers. Take it with you when you shop. If they don't work perhaps your store manager can do something to rectify the situation at the store level.

 

[momof2gr8kids]

Well I bailed on blue friday. Was a crazy week at work and after supper and getting kids from the pool I didn't have the energy to go back. Having wine instead! Lol

 

[marchingstar]

i bailed on blue friday too! i have a funeral out of town this weekend that i've been preparing for--i could have done a trip this morning but i just wasn't feeling it. i glanced at the flyer and although there were a good number of miles up for grabs, it felt less amazing than previous blue friday specials. i'm pretty sure a couple months ago i bought 4 packs of bacon and earned 100 miles and today the same 4 packs were worth 50, for instance. 50 is still awesome, but combine the seeming drop in bonus miles with my weekend plans, i just couldn't be bothered. glad for folks who took advantage--i'll own next blue friday!

 

[momof2gr8kids]

i bailed on blue friday too! i have a funeral out of town this weekend that i've been preparing for--i could have done a trip this morning but i just wasn't feeling it. i glanced at the flyer and although there were a good number of miles up for grabs, it felt less amazing than previous blue friday specials. i'm pretty sure a couple months ago i bought 4 packs of bacon and earned 100 miles and today the same 4 packs were worth 50, for instance. 50 is still awesome, but combine the seeming drop in bonus miles with my weekend plans, i just couldn't be bothered. glad for folks who took advantage--i'll own next blue friday!

Yeah Friday's too hard to get everything together. Why can't they change it to a $hitload of am Saturday? I think that marketing scheme would be more popular anyways. .

 

[oceanwave]

Can cash airmiles be used to buy gift cards at Shell? If so, anyone know what type of gift cards they have?

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Edited to add: easily fixed. Spent $182.62 and got 498 AM. Missed 100 more bonus by $23 (I should really pay more attention to how much I am putting in the cart because I'm sure I could have bought that much more!)

I use the calculator on my phone to keep track of what I'm spending when I need to hit a certain dollar amount. Every time I put something in the cart I add the price to the running total. You just need to remember to not include any milk products in your totals.

 

[momof2gr8kids]

Can cash airmiles be used to buy gift cards at Shell? If so, anyone know what type of gift cards they have?

Not any more. They just changed that after the big deal of AM cash being stolen from accounts. Which is a huge deal for me. Got a ton of GC last Christmas for a wide variety of places using my am cash.

 

[ottawamom]

No "milk products" is that an east coast thing. I usually have dairy in all my shops?

 

[mernin]

I use the calculator on my phone to keep track of what I'm spending when I need to hit a certain dollar amount. Every time I put something in the cart I add the price to the running total. You just need to remember to not include any milk products in your totals.

No "milk products" is that an east coast thing. I usually have dairy in all my shops?

That's a good idea. I try to do the mental math but it doesn't work well for me! For dairy, I also have it in most of my purchases and never noticed it didn't count.

 

[NorthernGrl]

Yeah Friday's too hard to get everything together. Why can't they change it to a $hitload of am Saturday? I think that marketing scheme would be more popular anyways. .

Best name for a shopping event ever!! lol