Purdee, to get the 100 airmiles you need to spend $100 dollars after the coupons and taxes.
JO
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Purdee, to get the 100 airmiles you need to spend $100 dollars after the coupons and taxes.
JO
Many unadvertised AM specials at Shelbourne & McKenzie including Quaker bars B2G20 but at $3.99 & $4.29 each.
Also Grissol crackers. Lots of coupons on those out there.
Safeway brandlight bulbs, etc.
What rewards would you redeem for that value air miles at 14 cents each? I looked at a bunch of different stuff to redeem and got anywhere from 7-12 cents each. Was looking for a good deal on the Wii fit plus with balance board, it looks a lot better to redeem for $100 HBC card (800 miles) than to order it direct from airmiles (1250 miles). I didn't find any decent rewards that value them at more than 12 cents/mile though :frown:
Generally gift cards give you a better rate of return than product rewards.
For example Boston Pizza Gift Card would be valued at 12.7 cents per AirMile. Chapters is 13.5 cents
The $0.14 is based on the average of all gift cards/certificates and should be treated as a starting point.
As I recall GAP cards are above $0.14 and could be used when they have their special days.
If you exchange for flights you're likely to come in above $0.20/AM.
2 for 1 Movie tickets are above $0.30
Hordosr compiled this list on another site:
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Company-----------$ Value---AM---Cents/AM
Cineplex--------- ------30--- 175---17.1429
IRIS--------------------20---125---16.0000
Roots------------------20---125---16.0000
National Car Rent----50---325---15.3846
Budget Car Rent-----50---325---15.3846
Alamo Car Rent------50---325---15.3846
Deerhurst Resort----100---675---14.8148
Spa Ralais-----------50---340---14.7059
Blue Jays------------25---170---14.7059
Pharmasave---------20---140---14.2857
VIA----------------25---175---14.2857
Sunglass Hut--------100---700---14.2857
Lawton-------------20---140---14.2857
Rexall ---------------25---175---14.2857
Sobeys Atlantic------50---350---14.2857
Metro (A&P etc)-----20---140---14.2857
Delta Hotels--------100---720---13.8889
Danier--------------50---365---13.6986
Chapters,Coles------50---365---13.6986
Talbots----------------50--- 365---13.6986
Laura Secord---------- 25--- 185---13.5135
Banana Republic------- 25--- 185---13.5135
SportChek-------------25--- 185---13.5135
The Gap---------------25--- 185---13.5135
Kernel's----------------25---185---13.5135
Rona------------------ 50--- 375---13.3333
Montreal Symph--------20---150---13.3333
Best Western----------50--- 375---13.3333
Botanix----------------50--- 375---13.3333
Travel Plus------------ 50--- 385---12.9870
Marlin Travel-----------50--- 385---12.9870
tripcentral.ca Atl-------50--- 385---12.9870
Club Voyage Que-------50---385---12.9870
Earls-------------------50---385---12.9870
The Keg---------------25---195---12.8205
Boston Pizza-----------50--- 395---12.6582
Jean Coutu------------ 20--- 160---12.5000
Cara------------------ 25--- 200---12.5000
HBC-------------------25--- 200---12.5000
Hilton----------------- 50--- 400---12.5000
Starbucks------------- 10--- 85----11.7647
Second Cup----------- 10--- 85----11.7647
Shell (gas)------------ 20--- 175---11.4286
Staples----------------25--- 225---11.1111
Itunes---------------- 10--- 90----11.1111
Also, some of these have higher values if you buy larger amounts:
Works out to $0.125 if you buy a $25 card.Quote:
Starbucks------------- 10--- 85----11.7647
Gap is $0.1369 on the $50 card.
I gather I was thinking of the Roots card @ $0.16.
My local food bank doesn't provide a tax receipt. :( Does anyone know which charity/organization will?
Hor,
Sorry good buddy.
Full credit for the list goes to you (although I did the same thing myself many moons ago on the articles I wrote for SC for the Blog. I just couldn't remember where to find them)! ;-)
Google "Food banks" in your area to see what comes up.
First of all, thank you to this thread and OB. Yesterday, I went to SW and spent $101.19 (incl. $0.19 tax) and got 395 airmiles. I bought 100 cans of Heinz beans for donation and other groceries for my family. Heinz beans offer buy 10 get 25AM. And I also used the spend $100 get 100AM. I'm so excited. I've been collecting airmiles for about 4 years now and only have just over 900 airmiles. This one shopping trip alone made me a lot of airmiles. :)
Here's my question: when I went home I noticed the cashier only rung in 99 cans of beans hence my total AM earned was 225. If she had rung it in as 100 cans of beans then I'd have 250AM. Because it's buy 10 get 25AM. Should I go back to the store, pay the $1 and get 25AM?
Another question: I was planning to save the AMs for travel but is it better to get Shell gift cards? I always need gas. And don't you also get AM when you purchase gas at Shell? So you'd get some AM back, right?
Thank you in advance. :)
Yes, go to customer service with the receipt. Make sure you get them to write it in the AirMiles book they have.Quote:
Here's my question: when I went home I noticed the cashier only rung in 99 cans of beans hence my total AM earned was 225. If she had rung it in as 100 cans of beans then I'd have 250AM. Because it's buy 10 get 25AM. Should I go back to the store, pay the $1 and get 25AM?
Did you have any B3G1 coupons on the beans. 20 will cost me $15 and get 50 AMs ($7)
Shell gas coupons work out to 11.43 cents/AM which is one of the poorer deals. I recently converted for $200 worth of coupons but they had a special on that worked out to 13.33 cents/AM but that was the first time in years I recall that special was offered. Who knows when/if again? If you are specificall planning to use them to fly that would probably work out better.Quote:
Another question: I was planning to save the AMs for travel but is it better to get Shell gift cards? I always need gas. And don't you also get AM when you purchase gas at Shell? So you'd get some AM back, right?
Yes.Quote:
Would being an Air Miles Gold Member change that percentage point? (there seems to be some special flight deals for the gold members)...
Depending on the time of the flight I specifically looked at the value was $0.20-$0.36. What times they would actually have seats available I can't say. Other flights in peak periods I looked at varied from $0.16 and above. A special would definitely boost those figures.
PS:
Yes, but generally not that many to boost the 11.43 figure that much higher.Quote:
And don't you also get AM when you purchase gas at Shell? So you'd get some AM back, right?
Yes I used the B3G1 coupons on the beans. The other AMs are from other groceries that I bought for my family like Johnsonville sausages $3.99/package B3G25AM and Smuckers event B5G40AM (3 x Smuckers @ 2/$7 and 2 x Bick's pickles @ 2/$5) I had $0.50 off smuckers x 3 and $0.50 + $1.50 Bick's.
Oh I "had" to get 4 chocolate bars to bring the total to over $100 so I can use the spend $100 get 100AM.
Thanks :)
On $20 Shell regular gas until Dec. with coupons you can get 5 bonus AMs.
$20 coupon costs 175 AMs
Accounting for the bonus reduces it to 175 - 5 + 170 AMs
$20/170AMs = 11.76 cents/AM
Now if you have the 10Xs coupon and use premium gas you can bring the value closer to about 13.5 cents on a $50 - $60 fill.
Will be late getting things up. Possibly 2morrow.
Lousy week.
Usually this time of year Safeway really pushes the AM specials especially the boxed frozen foods but it looks awful IMO.
Hopefully the email.direct and next week are better.
Dec. 13 - 19:
In the following first number is sale price. Second number is effective value based on $0.14/AM). If there is a multiple offer, ie, B3G15 & B6G45 a third number corresponds to the value of the extra offer.
With effective valuing you can compare the relative prices of a product after accounting for the AirMiles against the same product in another store. For example,
If Coca-Cola is $2.00 with 10 Airmiles it has an effective value of $0.60 [$2 - (10 x $0.14)]. If another store is selling the same product for $1 you know the effect of the AirMiles beats that price.
Print off a copy of the following to take comparison shopping.
SS = Safeway Select
Saf = Safeway
Sig =Signature
Sch = Schneider's
GMS = Gourmet Meat Shop
OO = O Organics
ER = Eating Right
ML = Maple Leaf
BC = Betty Crocker
NPG = No Price Given
P.1
NADA
P. 2
Olivieri Filled Pasta & Sauces B4G60 4.59/2.49
P.3
GMS Chicken Wings B2G30 10.99/8.89
GMS Bacon Wrapped Sirloin B2G25 9.49/7.74
GMS Phyllo Hors D'Oeuvres B1G15 12.99/10.89
Sig. Turkey Breast 600g B1G20 9.99/7.19
P.4
Bakery Counter Fruit Cake B2G20 6.49/5.09
iTunes Multipack NPG ($30 example shown) B1G40 subtract 5.60
Western Union Minimum transfer $300 G50 subtract $7
P.5
Saf. Swedish Meatballs B2G25 10.99/9.24
SS Meat Lasagna B1G15 10.99/8.89
Oral B toothbrushes & Crest Pro Health tooth paste 25% off NPG B2G20 -1.40/item
P.6
Royale TP 12/24 B2G30 6.99/4.89
Sponge Towel Ultras 6 roll B2G50 6.99/3.24
P. 7
Life Source BP One Step Monitor B1G30 74.88/70.68
Life Source BP Quick Response Step Monitor B1G30 89.88/85.68
Method Event B3G25 ($3.50):
Various prices starting at 3.99 subtract $1.17/item
J&J Event B3G25 ($3.50) & B6G60 ($8.40):
Neutragena & Aveeno 20% off NPG subtract 1.17/1.40
Tylenol & Motrin 10.99/9.82/9.59
Listerine 6.99/5.82/5.49
Benylin Cold 6.49/5.32/5.09
P. 8
Nada
Insert
Pointsettia offer continues NPG:
6" B1G10 (-$1.40) B2G25 (-1.75 each) B3G50 (-2.33 each)
8" B1G20 (-$2.80) B2G50 (-3.50 each) B3G100 (-4.67 each)
Let me know if I've missed anything.
I'm a bit surprised as Safeway usually has tremendous offers at this time of year. Hopefully the email.direct is better as well as next week.
Well we're on page 100 ... so maybe there will be spend $100 get 100 AM in the email promo.
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Hopin' there another B$100G100 coupon this week as our open house is this weekend.
I might cave and pick up some of the nanaimo bars. Thanks for all the great posts on this thread, I have earned lots of airmiles because of you hard workin SC'ers!!!
fingers crossed on the next 2 weeks for my donations...come on safeway!!
LOL!
Just got my latest tax receipt in the mail today.
Just noticed we passed the 100 page and 1500 posts mark. What a great thread