Originally Posted by
DaveP
How do you figure that it's free? AirMiles is a business and it makes money from US. They get money from the retailers WE shop at. Those retailers offer AirMiles to us so we will shop at their businesses, therefore the businesses make money from us.
We pay the retailer, the retailer pays AirMiles and we get points. If the points are useless to us, then we may decide to shop elsewhere. Then the retailer loses and AirMiles loses.
Free stuff. Please.
They wouldn't offer the program if it wasn't in their best interest to do so.