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i was just there got 10 michelinas for $20...and 100 airmiles plus 2 square pizzas for $10 bonus 25 miles and safeways 5 lb lasagane $12.99 bonus 15 miles...$43 for 140 airmiles...me happy......and a bonus won 3X10 AM on break open tickets...and i had a FPC for crest...complaint...and they had BOGO so i got both free
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Just got back too:
Didn't do $100 but figure I came out pretty good:
2 Dove 2 x 120g on sale 20 AM coupon in the book
2 Head & Shoulders on sale $2 coupon from Rouge book 20 AMs
2 Hoagies on sale 15 AMs
5 Frozen foods on sale (3 Eggos below house brand price, 1 peas, 1 fries below house brand)
4 Melba Toast $0.50 x 4 coupons 30 AMs
Total: 135 AMs + 10 AMs (Pop open) = 145 AMs
Total $ including tax: $42.03
Value of AMs: $0.14 x 145 = $20.30
Effgective extra savings: $20.30/$42.03 = 48.3%
Mom,
BTW: How is that Piazza Pizza? Is it like other frozen pizza or better. I was thinking I might go back for some this weekend and a couple more Melba toast.
OB
Who Says Men Can't Shop!
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everyone who is here when i make them loves the pizzas and they are sooo filling and way way better than frozen.....also if you have freezer space when you buy 20 michelinas for $40 you get 200 AM and its like getting $20 gas free.....175 with 25 extra
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My wife is going to "So You Think You Can Dance" when it's in Seattle in a couple of weeks.
We live in a condo but I was thinking I might suprise her with a small upright freezer when she gets back. I know she wants one. She's not the type to eat Michelina's though.
OB
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Next week's flyer (Aug 31 to Sept. 6) is in our Community paper today.
I can't match the prices until Sunday but it again includes an extra flyer "Summer Bonus". This flyer appeared last week as well and many name brand items were on sale with bonus AirMiles.
I'm mentioning it now as one of the specials this coming week is Gift Cards:
Buy $50 Get 10 AMs
Buy $100 Get 30 AMs
You'll recall that 2 weeks ago the email.direct had the following much better offer:
Buy $50 Get 25 AMs
Buy $100 Get 60 AMs
Once again Safeway failed to fix my e-mail problem over this so Beav and Osker if you can link this up again for me it will be greatly appreciated.
Note: This Tuesday is 10% off Customer Appreciation day (min. purchase $35). Gift cards are not eligible.
OB
Who Says Men Can't Shop!
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Thanks to Shopaholic Beaver for getting me this:
http://www.safeway.ca/emaildirect/of...ct_36_2008.pdf
Potential goodie if you have the Muscular Dystrophy Book.
There's a buy 2 get 30 AMs on the Signature Pizza while the email.direct has a buy 2 Get 50 AMs.
Awhile back they had a similar thing on batteries and I got both bonuses so it should work again.
Usually when it's Buy 2 on these pizzas they're $9.99 so assuming it's the same and 10% off today then $9 each or $$18 total and you'd pick up 80 AirMiles approx. = $11.20 in AMs.
OB
Who Says Men Can't Shop!
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September 7 - 13
Some good deals this week.
Check out the email.direct here:
http://www.safeway.ca/emaildirect/of...ct_37_2008.pdf
The bacon is marked down from $5.19 to $4.59 so buying 2 is $9.18 but use the coupon and you'll get $7 worth of AMs so effectively:
$1.09 each
Zellers has the Tostidos on at $3.19 each. Safeway is 2 for $6 and you pick up 25 AMs = $3.50 so effectively:
$1.25 each
The chicken is on as a special with 2 sides and 4 buns for $10.99. I assume you can use the coupon and get 25 AMs worth $3.50
Several of the P&G Brandsaver coupons can be used this week:
Ivory and Zest are BoGO (10 bars) and get 20 AMs worth $2.80.
The Ivory I looked at was $3.99 so that's a heck of a deal if you use 2two $0.75 coupons from the Brandsaver.
Dawn dish detergent is $2.49 B3G15 or B6G40. There are Brandasaver coupons making this one a good deal too. Also, look for the 30% more bottles.
Lots more. I'll try and keep people updated as I come across them. Safeway was only just repricing for this week as I was there.
OB
Who Says Men Can't Shop!
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OB,
Thanks for this! This is my go to link for my Safeway deals!
Not sure if this has been mentioned before but I found a way to effectively triple my airmiles every time I go to Safeway. I take my grocery money that is budgeted for that trip, transfer it to my BMO airmiles mastercard. I go to the store and purchase a Safeway gift card with my mastercard and get the airmiles for the gc purchase from Safeway as well as from Mastercard. Then I do my shopping and pay using the gc and collect airmiles again. Works like a charm. I've watched my airmiles add up using that trick! For every $100 I spend at Safeway I've been getting a base airmiles of 15 miles using this method istead of the usual 5. It takes very little time and works like a charm!
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How many airmiles per $ spent do you get with the BMO airmiles mastercard?
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It depends on which one you have. I have the silver card and I get 1 for every $20. Bronze is 1/$40. Gold, 1/$15. Bronze is free, no annual fee, silver fee is I think $35, and gold is like $70 I think. You can find out more at there website.
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I use an American Express Blue (free) card at Safeway: 1 AM per $20
The AMEX paid card is 1/$15
One of these days I'll work out how many dollars per year you have to spend to make it worthwile paying for a card.
OB
Who Says Men Can't Shop!
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All right the email.direct for September 14 - 20 is ready it just won't be sent out until Sunday:
http://www.safeway.ca/emaildirect/of...ct_38_2008.pdf
By next Wednesday just change to 38 to 39 in the URL and refresh and you'll get the following week's early.
I'll probably get the Dad's cookies but nothing else.
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Thanks for the tip. Your the best OB!
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Just picked up 2 Ivory 10 bar packages.
They are BoGo with 20 bonus Airmiles @ $3.99 each.
Total: $3.99 not counting tax
Used two $0.75 P&G BrandSaver coupons ($1.50)
Cost: $2.49
20 Bonus AirMiles approximately = $2.80
I made $0.31 and have 20 bars of soap! ;-)
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OK, Safeway has a Buy 3 Get 50 AirMiles on Christies Cookies (550g) @ $4.99 each. You'd have to spend $14.97 to get the 50 AMs and you'r only getting 16.67 AMs/bag (50/3) = $2.33/bag
However, the e-mail.direct has a coupon for Buy 2 Get 50 AMs on Dad's cookies (600g) also $4.99 each
http://www.safeway.ca/emaildirect/of...ct_38_2008.pdf
You only have to spend $9.98 and you're getting 25 AMs/bag = $3.50/bag
Also you get 9.1% more cookies (600g vs. 550g)
Dad's is by far the superior deal this week.
Others that seemed OK to me:
Primo Canned Tomatos $2.28 reg $1.75 on sale buy 4 get 15 AMs which is approx. $0.53/tin in AMs.
Johnsonville Brats 450g $5.59 on sale $3.99 B3G25 approx $1.16 in AMs/package.
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Here's a good example of how to be careful with Safeway's AirMiles promotions. Someone posted this page from Walmart's pre-anniversary flyer:
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It's hard to read but I assume this is on the 350g packages of Christie's cookies.
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OK, Safeway has a Buy 3 Get 50 AirMiles on Christies Cookies (550g) @ $4.99 each. You'd have to spend $14.97 to get the 50 AMs. 50 AMs approx = $7 in AMs so effective cost is $14.97 - $7.00 = $7.97 for 1650g or $0.48/100/g ($7.97/16.5)
Walmart's $1.47/350g = $0.42/100g
Mind you if it's a 300g bag then Safeway beats by a penny.
Still, the Dad's cookie deal is better.
However, if you use the AMs to buy something with a value greater than $0.14/AM (eg., 2 for 1 movie tickets $0.33/AM to $0.40/AM then Safeway is best bet in both cases).
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OB,
You are a numbers freak after my heart!!! I love your break down on the cost per AM! I've always wanted to make sure I'm not ripping myself off and now I come here to get the goods from you! I was planning on buying the Dads cookies so it sounds like I was on the right track, LOL! Thanks for crunching those numbers for us!
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I scored 98.5% in Graduate Statistics but can't tie my shoelaces! ;-)
OBsessive
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LOL, I got a 4.0 in Business Statistics but I'm basically to lazy to use it...
Wanda
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Just got home from Safeway earlier tonight with 144 airmiles for $61.47, Not Bad eh? I bought a GC with my BMO M/C, that gave me 2 from BMO, 2 from Safeway and the cashier screwed up and gave me the bonus 10 for purchasing a GC worth $50. Then I bought the tomatoes for 15 bonus, the Dads Cookies for 50, Pampers for 40, I had a lucky break winner worth 10. I got 3 for my $60 purchase from Safeway but I also used a 5X coupon so ended up with 15. So it adds up to around 144 airmiles. It cost me $0.43 per airmile tonight. I had coupons that I used for the pampers that made them a good deal for me.
I can almost taste the coffee I'm going to make with my new Krups coffee maker come Christmas time at this rate...
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Not bad.
144 AM approx = $20.16
$20.16/$61.47 = 32.8%
If you just just those AMs for 2 for 1 movie ticket you'd be around 90% savings elsewhere.
Just received a mail out solicitation for a new paid for AMEX credit card.
Normally, I don't bother with these as they aren't that great a value. This one I might opt for though.
Fee: $50 but you get 350 AMs = $49 value (first year only)
The normal rate on AMEX cards is 1 AM per $20 on the free card and $1 AM per $15 on the paid.
This card though is 1 AM per $10 at sponsors and 1 AM per $15 everywhere else. (plus the extras: travel insurance, etc.).
On your purchase at Safeway with this card your base AMs would have been 6.
With you 5Xs coupon you'd pick up 30 AMs an extra 15 worth $2.10
OB
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From the e-mail direct these non-advertised AirMile, etc. specials. They usually send it out PDF but not this time so I was able to Cut & Paste:
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Allright. Didn't go for any e-mail direct specials this week but just came back from Safeway.
6 Linguine 900g
3 Pizza Sauce
1 Spaghetti Sauce
2 T-Bone Steaks (Discount bin 30% off)
2 Johnsonvile Suasages 454 g (Discount bin $1.99 each)
Total bill: $43
Bonus Offers 2 x 50 Airmiles = 100 AMs
Scrapin's posted coupon 50 AirMiles
Credit card: 2 AMs (possibly 4 as I upgraded my card)
Total AMs: 152
Approx. Value: $21.56 which is approx. 50% of amount spent
If I don't count the meat, as I only used it to get to $40 for Scrapin's coupon and the meat didn't have AirMiles anyway it the savings elsewhere are about 65% or more.
Also, Safeway has higher prices than Loblaw's but even if it was a 20% difference then that's $8.60 off the $43.
$21.56 - $8.60 = almost $13 savings elsewhere on a purchase of $43 which is still 30% ahead.
Also, there's a Zellers on the way to Safeway. I checked out pasta there first: Primo 450g = $1.19 so 900g = $2.38
The Catelli at Safeway is $2.49/900g so it's $0.11 more but it comes with 10 AMs = approx. $1.40 so if you collect AMs you're $1.27/900g better off at Safeway.
Why $1.27 instead of $1.29?
Zellers points are worth about 1% of purchase so I included that amount in the comparison as well.
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Was just in Wal-Mart picking up new glasses.
The same spaghetti sauce was on for $0.01 less than Safeway (but no loyalty points).
The linguine was more than at Safeway although they had no-name brands on for $1.19/450g (equivalent to $2.30/900g).
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Wow OB I love your numbers!! had to read it a couple of times before I really understood; numbers are not my strong suit. I am with you on feeling the value with airmiles blows the competition out of the water for $ well spent.
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Shop,
They've changed the URL to reflect different offers in different provinces:
http://www.safeway.ca/emaildirect/of...8_BC_AB_SM.pdf
Not much that interests me this time except the Pantene. If you have the P&G Brandsaver coupon Buy 2 Get $2.50 it reduces it to $0.25/bottle.
In the flyer they have a new line of baby products B5G50 I think. As a new line prices should be good so the bonus should be good especially if you add in the 50 AMs on $40 coupon previously posted.
OB
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safeway.ca/emaildirect/offers/emaildirect_40_2008_BC_AB_SM.pdf
As the website truncated the long URL I'm posting this fragment so we can add it to:
http://www.
next week to see if we can see what the specials are by changing the 40 to 41.