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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 09:46 AM #751
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 10:15 AM #752
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It's definitely a matter where YMMV depending on what you consider a good enough deal. I wonder though... is it possible you'd find more deals worth doing if you were to look more closely? That has been my experience, albeit with diminishing returns for incremental time and effort.
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 10:31 AM #753
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I hear you.
I racked up points for a couple of years, but I haven't shopped there on a regular basis for almost 3 yrs.
I also hate that you mostly have to shop on weekends for major point bonuses and redemptions. I don't feel like wasting my weekends running errands.
Give me better PC offers, I will be happy.
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 12:39 PM #754
Well except for the rare sale item I don't buy food there, I usually shop at No Frills. (My local SDM often has huge stocks of marked down going to expire soon food items which are really cheap, but that's about it.) I would be extremely hard-pressed to buy enough at SDM to qualify for one of their exclusive offers. And why would I go there to redeem a non-exclusive offer when it's already cheaper elsewhere?
And for other household items, especially stuff like OTC meds and supplements, I find that the regular price at Walmart is often better than the sale price at SDM.
Big scheme of things, the only real advantage you have with shopping at SDM is that it's extremely convenient - it's like going to Starbucks, they're all over the place.
So, nope.Last edited by The Red Viper; Tue, Feb 13th, 2018 at 12:44 PM.
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 01:33 PM #755
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 01:35 PM #756
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I can't speak to prices in your area, but in mine, while SDM is generally higher-priced, there are exceptions. Milk is an example that comes to mind. I don't buy a lot, but I get almost all of it at SDM where it's $4.27 for a 4-liter bag, the same as Walmart, No Frills, etc. BUT as a senior, I get 20% off if I buy it on Thur. which I usually do, and there's a 20x points coupon fairly often. So if I only buy one bag, I pay $3.42. With no offer, the 4.5 cents in points is negligible, but when I have the 20x milk one, this increases to 90 cents. And the old OPT program used to have wus offers as low as $10 that would stack, awarding even more points when I'm able to add enough other items to qualify.
And for other household items, especially stuff like OTC meds and supplements, I find that the regular price at Walmart is often better than the sale price at SDM.
Big scheme of things, the only real advantage you have with shopping at SDM is that it's extremely convenient - it's like going to Starbucks, they're all over the place.
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 02:57 PM #757
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Even though in the Shoppers flyers it says prestige cosmetics and fragrances are not included in seniors day, my local Shoppers gives me 20% off Clinique and Benefit. I noticed also the definition of senior varies....my local store says 55, but another store said 65 and I no longer shop there, as I am 55. While they are individually pharmacist owned, the prices do vary, from store to store.
I have a PC worldwide MasterCard that earns 20 points per dollar at loblaws owned grocery stories. Now that we are earning 15 points for every dollar at Shoppers, do PC MasterCards earn more at Shoppers now?
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 03:31 PM #758
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[QUOTE=barbis9;6867705]Even though in the Shoppers flyers it says prestige cosmetics and fragrances are not included in seniors day, my local Shoppers gives me 20% off Clinique and Benefit. I noticed also the definition of senior varies....my local store says 55, but another store said 65 and I no longer shop there, as I am 55. While they are individually pharmacist owned, the prices do vary, from store to store.
I have a PC worldwide MasterCard that earns 20 points per dollar at loblaws owned grocery stories. Now that we are earning 15 points for every dollar at Shoppers, do PC MasterCards earn more at Shoppers now?[/QUOTE)
You would get 15pts per $ at SDM using your PCO card. Then if you use your MC you would get 20 pts per $1 the points on your mastercard statement as you did before. I don't believe that changes at all.Last edited by Frugalbigmama; Tue, Feb 13th, 2018 at 03:32 PM.
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 03:48 PM #759
Milk is the same price at my No Frills, so irrelevant.
BUT as a senior, I get 20% off if I buy it on Thur. which I usually do, and there's a 20x points coupon fairly often. So if I only buy one bag, I pay $3.42. With no offer, the 4.5 cents in points is negligible, but when I have the 20x milk one, this increases to 90 cents. And the old OPT program used to have wus offers as low as $10 that would stack, awarding even more points when I'm able to add enough other items to qualify.
Yes, and "often better" means sometimes not better, and that's without factoring in the possibility of getting points at SDM.
If your purchasing pattern is such that you wouldn't be able to save much by shopping more at SDM, I'm not going to tell you you're mistaken.
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 05:15 PM #760
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Arjon, this describes me exactly, up till about a year ago. I didn't even bother getting an Optimum card before that, but was an avid PCPlus advocate. Frankly, the level of excitement on this forum under the Shoppers Drug Mart pinned topic made me dig deeper, and after I got my Optimum card and started reviewing the personal offers, I was shocked how much I could save there, through sale prices and some Big Points offers.
I ended up migrating just under 400,000 SDM points to the new PCO program, much of which was accumulated in the months leading to the merger.
Even got a couple of Google Home mini's there; not only lower price than WM and elsewhere, but helped me achieve a mega points WUS X$ offer, just before Christmas.
I buy almost all my paper products at SDM, as they are definitely the lowest in that area. Every single week, they have at least one featured item in the 1day or 2day Page1 section. Eg. Royale Facial Tissue, 6s $3.99.
And of course once I'd passed the 95,000 threshold, top conversion factor of 1.789 applied to everything on conversion day. Happy happy. Going forward, its 1.5 as we know, but that's ok.Last edited by Pointsman; Tue, Feb 13th, 2018 at 05:17 PM.
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 05:25 PM #761
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 06:50 PM #762
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 07:02 PM #763
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 07:27 PM #764
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Tue, Feb 13th, 2018, 07:52 PM #765
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I only realized I should learn to work the OPT program right around mid-2017, so you've been at it longer than I have. I'm not big on looking backwards, but there are times I wonder how much I missed out on because I under-estimated the potential for savings for years. I had a account since the 1990s. I don't have the records to prove it, but I strongly suspect I collected more points in the last 7 to 8 months than I did in the previous ~20 years.
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