Airmiles Armchair Chatter

Whats the worse thing that can happen, they say no. No biggy. give it a try.
Did you MISS my story of what could happen???? OMG .. just thinking about it gives me palpitations :P There is NO way my hubby will ever let me even attempt that again if he's with me
 
Went to Rexall spent $59, saved $56 in coupons and got 126am! Didn't make it to Foodland unfortunately.
Well done! I went back to Foodland to get 3 more gc, and the cashier read "Customer has reached gift card limit [for air miles deal]. :laughing: I really do not need more gc for a while. With just 2 of us in the house, and the (VERY) full pantry, freezer and fridge. . . .
 


I just logged into my DH's AM account and there is a Sobeys offer there. Buy $200 in gift cards and get 50 bonus miles. In our flyer for just this weekend, you can buy $200 in gift cards and get 95 bonus miles. I'm wondering if these 50 miles are in addition to the 95 miles...I'm thinking yes, as typically the stores run their own promotions.

Thoughts?

Edit to add: The 50 miles offer is in my account too.
 
I gave my son tickets to mastermind and they we turned away due to the show being overbooked.
I felt bad for them.
Hopefully this doesn't happen often.
Hugs Mel

They warn you this can happen. We always arrive way too early to make sure we get in. They actually moved the day of the movie in Ottawa from Thursday to Wednesday night. Notified people at 8:30pm Tuesday night. On the plus side your son didn't miss a good movie.
 


They warn you this can happen. We always arrive way too early to make sure we get in. They actually moved the day of the movie in Ottawa from Thursday to Wednesday night. Notified people at 8:30pm Tuesday night. On the plus side your son didn't miss a good movie.

We went Wednesday night in Halifax and got there about 20 minutes before show time and we were lucky to get 2 seats together that were not in very front rows by the screen.

Oh, and by the way, the movie was HILARIOUS! I haven't laughed out loud that much at an actual movie in a long time.
 
We went Wednesday night in Halifax and got there about 20 minutes before show time and we were lucky to get 2 seats together that were not in very front rows by the screen.

Oh, and by the way, the movie was HILARIOUS! I haven't laughed out loud that much at an actual movie in a long time.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. It just wasn't my kind of movie I guess.
 
Just curious, do you have something you are working towards? Our shopping patterns change dramatically when there isn't a push for certain redemption! Once we have the car rental squared away we'll probably go back to our *normal* shopping patterns (we've scored 2 5 day passes, a night at the Sheraton Gateway in Pearson the night before we leave and almost have enough for car rental for the entire 18 days we'll be there now) I don't buy things we don't need, but all my drug store purchases happen at Rexall now and we do make an hour round -trip commute to Sobey's every week right now, and you can bet we will be driving almost 30 min (both directions) to get the Gift Cards this weekend! We've always treated the grocery shopping as our date night and love driving ..it's an outing!!!

I hope you didn't think my comments were disparaging; they weren't meant that way at all. I'm quite impressed with how well you and some others on this thread have been able to make use of the offers available to you.

I'll use whatever air miles I have to buy WDW tickets, because it seems a pretty good value for the miles. But our trip is not contingent on saving air miles for the tickets, so there's no real time pressure on accumulating them. Actually the tickets I pick up aren't even necessarily for a particular trip - we'll go again sometime, and when we do, it's one less thing I'll have to pay for. Yay! :-)

I've been doing a lot more shopping at Sobeys and collecting a lot more miles as a result of this thread, but I do find I have to be careful. I don't buy anything we won't use, but I do occasionally buy stuff I might not have bought otherwise, and I'm also sometimes tempted to pay a bit more for something I could find cheaper elsewhere. For example, last week I bought a couple of the strawberry/blackberry/mango deals at Sobeys. They are all things I regularly (or at least occasionally) buy, and we will use all of it, but I could definitely buy the strawberries (and probably the blackberries) cheaper at Costco. And it's not even like I'd have to make a special trip to Costco to do it - I was there half an hour before the Sobeys trip! So I'm trying to avoid letting myself fall into a habit of "chasing" air miles - I'll pick them up when it's convenient and cost effective, but it's hard for me to justify a 100km round-trip journey just for Air Miles. Even for a really good Air Miles offer!

Happy collecting, and thanks for all the ongoing tips!
 
I hope you didn't think my comments were disparaging; they weren't meant that way at all. I'm quite impressed with how well you and some others on this thread have been able to make use of the offers available to you.

I'll use whatever air miles I have to buy WDW tickets, because it seems a pretty good value for the miles. But our trip is not contingent on saving air miles for the tickets, so there's no real time pressure on accumulating them. Actually the tickets I pick up aren't even necessarily for a particular trip - we'll go again sometime, and when we do, it's one less thing I'll have to pay for. Yay! :-)

I've been doing a lot more shopping at Sobeys and collecting a lot more miles as a result of this thread, but I do find I have to be careful. I don't buy anything we won't use, but I do occasionally buy stuff I might not have bought otherwise, and I'm also sometimes tempted to pay a bit more for something I could find cheaper elsewhere. For example, last week I bought a couple of the strawberry/blackberry/mango deals at Sobeys. They are all things I regularly (or at least occasionally) buy, and we will use all of it, but I could definitely buy the strawberries (and probably the blackberries) cheaper at Costco. And it's not even like I'd have to make a special trip to Costco to do it - I was there half an hour before the Sobeys trip! So I'm trying to avoid letting myself fall into a habit of "chasing" air miles - I'll pick them up when it's convenient and cost effective, but it's hard for me to justify a 100km round-trip journey just for Air Miles. Even for a really good Air Miles offer!

Happy collecting, and thanks for all the ongoing tips!
OH heck NO! My skin is a lot thicker than that!!! I mean, i even venture into some of the other threads "out there" beyond the relative safety of the Canadian boards :P I hope you didn't feel that i was out of line --- just trying to point out that if we don't have a certain thing in mind to earn towards we aren't as Mile Hungry. Last night i was glancing thru the earlier pages in this thread and i can easily pinpoint when we decided to make a spur of the moment trip after i snagged a deal on Black Friday :P It's really an effort for us to shop this way and we're lucky we have a flexible income as well as a place to store a LOT of toilet paper under our bed (an extra set of kitchen cabinets in the basement helps store the non-perishables as well)

I agree with the need to be careful about the price of things but since our major grocery shopping *usually* happens at Metro, the prices are pretty similar to those at Sobey's. If we're not careful the thrill of the hunt does create a dilemma -- we HATE salmon and radishes but ... 50 AM for the meal deal (just kidding we will NOT buckle to that pressure!!)
 
I just logged into my DH's AM account and there is a Sobeys offer there. Buy $200 in gift cards and get 50 bonus miles. In our flyer for just this weekend, you can buy $200 in gift cards and get 95 bonus miles. I'm wondering if these 50 miles are in addition to the 95 miles...I'm thinking yes, as typically the stores run their own promotions.

Thoughts?

Edit to add: The 50 miles offer is in my account too.
Are you able to open that link and then copy it here?? I found one on mine for Foodland that isn't in the flyer and it's HERE for any who'd like it (edited to add -- i notice the end of the link is ONYX -- wonder if that explains why it's not appearing on everyone's? Fine print doesn't say it's targeted though, so give it a try!

Foodland spend $60 get 20, Spend $80 get 40 Spend $100 get 60

 
URGH slap me stupid! I got an email from Rexall over 2 weeks ago with a heads up about a contest for their 112 anniversary sale -- a contest with DAILY entries to win either 11,200 AM or one of 112 gift cards for $100.00 and i FORGOT to start entering!! Here's the link, it says you can enter daily so let's give it a try and see if one of us can win (yeah right, I can dream can't i??)
Rexall daily entry to win BIG
 
Just back from Sobey's. Scored a whopping 58AM. :yay: I can't remember the last week I had a number like that at Sobey's. I walked the aisles and there was nothing in the way of AM. I guess they figure people are going to shop anyway with Thanksgiving coming up. No need to have an incentive to bring shoppers into the store.

Here's hoping there is a late October slump that will bring some AM deals.
 
I've been a rather chatty duck today, so why stop right? I've just spent some time scouring the Rexall flyer (with ABSOULETLY no intention of shopping there this week!) and have come up with a few suggestions for people!
On Sunday ONLY they have a "Heads to Toe Event" -- spend $50.00 on:skin care, sun care, hand & body lotion, shampoo, conditioner, hair styling, oral care or shaving products and get 100 AM
here comes my spin on it to make it work better for you though!
All Aveno products are 25% off PLUS spend $20.00 on those products and get 20 AM :thumbsup2:sunny:
Oral B power brushes and heads are 20% off PLUS they have a coupon on the website for Buy 2 get $2.00 off -- most of these are uber $$ if you need to push to the $50.00:thumbsup2 :santa:
A ton of the Rexall branded candies/snacks are one sale and buy 2 get anywhere from 3 - 8 AM :santa:

[COLOR=#5900b3]@pigletto[/COLOR] --Reading glasses BOGO :rolleyes1
Schick products on sale 20% off -- buy 2 get 5 AM :thumbsup2
Soft Soap/Irish Spring $4.99 --buy 2 get 5 AM:thumbsup2
Rexall body lotions --#3.99 -- buy 2 get 4 AM:thumbsup2
Dial Products --$4.99 -- buy 2 get 5 AM:thumbsup2
Fri-Sun ONLY they have a bag of 24 Purex pods --$2.49:sunny:

My own special legend! :thumbsup2 = this will be included in the Sunday Head to Toe Event
:sunny: - things you can use on a trip south -- aveno sunscreen is $$ but if you have sensitive skin their products are great & Purex pods you can pop some in your liquids bag
:santa: --Christmas is coming and we all need to fill stockings!

HAPPY HUNTING! This is obvioulsy a trip you need to set time aside for and come prepared with a calucator and pen & paper. Take time to go thru the coupons on the Rexall website first to find $$-off on tons of products as well thanks to @AngelDisney for the heads up about these gems!
 
Just back from Sobey's. Scored a whopping 58AM. :yay: I can't remember the last week I had a number like that at Sobey's. I walked the aisles and there was nothing in the way of AM. I guess they figure people are going to shop anyway with Thanksgiving coming up. No need to have an incentive to bring shoppers into the store.

Here's hoping there is a late October slump that will bring some AM deals.

Hi Hon
Me too
I ended up getting one targeted item (cream and strawberry pie)
10 airmiles for me at Sobeys.
Let's hope the next flyer before Thanksgiving is better.
Hugs Mel
 

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