Airmiles Armchair Chatter

I have to agree with the slower than snails pace of collection recently. There has got to be something good in the works in the next few weeks.

Here's a new game Rexall Shoppers can think about. See how close to the required $ amount you can come when making your AM purchases at Rexall. ie spend $30 get 50AM how close to being just over $30 can you get your bill before taxes. It's a personal best kind of game that you can play and post your success. For instance today I used my spend $30 coupon purchased $31.41 worth of merchandise. (not a great day re game playing) I actually put back a dozen eggs when I realized I was going over the required total by too much.

Give it a try. It does require a calculator (well for me it does anyway). Happy hunting!

I did $40.52 before taxes and used the $5 off survey coupon and earned 60 for spending $40 (email Rexall offer), 50 for spending $30 (from the receipt) and 40 for spending $25 (card). I did put a carton of eggs back at the cash though.
 
I would check on that. Mine come every thursday. And about every 3 weeks i get a bonus set for 3 daya. Have not missed a week. Pc is my goto all the time and AM is only when i can cash big. And then I go real big.
Yes, I get the weekly "Load My Offers" from PC. I always get tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, mushrooms.....everything I buy every week. :thumbsup2
 
IME the $10 coupon stacks with the $5 off survey coupon and both those stack with the Air Miles coupons (in the Ottawa area).

Both of those are treated as cash tender rather than the way Rexall handles manufacturer coupons.

Thank you so much DilEmma, definitely good to know. To get the coupon, how much does your store require you to spend? Say you have $4 in manufacturer coupons and the $5 survey coupon. Do you need to spend $30 ($21 out of pocket) or do you need to spend more ie $34 ... or $35 ... or $39? I always shy away from promos that are up to the store's discretion.
 


Mine were fine until the end of the year, then they disappeared. :worried:

They may be testing different scenarios, however, I would call if you only get the one offer again tonight. We are getting the usual pcplus offers each week but I remember when my husband and daughter got cards, they both only had 1 offer for quite a few weeks.
 
I did $40.52 before taxes and used the $5 off survey coupon and earned 60 for spending $40 (email Rexall offer), 50 for spending $30 (from the receipt) and 40 for spending $25 (card). I did put a carton of eggs back at the cash though.

Wow, nice stacking. We don't have the receipt offer where I am and I haven't heard anything about the card other than reading it here. My daughter was receiving the Load and Go Offers for two weeks but didn't use them and then they stopped sending them.
 
Thank you so much DilEmma, definitely good to know. To get the coupon, how much does your store require you to spend? Say you have $4 in manufacturer coupons and the $5 survey coupon. Do you need to spend $30 ($21 out of pocket) or do you need to spend more ie $34 ... or $35 ... or $39? I always shy away from promos that are up to the store's discretion.

Let's say the offer was spend $25 to get 50 Air Miles (I don't think I've ever seen that offer but it's easiest for clarity). And say you buy a $25 jar of face cream. You have a $4 off coupon for the face cream. So at the cash your total is $21 before tax. You still need to spend $4 more to hit the $25 spend threshold.

Once you pick out that $4 item you can use the $5 off WUS $25 coupon. They take that $5 off as if you'd paid it in cash. So your OOP cost is $20 before taxes.

In my instance earlier today, my spend threshold was $40 to trigger all my offers. Sadly, I did not go to the trouble of using any manufacturers coupons. But I did use the $5 off WUS $25 and brought my pretax total to $35.52. And I still got the 60 Air Miles for spending $40. Even though I only spent $35.52 plus tax. (Rather $40.52 plus whatever taxes minus $5 - since they take the $5 coupon off after taxes).

Hopefully that's not too confusing. Known for verbal spew here.
 


Wow, nice stacking. We don't have the receipt offer where I am and I haven't heard anything about the card other than reading it here. My daughter was receiving the Load and Go Offers for two weeks but didn't use them and then they stopped sending them.

'The Card' was a bit frustrating since I read about it here while I was out of town. When I got back I asked at the cash with no success. A week later a different cashier pulled it out and scanned it that day. I've only been able to use it once more (today). And it's expiring in a few days.

Just to be clear, the 'Receipt Coupon - Spend $30 Get 50)' is printed out on the bottom of the receipt when you shop on Friday, Saturday or Sunday AND you do not trigger the weekend bonus offer. I usually buy a $0.69 box of tissue separate from my main order. Or often I'm just going in for the box of tissue because I have a hard time spending more than $30 each week. The Receipt Coupon is only good from Monday to Thursday the week immediately following the weekend on which it was received.

All that said, I've been to Rexall the last two weekends and did make the weekend bonus offer and still had that coupon printed on the bottom of my receipt. I'm hoping it lasts.
 
'The Card' was a bit frustrating since I read about it here while I was out of town. When I got back I asked at the cash with no success. A week later a different cashier pulled it out and scanned it that day. I've only been able to use it once more (today). And it's expiring in a few days.

Just to be clear, the 'Receipt Coupon - Spend $30 Get 50)' is printed out on the bottom of the receipt when you shop on Friday, Saturday or Sunday AND you do not trigger the weekend bonus offer. I usually buy a $0.69 box of tissue separate from my main order. Or often I'm just going in for the box of tissue because I have a hard time spending more than $30 each week. The Receipt Coupon is only good from Monday to Thursday the week immediately following the weekend on which it was received.

All that said, I've been to Rexall the last two weekends and did make the weekend bonus offer and still had that coupon printed on the bottom of my receipt. I'm hoping it lasts.

Awesome "card", I wish I had at least asked but honestly forgot about it lol. The "Receipt Coupon" I haven't seen here since summer 2015. Last summer, 2016, ottawamom had mentioned it on this thread, so I tried 5 or 6 stores before I packed it in. I'm just west of Toronto, tried Toronto as well. We get a $5 off when you spend $25 coupon valid for the following week but it says not combinable with other Rexall coupons so it's that or the survey coupon. Only thing it says me is printing the survey coupon lol.
 
Let's say the offer was spend $25 to get 50 Air Miles (I don't think I've ever seen that offer but it's easiest for clarity). And say you buy a $25 jar of face cream. You have a $4 off coupon for the face cream. So at the cash your total is $21 before tax. You still need to spend $4 more to hit the $25 spend threshold.

Once you pick out that $4 item you can use the $5 off WUS $25 coupon. They take that $5 off as if you'd paid it in cash. So your OOP cost is $20 before taxes.

In my instance earlier today, my spend threshold was $40 to trigger all my offers. Sadly, I did not go to the trouble of using any manufacturers coupons. But I did use the $5 off WUS $25 and brought my pretax total to $35.52. And I still got the 60 Air Miles for spending $40. Even though I only spent $35.52 plus tax. (Rather $40.52 plus whatever taxes minus $5 - since they take the $5 coupon off after taxes).

Hopefully that's not too confusing. Known for verbal spew here.

I understand most of it lol. You are very clear, I just use coupons a lot so I'm trying to figure out where they are going to fit in. So in order to get the $10 promo card, you would normally spend $30, then the survey coupon as tender, pay $25 oop and receive the $10 card. Is that correct? I know this weekend you'd likely spend $40 and get the airmiles as well, but if you didn't have the airmiles card, you'd spend $30.

Just to clarify my experience, in the first part of your scenario, for the $25 jar of face cream and $4 manufacturer coupon, I have always been able to pay $21 and still get the airmiles. You could also have a manufacturer free product coupon and pay nothing and get the airmiles, I've done that a few times. The survey coupon however reads off the subtotal, so as you stated, you need to spend $25 after manufacturer coupons to use it.

Thank you for clarifying, knowing the $10 promo card is just treated as tender on the next purchase makes it more enticing. I may have to reconsider and try it soon.
 
I feel your pain...

lol, I used to be very envious of my family members out West on how many airmiles they could collect at Safeway (times have changed now). I learned to deal with it, life is not "fair" and that's ok lol. I can be happy for you :)
 
I understand most of it lol. You are very clear, I just use coupons a lot so I'm trying to figure out where they are going to fit in. So in order to get the $10 promo card, you would normally spend $30, then the survey coupon as tender, pay $25 oop and receive the $10 card. Is that correct? I know this weekend you'd likely spend $40 and get the airmiles as well, but if you didn't have the airmiles card, you'd spend $30.

Just to clarify my experience, in the first part of your scenario, for the $25 jar of face cream and $4 manufacturer coupon, I have always been able to pay $21 and still get the airmiles. You could also have a manufacturer free product coupon and pay nothing and get the airmiles, I've done that a few times. The survey coupon however reads off the subtotal, so as you stated, you need to spend $25 after manufacturer coupons to use it.

Thank you for clarifying, knowing the $10 promo card is just treated as tender on the next purchase makes it more enticing. I may have to reconsider and try it soon.

No, thank you for clarifying.

My bold above. A cashier helped me with this last year when I started collecting with strategy. She did a test and was surprised that the manufacturer coupons ruined the subtotal for my offer coupons. Maybe she was just talking about the $5 off $30 spend coupon.

I was surprised that Rexall treated manufacturer coupons differently than Shopper's Drug Mart did.

i am going to test this out asap.

Thanks again!
 
No, thank you for clarifying.

My bold above. A cashier helped me with this last year when I started collecting with strategy. She did a test and was surprised that the manufacturer coupons ruined the subtotal for my offer coupons. Maybe she was just talking about the $5 off $30 spend coupon.

I was surprised that Rexall treated manufacturer coupons differently than Shopper's Drug Mart did.

i am going to test this out asap.

Thanks again!

Yes, just to confirm, last Saturday's 100am wus $50, spent $50, used $4.50 coupons (subtotal $45), $5 survey coupon, so $40+ oop, received 100am plus another 30 for bandaids, base miles etc.
The weekday email ones work that way as well, can't confirm your receipt coupon but it should work the same way as the weekly emailed one so should work.

My preferred Rexall shop costs $20...spend to whatever promo limit, coupons to reduce to $25, then $5 survey coupon.
 
My PC Points offers haven't changed at all. I just received 17 new offers, plus the three I saved from last week to add into this week. And I got 3 really good bonus offers, but I might have to wait to use them next Wednesday before they expire.

I plan on hoarding these points too and cashing them in for Mastercard / VISA gift cards to help offset travel costs of flights.
 
Just back from Sobeys, 64 airmiles, not spectacular but I'll take it, 4 bags of brussel sprouts (12am), 12 cans of beans(30am), other 22am base and personal offer. I'll likely go back tomorrow, giving others a chance to get some.
 
lol, I used to be very envious of my family members out West on how many airmiles they could collect at Safeway (times have changed now). I learned to deal with it, life is not "fair" and that's ok lol. I can be happy for you :)

Yes...the airmiles at Safeway are not great in the west anymore. Last week I was lucky enough to get a bonus 30 for spending 50.00 through an email offer they sent me. I see this week we get spend 95.00 get 95 miles. But that's only good until Sunday night. I might have to take a look at their flyer and see if I can spend the 95 plus maybe get a couple of the other offers they have this week. Last week would have had none for me if I wouldn't have had my email coupon loaded onto my card. By the way...I'm in northern Alberta...no rexall near me which bums me out seeing all the great airmiles they have :sad1:
 
LOL
I've had Alberta envy quite a few times. And East Coast envy.
Though, you're right. I think Ontario was on a roll for a while. I guess that's why we should jump on the offers while they last.

Overall, I'm grateful for rewards programs. And still find some good value in many of them. It's better than paying store prices with no benefits I guess.
 
Just back from Sobeys, 64 airmiles, not spectacular but I'll take it, 4 bags of brussel sprouts (12am), 12 cans of beans(30am), other 22am base and personal offer. I'll likely go back tomorrow, giving others a chance to get some.
i think I'll probably mirror your shop. Black beans and lentils are quite a hit here. And personally I love brussels sprouts. Frozen, they are great for supplementing the sorry sack I see in the grocery store.
 

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