Airmiles Armchair Chatter

[Donald - my hero]

Just now getting around to checking my e-mail from the day and discovered this little thing

Book your hotel thru the Travel Hub and earn bonus miles! Now if only we had enough money to actually GO somewhere (having our sole source of advertising down for almost a month really put a crimp in our budget!)
Airmiles Travel Hub



***edited to add, thanks for all the well wishes. I'll just spend some extra time finishing up the last of the frozen goodies tomorrow cause you know, ice cream is good for EVERYTHING

 

[alohamom]

So smart! I wish I had thought of that, didn't know they give rain checks for air miles.

Gotta give credit to @ottawamom I do believe she did this a few weeks back. I am an AIr Miles apprentice compared to some of you warriors!

 

[alohamom]

@Donald - my hero I hope you are feeling better

 

[damo]

Just now getting around to checking my e-mail from the day and discovered this little thing
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Book your hotel thru the Travel Hub and earn bonus miles! Now if only we had enough money to actually GO somewhere (having our sole source of advertising down for almost a month really put a crimp in our budget!)
Airmiles Travel Hub



***edited to add, thanks for all the well wishes. I'll just spend some extra time finishing up the last of the frozen goodies tomorrow cause you know, ice cream is good for EVERYTHING

I wish they would add Drury Inn to that list.

 

[AngelDisney]

Had my list ready to go, all excited for our first Blue Friday event and BOOM out of nowhere I'm in the middle of a gastritis attack, no hunting trip for the duck!

Hope you get better soon!

 

[worldwidepayne]

I missed blue Friday because I had to have a colonoscopy and an endoscopy at the same time on Friday. I'm sad I missed it....bummer.

 

[damo]

I missed blue Friday because I had to have a colonoscopy and an endoscopy at the same time on Friday. I'm sad I missed it....bummer.

No pun intended????

 

[mort1331]

No WDW child tickets on AM web this am. Maybe the discounted are all taken now. Lets see how high they are when they come back online.

 

[marcyleecorgan]

It's frustrating when you go shopping and ALL the items with AirMiles on them have been completely emptied out of the store. I was like, what, are we preparing for the hurricane too? Nothing but shelves...

I know you can get rain-cheques, but for my local store, this means standing at the customer service desk for 10 minutes banging on a dingy bell that you have no idea if anyone cares you're dinging it. Then you have to wait a further 10 minutes for more than one cashier to page the Customer Service desk. Then you have to wait for the sloooooooooooooooooooow associate to log into their workstation and stare at you blankly. Then you have to explain, you want rain cheques. And then they slooooooooowly blink and answer, "those are locked up, upstairs. Have to go get them. Wait." and then MORE TIME passes while they go behind the locked door...

I swear it is literally the inspiration point for the sloths and the DMV in Zootopia.

Meanwhile, I seem to be waiting on 150+ AM points that should have hit my account yesterday... *sigh*

No WDW child tickets on AM web this am. Maybe the discounted are all taken now. Lets see how high they are when they come back online.

Good to know, I am sure the value will rise on the Child tickets as well. Time to reset my spreadsheet... again

 

[kuhltiffany]

If they even got all the items in the first place...I happened to be there when the "chip guy" (his words) was there yesterday morning, the organic Doritos never came in, and they had very limited stock of the organic Tostitos and Smartfood (It was only the new organic ones included in the promotion)! They were just putting the tags out and it was already 9:30 am...

It's frustrating when you go shopping and ALL the items with AirMiles on them have been completely emptied out of the store. I was like, what, are we preparing for the hurricane too? Nothing but shelves...

I know you can get rain-cheques, but for my local store, this means standing at the customer service desk for 10 minutes banging on a dingy bell that you have no idea if anyone cares you're dinging it. Then you have to wait a further 10 minutes for more than one cashier to page the Customer Service desk. Then you have to wait for the sloooooooooooooooooooow associate to log into their workstation and stare at you blankly. Then you have to explain, you want rain cheques. And then they slooooooooowly blink and answer, "those are locked up, upstairs. Have to go get them. Wait." and then MORE TIME passes while they go behind the locked door...

I swear it is literally the inspiration point for the sloths and the DMV in Zootopia.

Meanwhile, I seem to be waiting on 150+ AM points that should have hit my account yesterday... *sigh*



Good to know, I am sure the value will rise on the Child tickets as well. Time to reset my spreadsheet... again

 

[osully]

So just walked over to Sobeys to check it out. And next to nothing in stock. And not that it was sold out. They never carry most of the stuff. So bunch of maynards and chocolate for the kids, did put the smartfood in, but not the right stuff, manager manually entered so I couldnt go crazy. just $25 and ended up with 200am. Not too bad.

Yeah there were only 2 types of Delverde pasta - spaghetti and spaghettini based on the tags in the aisle. No wonder they sold out. Also we prefer penne or other bite size noodles, it was too bad they only had those 2.

 

[osully]

Yes why do they offer such great promos if it's only going to be 10 bags of popcorn in the whole store. At 5pm yesterday my Sobeys was busier than ever. Might need to do our shop at 7am before work next time it's Blue Friday, or see if my husband can pick up the good items. (Though I do admit it's fun to get the deal in person.)

 

[kimstang]

Just now getting around to checking my e-mail from the day and discovered this little thing
View attachment 268068
Book your hotel thru the Travel Hub and earn bonus miles! Now if only we had enough money to actually GO somewhere (having our sole source of advertising down for almost a month really put a crimp in our budget!)
Airmiles Travel Hub



***edited to add, thanks for all the well wishes. I'll just spend some extra time finishing up the last of the frozen goodies tomorrow cause you know, ice cream is good for EVERYTHING

They had the same deal in the summer and used it and I am likely going to use it again.

 

[DizzyDis]

I had pretty decent success at Blue Friday, don't have exact numbers, but spent about $250 and walked away with 630 AM posted, another 50 added to the receipt at customer service desk, another 35 added by phone and about 60 more that I had the printed coupons for that don't show on the receipt (they told me the same thing as customer service, keep the coupons and if they don't post after about a week, call on it). So, all in, about 775 AM, in large part due to pasta (15 packs, my kids would eat spaghetti every night if they could), one set of x3 Tostitos for 75 AM, 2 of the little hams for 50 (I think), and a few others. Since I also got real food (including 2 packs of family size ground beef to make spaghetti sauce along with the required veg) I am pretty happy with this return. And I limited to 2 ice creams (50 AM) and 4 Maynard's (also 50 AM), so I think that shows extreme restraint. Since our store ran out of the taco kids (1 for 25 AM) very early, they were manually giving you 25 AM for an Old El Paso kit. They were pretty picked over by 8 pm, but I still got 2.

So, all in all, I would try again, store was getting really busy at 8 pm when I was leaving, but was good earlier and only thing I would be positive on was no kids!! I walked from end to end of that store easily 10 times looking for random items (Organic Tostitos are with organic food, organic Smart pop is with produce, and regular versions of both are in chip aisle, are they trying to make it hard???)

Now to see if there are any WDW or other FL tickets I will be able to invest in!!

 

[osully]

Yikes Gas is way up lately. Wish Shell gave miles based on spend...

 

[Debbie]

I didn't bother with the Blue Friday sale, since my Sobeys is so far away and, more importantly, I do not need a thing. My shelves are full, the freezer is packed, and the pantry is overflowing! And, to add to that, we are going on vacation shortly. I'm hopeful that we get another Blue Friday when I actually can use the stuff. I'm not getting any AM this week.
Here's hoping that everyone who is not feeling up to their best feel better soon!

 

[momof2gr8kids]

No pun intended????

Ha! I was going to say the same thing as soon as I read it!

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Spent $65 at sobeys and earned 108 miles. All of my BYO paper coupons didnt go through on my receipt so had to go to customer service to get them added on. The My Offers coupons always take preference over the air miles offers at the checkout, it is strange.

Spent $150 at superstore and earned 37,000 points, which is $37.

Not a bad day shopping.

 

[osully]

Hmmm.. my cashier kept my Spend $75 get 20AM coupon. Wonder if they just don't show on receipts.

 

[M&M mom]

Not immediately -- they will need to "sell" the current stock. When the last discount came out it was a bit of time (tried to search for the exact date but had no success!) before AM dropped the "price". They've only just recently (this week sometime i think) "sold out" of the discounted tickets and the increased cost to redeem is HUGE. I would imagine it will take a fair bit of time till they are "gone" because many people are re-thinking their game plans now. Anyone else care to weigh in on this issue?

Thank you so much for your reply. We are going to WDW in March. Sure hope the tickets drop before then! How long does it take to get your tickets after you order them?