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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 06:22 PM #46
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I specifically did most of my shopping this year at sdm for the purpose of gaining points to buy Xmas gifts, so yeah, a little disappointed on the promotion change BUT I heart sdm I will continue to buy there. It's still fun accumulating pts and getting free stuff
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 06:23 PM #47
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Totally agree. I have switched back to Safeway Airmiles. I use coupons to maximize my deals and it is more than worth it now that they do cash back at retailers. I can get my gas now for 'free' at Shell. I too have had terrible experiences with SDM points, customer service and their facebook pages and now that they have decided to stop the Mega redemption this year - blah! SDM you suck.
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 06:38 PM #48
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 06:45 PM #49
OMG!! We are low on coke and DH is clueless when it comes to sales and coupons, etc. He saw on another forum that coke is on sale, get 500 BP WUB2 coke(6x710ml), it's in the flyer, Sat and Sun only special. He saw a sign in the store yesterday and told me about it. I said go and buy some. Just came home and said no coke. Why not? They took the sign down and the cashier said it's a one day sale. There is no such thing as a one day special. I checked the flyer to make sure. DH says, I should go out again? Umm yeah, if you want coke over the holidays. I hate that SDM but DH likes that one because of the bigger electronics department.
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 06:55 PM #50
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They do sometimes have Saturday only sales.
But that being said, many of the Shoppers I go to don't bother putting out sale signs for the 1 or 2 day sales. Which makes it very confusing.
The other week when Pot of Gold chocolates was on, they had a little spot on a shelf in the chocolate bar aisle with the sale price (and the shelf was empty). Walked over to the Christmas aisle and found a whole bunch of boxes, but no sale price. Had the cashier check the price for me and they were the ones on sale.
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 07:02 PM #51
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 07:33 PM #52
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 07:36 PM #53
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 07:46 PM #54
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For me I dont shop at SDM a lot, but i still do. I typically just buy the sales with coupons. I dont do all of the 20X events since I cant afford it. I have enough to do ONE 50,000 redemption. I am disappointed that it will be 20 less than I thought. 20 bucks might not be anything to some but its a lot to me. Makes me BEEP! BEEP BEPP!!!! (words) that SDM changed it.
I never buy anything to just get me points either. I totally appreciate the early flyer , but jeez SDM has nothing overly good on the flyer IMHO. Happy shopping too all!
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 07:47 PM #55
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I too am disappointed in the drop of the amount for redemption this year, but it is what it is.
It takes me all year just to get to the highest redemption level as I will only shop there on some 20x events, and for items that are on sale that we need around the house, or something that we are starting to get low on and is on sale, otherwise I can get most other items at other stores for cheaper (such as milk for $3.99 @ Independent this weekend).
I will be getting pretty much all grocery items anyway, so hopefully the stuff I intend to pick up will be on sale. The grocery flyer hasn't been posted (I'm assuming there will be one), so until I see that, I'll wait to get my list together.
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 08:12 PM #56
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i will continue to milk this optimum thing while buying only staple items at low prices using coupons on 20x days
i will however change how i spend my points. last year was my first year really using my card, and i did 2 mega redemptions.
this year i just did a redemption today because it worked out better for me, and i think i will continue to do redemptions now throughout the year, on household items, that are on sale and using coupons :D
IF they had decent electronics i would be happy, but i have seen the past 2 christmases they have just brought in either garbage items, or decent(ish) items that are outrageously priced. what gives?
wouldn't it be perfect if they had good quality electronics that were priced right?
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 08:15 PM #57
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I will drastically be cutting my spending at SDM. Here is how it looked for me:
2011 - never even touched SDM flyers despite religiously PM'ing other stores. I thought they were too expensive to pay attention to.
2012 - early spring I price matched sale items from them. Then I began the optimum lesson. In the late summer and fall I really started to maximize and learn how to gain so many points. I may of bought some things at a bit more expensive that I didn't need because of the points but thats how they trick you. I think I mostly did this all leading up to this "mega" I thought was coming.
2013 - I will most likely go back to PM'ing at WM because even on 20x days there isn't enough cheap stuff for me to buy for just DH and I. And if there is chances are I don't need it because my stockpile is already full of whatever the item is. And even if I need the items, good chance they won't have it in stock.
All this being said I will steadily decrease my spending at SDM and I will not be redeeming this weekend. I will instead wait until I see a flyer with lower prices on items I buy throughout the year and redeem at $170 and then slowly kiss SDM goodbye. All this can be blamed on two things. The first and biggest thing is lying to us all by telling us we were getting our points on friday and now there is a "glitch" in which who knows when we will get them. The second, smaller reason is because they lowered the redemption levels.Insert Clever Signature Here
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 08:49 PM #58
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 09:04 PM #59
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Shopper's has blocked a lot of us from being able to comment on their Facebook page! Hilarious. They don't like the power of media obviously.
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Sun, Nov 25th, 2012, 09:11 PM #60
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2010 was my big shopping year for SDM, in 2011 I had more stockpile stuff and since we were moving etc and I had a lot of points, I did not shop as much but still got milk etc and did 20x.
After multiple issues last year, from my local store being told to enter all coupons as 2002 to ensure we did not get points even though it meant them eating the tax, rude cashiers, and a lot of false advertising from them coupled with the issues we all know about here, it just wasn't worth it for me. I shopped there a lot less this year. I still got my milk etc from them, but like mentioned they make a loss on many of these items, especially when coupled with the points yet I have still redeemed twice and have points. I wont not shop there, but like a recent promo, I won't shop there just for points when I can break even or get a few bucks cheaper in WM
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