Safeway's Sweet AirMiles Deals

[operabob]

Just had a look and it appears they sent out last week's offers again by mistake as it's the "03" image that came up when I clicked on it.

This week's should be:

http://www.safeway.ca/emaildirect/of...ct_04_2009.pdf

safeway.ca/emaildirect/offers/emaildirect_04_2009.pdf

Changing the "04" above to "05" around Thursday night should bring up next week's offers.

[sniperc151]

I think you wouldnt get airmiles with buying the gift card (ex buying a $100 gift card won't give him $100 airmiles) but if you buy the gift card for multiple transactions the process will go faster, no need to make change, sign, or enter a pin 5 times...

[gradin123]

The granola 90 calorie crunchers are on sale for $2 each.

These qualify for the Save $4 when you buy 4 quaker products from save.ca

So you can get 5 for $6 and get 20 Air Miles in the process

[operabob]

The correct email.direct has now been sent out.

Check your email.

[ccmp1974]

Great deal thanks!

[myguppy]

I think you wouldnt get airmiles with buying the gift card (ex buying a $100 gift card won't give him $100 airmiles) but if you buy the gift card for multiple transactions the process will go faster, no need to make change, sign, or enter a pin 5 times...

I wasn't confident about this either, although the two cashiers I asked said they WERE valid for airmiles accumulation [though you wouldn't get 100 airmiles, just the 5 as normal]. I haven't the energy to dig up my reciepts to confirm against the airmiles I was credited.
In either case, the time it saves me and the ease of use when purchasing multiple deals on different reciepts is worth it!!

[operabob]

gup,

Thanks,

I've never had a problem with multiple offers on a single receipt except on the email.direct where you have to read the small print.

If it's a flyer offer Buy 5 Get 50 on Kraft (for example) and I buy 15 in the same purchase/same receipt I get 50 x 3 = 150 AirMiles.

With the email.direct you have to be careful. For example this week's email.direct has a B1G20AMs on chicken. The small print reads:

Limit one bonus offer

Buy 1 and you get 20 AMs
Buy 2 and you still only get 20 AMs not 40 AMs.

This week's email.direct is a bit confusing though. For example the Pizza is B2G20AMs.

The small print is again Limit one bonus offer but it also says Household Limit 4. So if you buy 4 do you get 20 or 40 AMs. Clearly if you buy 6 the most AMs is 40 not 60.

[operabob]

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[operabob]

Brings up a question though:

If you bought $100 worth of Gift Cards other than Safeway's would you get the 100 AM bonus?

I'll have to look at the small print on that. If it does you'd save about 14%.

[sniperc151]

Operabob: I just phoned safeway about that question and they said base, and bonus airmiles (buy $100 get 100am) do not apply to any gift card purchase...

There is one exception though, Safeway at times has gift card promotions (buy $25 in gift cards get 15am, buy $100 in gift cards get 50am, etc) then buying gift cards would be worth it.

[operabob]

snipe,

They had one email.direct about 6 months ago where it was 25AMs on $50 GC and 60AMs on $100GC.

I bought $300 in Gift Cards as that's about a 9% savings and I use them when I travel as a business expense. I hope that offer comes up again.

[sniperc151]

Wow, good idea, do you know if they have gas cards?

[operabob]

I use the restaurant gift cards and besides to AirMile bonus get to write-off 50% of the meals.

Some Safeways have gas bars so the gift cards might work there. However, I seem to recall Safeway gift cards are specifically ineligible for the bonus. Not sure though.

Alternative is to get the Shell coupons but I don't believe you can get them at Safeway so no bonus there. Also, Shell $20 coupons are one of the poorest AirMile offers clocking in at $0.1143/AM.

[sniperc151]

I usually end up getting the $20 shell coupons from airmiles, I know the dollar ammount is low for the airmiles given, but the thing is Gas is one of the only things from airmiles.ca I actually need, but I may be getting some delta hotel certificates for this summer, much better than shell @ $0.14 per AM.

On a side note... While at the safeway gas bar the ad above the pump said that gift card purchases count towards a your fuel discount (exeptions are visa and safeway gift cards)... if you buy $100 gift cards that knocks 7 cents off the posted price, if you buy $200 of gift cards that knocks 10.5 cents off the posted price... so if there ever is another gift card airmile special keep this in mind...

[operabob]

Article in today's Globe & Mail indicated you can now go to AirMiles.ca and download a toolbar with a YAHOO search field.

Every 50 searches through it gets 5 AMs.

Haven't checked it out yet.