Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[tinkerone]

I can't remember who was the person who does the Nielson Homescan. I just got the offer to join however I don't know if its worth the time or what the rewards are. Hoping the person who mentioned it can chime in and help me decide if this is truly for me.

 

[flyingjay]

I had a good Blue Friday this morning.

I did my shop and I got 330 AM for my $89.26 shop. I got to my car and thought...I only need another $15ish (that subtotal is after tax) and I'll get the $100/100 AM bonus.

I went to customer service and they were happy to help. I bought a jug of milk and some more crispy minis (my wife and kids love them) and brought it back to customer service. I had to wait almost 10 minutes because a lady was redeeming her lottery tickets.

***side note*** She probably had 20 crosswords (at least that's what they looked like) that she redeemed. I didn't know that was a thing! How many lottery tickets did she have to buy to redeem 20 lottery tickets?!?!? I was glad she had that many winners...but how many losers did she have? Yikes!

I gave the very kind (and patient) Sobeys Customer Service rep the rest of my groceries and he manually added the 100 AM.

Total shop today: $105.82
Total AM: 496

 

[TFC_UNTIL_I_DIE]

Note to Airmiles --I want to be a loyal customer,,,, but the offers since Jan have been "toggled" and I am actually think of looking at the "PC / Optimum option.
I give it one more week and then something has to change.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Hugs Mel

Its the vendors like Sobeys, Metro and Rexall that buy the points from Air Miles and then give them to you. I feel the same way - why are you carrying AM but not giving any out? Why is my Stittsville Sobeys store full of little Air Miles blue tags that don't actually give any AMs? Your prices are high and now you are getting cheap on AMs. I have a No Frills opening 5 minutes away and a Walmart within walking distance. I want to be loyal but you are driving me away!

 

[montrealdisneylovers]

No Blue Friday for us unfortunately. IGA improved a little since previous years and Rachelle-Béry (grocery store not health store) has some goid promotions once in a while. I live in Lachine so I sometimes drive to ON when Foodland has really good offers. It’s a 1h drive each way for me but worth it if I can get more than 200 AM (my best times were 750-800 AM).

Where in Ontario? We often drive to Hawkesbury but I have never seen a Foodland there.

 

[Pumpkin1172]

Another Blue Friday Report...I did a shop over my lunch break...spent 112.00 and got 426 airmiles. I might maybe go back for another small shop ( not another 100.00 ) after my closing shift at the second job for a few items I think we might use yet. I do have a loaded offer of spend 70.00 get 20 Airmiles. Not sure if it will even add up to that. But I wanted to " think " if we really needed those items.

 

[Aladora]

All you guys getting Blue Friday deals has me green with envy!

 

[cari12]

Did my Blue Friday shopping on my lunch - $108 for 374 AM.
It would have been 100 AM more if my store had more than just creme eggs and mini eggs for the Cadbury spend $30 get 100 AM. The cashier chalked it up to the store closing soon so they don't necessarily get everything. I don't need that much of just those 2 items so i took the loss.

 

[Donald - my hero]

I can't remember who was the person who does the Nielson Homescan. I just got the offer to join however I don't know if its worth the time or what the rewards are. Hoping the person who mentioned it can chime in and help me decide if this is truly for me.

That would be the Duck! Just sitting here looking at the Visa Gift cards i got for doing some quick surveys during Nov & Dec .. i did one a week for on-line shopping & the other for dollar stores, every Sunday for the previous week, and they took me a MAX of 5 minutes each -- total pay out for those? $52 and I have a $25 Visa card from keeping a weekly food diary (oh my, sooo much work for THOSE!) Just looked at my account and i also received 1400 points for each category. Mainly i redeem for Cineplex vouchers and i tend to get a $25 gift card once very 9 months or so but that's only because i don't like to wait till i have enough for anything else I'm not sure if i can shoot you a link to the rewards since i need to be logged in to see them but they range from $10 gift cards for Cineplex & Apple for 8,000 points to a Play Station 4 for 383,000 points. Reference point: I cashed out 17,000 for $25 Cineplex on August 15, 2017 & January 1,2018 and i currently have 7,135 -- i cash out as soon as i have enough for that reward. I was moved to scanning thru an app on my phone and it's much easier -- takes me an extra 5 minutes maybe when we get home from shopping, i scan, hubby puts away. I get 225 points a week plus a monthly bonus of 250 if i scan every week. I do several surveys a week that range from 150 - 300 points -- you NEVER get screened out to a lower reward, if i don't qualify i still get the full amount quoted. I know some people don't like having their shopping habits tracked but heck, Airmiles & PC, and every other reward programme I'm part of know what i buy so it doesn't bother me.

 

[tinkerone]

That would be the Duck! Just sitting here looking at the Visa Gift cards i got for doing some quick surveys during Nov & Dec .. i did one a week for on-line shopping & the other for dollar stores, every Sunday for the previous week, and they took me a MAX of 5 minutes each -- total pay out for those? $52 and I have a $25 Visa card from keeping a weekly food diary (oh my, sooo much work for THOSE!) Just looked at my account and i also received 1400 points for each category. Mainly i redeem for Cineplex vouchers and i tend to get a $25 gift card once very 9 months or so but that's only because i don't like to wait till i have enough for anything else I'm not sure if i can shoot you a link to the rewards since i need to be logged in to see them but they range from $10 gift cards for Cineplex & Apple for 8,000 points to a Play Station 4 for 383,000 points. Reference point: I cashed out 17,000 for $25 Cineplex on August 15, 2017 & January 1,2018 and i currently have 7,135 -- i cash out as soon as i have enough for that reward. I was moved to scanning thru an app on my phone and it's much easier -- takes me an extra 5 minutes maybe when we get home from shopping, i scan, hubby puts away. I get 225 points a week plus a monthly bonus of 250 if i scan every week. I do several surveys a week that range from 150 - 300 points -- you NEVER get screened out to a lower reward, if i don't qualify i still get the full amount quoted. I know some people don't like having their shopping habits tracked but heck, Airmiles & PC, and every other reward programme I'm part of know what i buy so it doesn't bother me.

Thanks for the info. I think maybe I will give it a try. What can it hurt and I can always use some good gift cards.

 

[isabellea]

Where in Ontario? We often drive to Hawkesbury but I have never seen a Foodland there.

Vankleek Hill, exit 17 on the 417.

 

[montrealdisneylovers]

Vankleek Hill, exit 17 on the 417.

Thank you. That’s just a bit further. I will look into that!

 

[kitntrip]

Here's my blue Friday AM haul. Spent $274ish and received 897 airmiles. I'm pretty pleased.

 

[TFC_UNTIL_I_DIE]

Looks like someone managed to get a copy of the Manitoba Spring Mega Miles offers....

 

[Donald - my hero]

Looks like someone managed to get a copy of the Manitoba Spring Mega Miles offers....

Please tell me I'm not the only one who zoomed in really tight & studied the coupons closely while muttering "please let there be 5 different places i can shop!!"

 

[cari12]

Please tell me I'm not the only one who zoomed in really tight & studied the coupons closely while muttering "please let there be 5 different places i can shop!!"

I did! I only counted 4 different sponsors I could use on that one, hoping BC has a 5th I can use. Looks like it says 5 sponsors, not 5 offers like STB. And hopefully there will be a cash miles offer too since after today’s blue Friday I will be prepared!

 

[bababear_50]

Please tell me I'm not the only one who zoomed in really tight & studied the coupons closely while muttering "please let there be 5 different places i can shop!!"

I zoomed in--here in Ont ,,,I am hopeful for a
1. Rexall offer
2. Sobeys offer
3. Shell offer ---but with my small car I may have to ask a friend to fill up their big car-truck
4. LCBO offer--but not a fancy 100.00 bottle of champagne
5. Foodland OR Metro offer
Hugs Mel

 

[isabellea]

Please tell me I'm not the only one who zoomed in really tight & studied the coupons closely while muttering "please let there be 5 different places i can shop!!"

I did zoom in. I think I’ll be okay for the 5 merchants.

 

[alohamom]

Hopefully there will be other offers on line in conjunction with the booklet

 

[hdrolfe]

Please tell me I'm not the only one who zoomed in really tight & studied the coupons closely while muttering "please let there be 5 different places i can shop!!"

I did! I only see 4 for me, but am hoping there will be a bit difference for the other provinces. Like Safeway will be ? Metro? in Ontario? Then I could do 5.

 

[tinkerone]

Could anyone read the Shell coupon? I'm trying to figure out if it will work for me but I can't zoom in enough to read......these old eyes, lol.