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Originally Posted by Zonny

Lysol Hands Free hand soap thingamabobber was $9.99 and 5,000 points, and I had a $5 coupon. There's rebate forms out there somewhere for these isn't there? No tax today either.

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I picked one of those up at Zehrs yesterday, but not as good as your deal ... ie. I had only a $2 coupon, and wasn't a NoTax day ... still a good price to try out this gizmo! btw, has anyone who has this unit tried to refill the bottle with a different variety, eg. Softsoap, and if so, any issues with the pumping mechanism? Lysol refills are reg. $4.99 at Zehrs, whereas, 340ml bottles of Softsoap can be had for under a buck quite often at NoFrills ... even less per ml. when the huge refill containers are on sale. Just wondering, as I'm not thrilled with paying 5 bucks for 251ml soap refill. Thanks.

I have refilled mine.. its a ***** to open the lid, but you will find "how to" on youtube. I used a different brand of soap which tends to be thicker and makes the unit work harder. Could water it down in that case?

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Originally Posted by Pointsman

I picked one of those up at Zehrs yesterday, but not as good as your deal ... ie. I had only a $2 coupon, and wasn't a NoTax day ... still a good price to try out this gizmo! btw, has anyone who has this unit tried to refill the bottle with a different variety, eg. Softsoap, and if so, any issues with the pumping mechanism? Lysol refills are reg. $4.99 at Zehrs, whereas, 340ml bottles of Softsoap can be had for under a buck quite often at NoFrills ... even less per ml. when the huge refill containers are on sale. Just wondering, as I'm not thrilled with paying 5 bucks for 251ml soap refill. Thanks.

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I refill mine with Palmolive or Dawn. Dish liquid is the right consistency and I know it's not 'hand soap' but it works well for me and it is cheap!

about refilling the dispenser

http://forum.smartcanucks.ca/215042-...a/#post3583684

Went to Loblaws to try to pick up a few dispensers, of course there were none in stock. Why was I even surprised?! The most annoying part, though, is that the shelf where they keep these looks like it holds max 5. I got a rain check for 6 as I was planning to pick some up to give as gifts but am wondering if my store will ever have 6 in at a time. Does anybody know if they will split the rain check if they still don't have enough in stock when I go back to get them? (I.e. If they only have three, will they honour the rain check then write up a new one for the other 3, or mark somewhere on the rain check that I have redeemed it for 3 and let me keep it to use again?)

First I refill my lysol no touch dispensor with soft soap and I don't have any issues with it coming out however you need to clean off the spot where it does dispense every so often :)

Second I was just wondering to those who say they get "Crap" offers do you load them if you think they are "Crap"???

Reason why I ask is because this is what I am thinking if you are NOT loading them, they will continue to give you them to you as you didn't load them and maybe they think you didn't see them.

I load my offers every week regardless if I will use them or not, that way they see that I use the ones I like and leave behind the ones I don't use. I have never seen a offer that I have loaded that I don't use repeat itself more than 2 times.

Just redeemed $150 in PC Points at No Frills. Earned them all at Atlantic Superstore and then had a huge stockup at NF.

10 lb bag of basmati rice, 10 lb bag of potatoes, lots of frozen veggies, many other things, and a couple treats just cause :)

Time to start collecting them again! Redeemed $180 in the first four months of having the program. Let's see how much I can get by Christmas!

I am saving ALL mine for Christmas ;)

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Originally Posted by alicia

Just redeemed $150 in PC Points at No Frills. Earned them all at Atlantic Superstore and then had a huge stockup at NF.

10 lb bag of basmati rice, 10 lb bag of potatoes, lots of frozen veggies, many other things, and a couple treats just cause :)

Time to start collecting them again! Redeemed $180 in the first four months of having the program. Let's see how much I can get by Christmas!

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I only have the PC plus app so no physical card and so the store says that is the reason that ONLY lane 5,10 and one of the express lanes can redeem points which is BULL considering what if all 3 tills are not open and they are short staffed and super busy - I either can't redeem or I have to wait which sucks

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Originally Posted by pamjcoupon

Do you have the PC plus card/app/cc? I have never had this problem ever??? And I know we shop at the same stores ;)


QUOTE=Peachykeen2007;5834020]knock on wood i haven't had any issues with points, the only issue i have is that apparently at the store closest to me only ONE till can redeem points off of the app, and that till would be a express lane that will NOT allow you to stand in it if you have more than the 12 items, so you have to go to another till for them to ring in everything, call a CS to suspend your transaction, pack all your stuff up and move to the express lane, interrupt anyone already standing in that line, get dirty looks

most stupid thing i have ever seen, I have emailed them and got the most crazy response, so I emailed back because I don't think they understood me and nothing back from them - might call, but it also makes me not spend my points! gonna see what i can rack up for the year and probably spend it all on Christmas gifts :) already sitting at a redemption of $140 and I haven't really spent extra or things that I don't buy every week already

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Originally Posted by Peachykeen2007

Second I was just wondering to those who say they get "Crap" offers do you load them if you think they are "Crap"???

Reason why I ask is because this is what I am thinking if you are NOT loading them, they will continue to give you them to you as you didn't load them and maybe they think you didn't see them.

I load my offers every week regardless if I will use them or not, that way they see that I use the ones I like and leave behind the ones I don't use. I have never seen a offer that I have loaded that I don't use repeat itself more than 2 times.

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I always add my offers regardless too. So far they've been in line with my shopping habits except this week and the fact that they are just small point offers :( I wish they'd bring back some big offers soon :)

Considering I thought my deals weren't that good this week. I was surprised at the checkout that I earned 17,000 points and I got a free pack of chicken (thanks to my son spending some of his birthday money on a computer game in the tax free event!)

My points gained were:
NN cake mix $1.17 reduced to $1.00/limit 4: 200 points per box
NN Parmesan $4.97 reduced to $4.47/ limit 4: 400 points per tub
Baked beans: 200 points per can
Maple syrup: 1000 points
Cauliflower 200 points/$1
Broccoli 100 points/pack
Mushrooms 200 points/$1
Apples 200 points/$1
Bakery 2500/$10
Naan bread 400 points/pack

woot! I love pc Plus! I had recieved the email and got the offer for the spend $100 get 20000 points yesterday so I used it and between that and the points for what i bought and the 7750 i had already from prior purchases I ended up with $40 to redeem (this is a lot for me so I was really excited). So earlier this evening my DD dropped her cell phone in the toilet :yikes:so I really didnt want to dish out full price for a new one so I got her to see if she could use my points to get a new one...well omg they let her! I really didnt think they would even though it wasn't from the Mobile Shop..... it was a pay as you go one from the display that you just buy through the regular cashiers but there was no problem with it...so she managed to get a regular $149.00 phone on sale for $119.00 tax free and minus $40 points and a $0.50 coupon I had from the pharmacy for $78.50 total = one happy momma :)

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Originally Posted by Pointsman

I picked one of those up at Zehrs yesterday, but not as good as your deal ... ie. I had only a $2 coupon, and wasn't a NoTax day ... still a good price to try out this gizmo! btw, has anyone who has this unit tried to refill the bottle with a different variety, eg. Softsoap, and if so, any issues with the pumping mechanism? Lysol refills are reg. $4.99 at Zehrs, whereas, 340ml bottles of Softsoap can be had for under a buck quite often at NoFrills ... even less per ml. when the huge refill containers are on sale. Just wondering, as I'm not thrilled with paying 5 bucks for 251ml soap refill. Thanks.

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Been refilling mine with the clear soft soaps (not the cream ones, but the antibacterial ones and the vanilla one). No issues. When we used this one with bead like things in it, then it eventually died.

Makes sense but I donno if it works that way? For me, I always loaded them, even if I only used one offer out of the 6. But I still got irrelevant offers for stuff I can't eat.

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Originally Posted by Peachykeen2007

First I refill my lysol no touch dispensor with soft soap and I don't have any issues with it coming out however you need to clean off the spot where it does dispense every so often :)

Second I was just wondering to those who say they get "Crap" offers do you load them if you think they are "Crap"???

Reason why I ask is because this is what I am thinking if you are NOT loading them, they will continue to give you them to you as you didn't load them and maybe they think you didn't see them.

I load my offers every week regardless if I will use them or not, that way they see that I use the ones I like and leave behind the ones I don't use. I have never seen a offer that I have loaded that I don't use repeat itself more than 2 times.

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I didn't know it was "no tax" day today. Will it be no tax tomorrow as well? That Lysol "no touch" deal sounds interesting! I'll need a 3rd address to send in the MIR.

Did anyone (other than you lucky ducks in NS) get any bonus offers this week? A few weeks ago I had 5 bonus offers....last week I has the 300 PTs WUB. PC low cal blue menu chicken noodle soup...this week? .....NADA! Mine were all pretty crap this week too...the in store offers were better than my personal. I got:
200 PTs Green Giant canned veggies.
200 PTs St. Hubert canned sauces
400 PTs exact maxi pads
100. PTs Clark beans
200 PTs /$1 spent on onions, bananas and peppers
500 PTs goldfish
500 PTs tres semme (this one might have been good if I had decent q's for it)

overall I don't see how these are becoming more tailored to me...The only canned goods I've ever bought at Provigo is soup (Campbell's deal). I don't usually buy my produce there...because it is very expensive. I have only had a handful of offers that are high points value on stuff I buy (PC coffee, meat,bakery,cheese)...and those were a few weeks back. I do really like the program...and try to work it to my benefit (have redeemed quite a few times)....but I feel like it was better early on. Anyone have two different accounts that can tell me if that's worthwhile?

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Originally Posted by tchaikca

Did anyone (other than you lucky ducks in NS) get any bonus offers this week? A few weeks ago I had 5 bonus offers....last week I has the 300 PTs WUB. PC low cal blue menu chicken noodle soup...this week? .....NADA! Mine were all pretty crap this week too...the in store offers were better than my personal. I got:
200 PTs Green Giant canned veggies.
200 PTs St. Hubert canned sauces
400 PTs exact maxi pads
100. PTs Clark beans
200 PTs /$1 spent on onions, bananas and peppers
500 PTs goldfish
500 PTs tres semme (this one might have been good if I had decent q's for it)

overall I don't see how these are becoming more tailored to me...The only canned goods I've ever bought at Provigo is soup (Campbell's deal). I don't usually buy my produce there...because it is very expensive. I have only had a handful of offers that are high points value on stuff I buy (PC coffee, meat,bakery,cheese)...and those were a few weeks back. I do really like the program...and try to work it to my benefit (have redeemed quite a few times)....but I feel like it was better early on. Anyone have two different accounts that can tell me if that's worthwhile?

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I got a bonus offer for 1000 points on Kellogg's protein cereal or protein shakes, and I'm in ON. I have purchased the cereal there once though, so maybe that's why :shrug:

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Originally Posted by sun_shine

I got a bonus offer for 1000 points on Kellogg's protein cereal or protein shakes, and I'm in ON. I have purchased the cereal there once though, so maybe that's why :shrug:

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I got the same bonus offer. And I did *buy* a box once before -- but actually, I used an FPC because there were some bonus points on it :) That was months ago and still haven't opened it yet - had a big stash of cereal ;)

Silk

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Originally Posted by Silk

I got the same bonus offer. And I did *buy* a box once before -- but actually, I used an FPC because there were some bonus points on it :) That was months ago and still haven't opened it yet - had a big stash of cereal ;)

Silk

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I haven't opened mine either lol. I got it on sale for I think $2.50 or $3 and used a $1.50 off coupon thinking it was a cheap enough price to try a new kind of cereal, but I have a huge stash of cereal as well.

Is there anyone doing the Plus program who has put their meal preferences down as *vegan*? If so, what kinds of offers are you getting? I eat limited fish/seafood and eggs and originally put mine as vegan but a PCPlus supervisor told me I would get more offers if I put *vegetarian*. However, I don't get many offers I can use so wondering what those who put *vegan* are getting.

Anyone? :)

Silk

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Originally Posted by tchaikca

overall I don't see how these are becoming more tailored to me.... I do really like the program...and try to work it to my benefit (have redeemed quite a few times)....but I feel like it was better early on. Anyone have two different accounts that can tell me if that's worthwhile?

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re 'offers tailered to me' ... this seems to vary, week to week; as I posted to this thread several weeks ago, at one point I got 17 offers that were exactly tailored to me, followed by a week with mostly different offers, but also almost 100% items I buy regularly over the last 6 months. Lately, I've been getting much fewer offers, that are maybe 60-40, or 50-50 tailored. Still its all gravy points to me.

re 'two different accounts ...worth it or not'; my wife also has an account, and has a PC Financial Mastercard that she scans; whereas I don't have one of those, but do have the debit card. We generally shop separately, and buy some common and some very different things, and its definitely worthwhile to have the two accounts, as we get very different offers, more than common ones. Every Friday morning we both Load them all, and email each other our offers, so whom ever is doing a 'shop' can easily check their phone to scan the right card if buying an item with pts. ie we each carry the other persons original PCPlus Rewards card. Hope that helps. ;)

Excellent idea! I am not going to load the 'crap' offers any more either. Typically, I just click on "load all offers" but I think your idea definitely has merit. We will see what happens!

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Originally Posted by Peachykeen2007

First I refill my lysol no touch dispensor with soft soap and I don't have any issues with it coming out however you need to clean off the spot where it does dispense every so often :)

Second I was just wondering to those who say they get "Crap" offers do you load them if you think they are "Crap"???

Reason why I ask is because this is what I am thinking if you are NOT loading them, they will continue to give you them to you as you didn't load them and maybe they think you didn't see them.

I load my offers every week regardless if I will use them or not, that way they see that I use the ones I like and leave behind the ones I don't use. I have never seen a offer that I have loaded that I don't use repeat itself more than 2 times.

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Originally Posted by Peachykeen2007

I only have the PC plus app so no physical card and so the store says that is the reason that ONLY lane 5,10 and one of the express lanes can redeem points which is BULL considering what if all 3 tills are not open and they are short staffed and super busy - I either can't redeem or I have to wait which sucks

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that might not be bull. i work at loblaws affiliate store and there are many issues with the app & scanners. there have been some fixes that have come down as well as some work arounds, but there are still some kinks to work out.

Went to loblaws with a list of 10+things. Shelves empty. no stock boys to ask if they had stock. Onewalks by sayshe'LL GEet someone. 10 mins later nobody came at all.Customer service desk called a stock boy. Said hed help if she was the one who called. He said no! She couldnt believe it! I told her about the crap service and no stock. She said im not the only one to give up on their program my frustration. Left buying two things.didnt scan my card at all.

This is what I get when I try to log in today. Hmmmmmmmmm I wonder what it could be?????

I get the same thing. can't get new offers through the app either. :mad:

I think that might just be a clever way to say "Our app's not working right now, check back later"

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Originally Posted by harbie

This is what I get when I try to log in today. Hmmmmmmmmm I wonder what it could be?????

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I got points today at Superstore around 5:00 pm with no problems.

Went to store today and they had kraft peanut butter 1kg to 500g sizes for $2.97. I have account offer for 800 points for 500g size but I picked 1kg. I guess that will save me about $3 rather than $0.80. Obviously got no points for that. But my store also had pf monaco cookies for $.94 cents with 200 points on each store offer and $1 off wub 2 coupon, I thought is a good offer. It might be just a West offer or might be my store specific.