Air Miles Shop the Block

Air Miles is running a Shop the Block promotion where if you earn at least 1AM at at different AM partners, you will receive bonus AM:

• Earn at least 1 Reward Mile at 2 partners, get 100 bonus AM
• Earn at least 1 Reward Mile at 3 partners, get 200 bonus AM
• Earn at least 1 Reward Mile at 4 partners, get 1000 bonus AM

You must go to https://www.airmiles.ca and opt in to receive the offer. The fine print says you can earn 1 normal AM, or a bonus AM to be eligible for the bonus Shop the Block AM. You can shop in store or through airmilesshops.ca. And it also looks like submitting a receipt through Air Miles Receipts will count as 1 offer. The fine print is very long. lol

ty for posting this @fegonia
I received this offer and already shopped at 2 different places online. Just slightly over $20.00 spent in both places, earned 1 AM on the amazon shop and 10 AM on the Walmart shop. ( Walmart is giving 10 AM for each $20.00 spend ) .
I will finish the other 2 spends at Metro ( I'll buy $20.00 worth of " something " to earn 1 AM ) and gas at Shell for the other.
That should give me the 1,000 AM for doing 4 partners. Easy Peasy ( I hope! )

Thank you for posting .

I am also doing this .

I did card link so 1 offer. Will be doing shell, Metro and not sure what will be my 4th

Looks like scanning a receipt counts as one partner...you could buy something like a cucumber and be done.

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Originally Posted by Laurabelle81

Looks like scanning a receipt counts as one partner...you could buy something like a cucumber and be done.

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good point!! ty

Hmmm, @Laurabelle81 after looking more closely at the conditions for receipts to qualify I see a catch. Buying a cucumber will not qualify.
They insist you buy only certain products to qualify, but sure seems tempting to buy a chocolate bar as a qualifying offer?
I'd swap chocolate over a cucumber! ha ha


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oh brother! This is very confusing now. The list above of the items they insist you purchase to qualify as 1 for the receipt scanning way are all dated November 2-15 when the STB promo is starting now ( December? )
Then I see this blurb in another site

AIR MILES Receipts

AIR MILES Receipts as a whole counts as one partner so if you buy multiple items from multiple participating stores only the first earning event counts as a partner.
Note:
Collector must shop and upload their receipt in App during the promo period (Dec 7-18) to be eligible
(i.e., receipt date must be between Dec 7-18 and must be uploaded in that time frame.
I do not have any Apps ( no cell phone ) and I don't know how to find out if I scan my receipt here
can I place it in as an attachment.
Then again, where do I send this attachment to? STB ? making myself crazy now. ha ha

@walkonby My list of products is different then yours, and have a valid date from Nov 30-Dec 13. I bought a cucumber yesterday and it worked.

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oh brother! This is very confusing now. The list above of the items they insist you purchase to qualify as 1 for the receipt scanning way are all dated November 2-15 when the STB promo is starting now ( December? )
Then I see this blurb in another site

AIR MILES Receipts

AIR MILES Receipts as a whole counts as one partner so if you buy multiple items from multiple participating stores only the first earning event counts as a partner.
Note:
Collector must shop and upload their receipt in App during the promo period (Dec 7-18) to be eligible
(i.e., receipt date must be between Dec 7-18 and must be uploaded in that time frame.
I do not have any Apps ( no cell phone ) and I don't know how to find out if I scan my receipt here
can I place it in as an attachment.
Then again, where do I send this attachment to? STB ? making myself crazy now. ha ha

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@walkonby you would have to get the app to do the receipt scanning. I don’t have the app but if I can’t come up with a partner for my 4th shop I will download the app and used it for this promo

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at Metro ( I'll buy $20.00 worth of " something " to earn 1 AM ) and gas at Shell for the other.

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I've done very little Air Miles since COVID, so I may well be rusty. With this caveat, my read is that since earning either a regular or bonus mile at Metro is enough to count as a partner, there are various items we can buy that give bonus miles while costing much less than $20; e.g. 4 miles for buying any Selection product by Wed.

At Shell, because I have a couple of months worth of Esso GCs to use up, I'm leaning toward buying either a $50 Visa or a $50 Amazon card, either of which will earn 20 bonus miles.

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I've done very little Air Miles since COVID, so I may well be rusty. With this caveat, my read is that since earning either a regular or bonus mile at Metro is enough to count as a partner, there are various items we can buy that give bonus miles while costing much less than $20; e.g. 4 miles for buying any Selection product by Wed.

At Shell, because I have a couple of months worth of Esso GCs to use up, I'm leaning toward buying either a $50 Visa or a $50 Amazon card, either of which will earn 20 bonus miles.

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@Arjon I chatted with Airmiles yesterday regarding Metro and Shell and was told it has to be 1 base miles by the agent. So I am not going to chance it

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@Arjon I chatted with Airmiles yesterday regarding Metro and Shell and was told it has to be 1 base miles by the agent. So I am not going to chance it

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Good to know. This doesn't match with what I remember from past STBs, but there's no way to know if the new owner has changed it or the agent misinformed you. I suspect it's the latter, but even if the risk is low, I'm not going to overpay by more than a couple of bucks on a $20 purchase anyway. So doing that to reduce the risk to 0 is certainly a viable option.

Fwiw, I decided to earn a regular mile at Metro, so spent just over $40 divided between our 2 accounts for things I would have bought anyway, just not right now. This was about $4-$5 more than I would usually pay for equivalent items.

I also ordered from Staples through airmilseshoops for both accounts, about $46 in total of which I might have been able to save $3-$5 if I had waited for better deals elsewhere.

I did a receipt scan on each account, with no overpay.

Will get 20L of gas at Shell, also no overpay. Still need to find one more partner for the other account. In any case, it looks like I will be able to earn 1000 miles x 2 accounts by spending $10 to maybe $15 more than I would have anyway.

So far I did

Cardlink ( My DD was going to a birthday party and needed a gift card so bought and pay using 2 different Master card).
Shell ( My DD works 1 hour away from home when she had to go in I split the gas on our 2 Account)
Am receipt scan ( I don’t load the app just for this for a partner.)

I think I am doing good since it’s stuff that we had to get no matter what

will do Metro later this week.

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Good to know. This doesn't match with what I remember from past STBs, but there's no way to know if the new owner has changed it or the agent misinformed you. I suspect it's the latter, but even if the risk is low, I'm not going to overpay by more than a couple of bucks on a $20 purchase anyway. So doing that to reduce the risk to 0 is certainly a viable option.

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@Arjon maybe you can buy something for $5 at Shell to earn the 1 Base mile .

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@Arjon maybe you can buy something for $5 at Shell to earn the 1 Base mile .

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That's my plan if nothing else comes to mind. What niggles at me is that I can't think of anything they sell that I normally buy so it could end up being a complete overpay or close. Still easily worth doing in the context of the full promo, but I don't have to like it. :p

@Arjon nice that you have 2 AM accounts to work with. @flemeth that was a smart move calling to check
on what the actual details were to qualify for these.

Imho, this STB has actually been the most reasonable one. Trying to find 7 sponsors like in past promos was
unattainable for most.
I made out rather well at Metro ( which was my 4th spot to qualify for the 1,000 BAM ).
Bought 3 items we actually needed, T.P. tuna and eggs. The internal giggles came from buying a single small
carrot for 0.44 and earning 3 AM on it and 5 or so fresh green beans costing 0.31, also earning 3 BAM on them.
:hahaha:Wish I had a pet rabbit....instead I ate the beans raw, added the carrot to the bag in the fridge.
Earned 1 base mile and 6 BAM. Spent $25.01 after taxes.

@Arjon and @walkonby Bonus miles got posted today. Doing the happy dance got the 1000 BAM on both account

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@Arjon and @walkonby Bonus miles got posted today. Doing the happy dance got the 1000 BAM on both account

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Thanks for the heads-up. Both our accounts too. :)

I don’t have many options for air miles now but still managed 200 miles. If I had of opted in on time I think I had 4 but by the time I noticed it was on it was late in the game.

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I don’t have many options for air miles now but still managed 200 miles. If I had of opted in on time I think I had 4 but by the time I noticed it was on it was late in the game.

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@lilo0003 I found this STB was the easiest to get 4 partners. I did

Shell, card link, AM receipt and Metro

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@lilo0003 I found this STB was the easiest to get 4 partners. I did

Shell, card link, AM receipt and Metro

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The new owners, BMO, seem to be quite aggressive in trying to encourage members to use the program more often. I had almost ignore Air Miles for quite some time, but STB looked easy enough for me to do it, which it was, and I have also done 3 or 4 more easy offers since, avg. 95-100 AM.

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Originally Posted by Arjon

The new owners, BMO, seem to be quite aggressive in trying to encourage members to use the program more often. I had almost ignore Air Miles for quite some time, but STB looked easy enough for me to do it, which it was, and I have also done 3 or 4 more easy offers since, avg. 95-100 AM.

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I would agree, I have earned 3x the air miles since the switch over past years. I have consistently had metro offers that’s are so easy and it’s my closest grocery store so not even out of my way.

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@Arjon and @walkonby Bonus miles got posted today. Doing the happy dance got the 1000 BAM on both account

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thanks @flemeth . I've been out of commission physically for a few days now but yes I checked and my 1,000
STB points were there.

I cannot find the thread where there was an AM offer that was only good to do on ONE day, March 12th.
It was get 20x the AM for each single AM that you earn.
Today I received the 160 AM in my account! woo hoo. That was for 3 separate transactions at Metro. $104.62, ( 5 AM )
$21.65 ( 1 AM ), $30.50 ( 1 AM ) and 1 at Shell $30.17 ( 1 AM ) . I redeemed many AM on the large Metro order so my
OOP there was only $4.62.
Tbh, I had forgotten I did this offer. Seeing those BAM was a relief.

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I cannot find the thread where there was an AM offer that was only good to do on ONE day, March 12th.
It was get 20x the AM for each single AM that you earn.
Today I received the 160 AM in my account! woo hoo. That was for 3 separate transactions at Metro. $104.62, ( 5 AM )
$21.65 ( 1 AM ), $30.50 ( 1 AM ) and 1 at Shell $30.17 ( 1 AM ) . I redeemed many AM on the large Metro order so my
OOP there was only $4.62.
Tbh, I had forgotten I did this offer. Seeing those BAM was a relief.

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@walkonby I also was happy to see that I was credited with 306 Airmiles I did not do a Metro shop but did buy gas and buy a gift card at Dollarama . Hope you buy the max pass for shell and Metro. I got one for shell and was debating on getting 1 for Metro but saw this morning that it’s sold out

@flemeth dang! How did I miss a new Max Pass Offer? I usually get the offer sent directly to me....oh well.
I would only have bought the Metro one this time though as the last 2 times I discovered we cannot fit enough fuel in
( only 1 vehicle here ) for the time frame it's offered in. You did awesome on the 20x! You had 15 regular AM ? Wow. Great going!!
Gas is pricey, so yeah that could do it.

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@flemeth dang! How did I miss a new Max Pass Offer? I usually get the offer sent directly to me....oh well.
I would only have bought the Metro one this time though as the last 2 times I discovered we cannot fit enough fuel in
( only 1 vehicle here ) for the time frame it's offered in. You did awesome on the 20x! You had 15 regular AM ? Wow. Great going!!
Gas is pricey, so yeah that could do it.

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@walkonby . I got 10 AM from Dollarama and 6 AM from Shell. We have 2 vehicles and my DD does a lot of driving to work so she uses more than 60 litres each week.