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Air Miles - Changes to amount of miles required for gift cards, mostly increases!

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WHO wrote: Maybe with Safeway etc in Canada you can get a lot of easy AM, but in QC IGA si the only grocery store that gives AM and it's 1AM per 20$. Sometimes, 1 or 2 bonus miles on expensive items, and they seldom have 3X miles events. Let alone 5X (maybe once a year).

Very very hard to accumulate a lot.
Jean Coutu (drugstore) often has 10X on cosmetics, but their cosmetics are so damn expensive it doesn't really make it a bargain or deal.

It's really hard to accumulate easy AM, compared to a few years ago.
Now, with the toolbar searches gone, I won't even be able to obtain gold status (which has always been useless to me anyway).

I barely get Airmiles from Safeway, its for or less from Airmiles surveys and using my BMO account

Only time I score on Safeway is if they have a coupon for something I need that gets you good airmiles. last one was I got 50 for buyign toilet paper

Look online, there are plenty of ways to get airmiles. Signing up for certain newlestters, etc.
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Nov 22, 2010
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Even before the recent increase, the worth of an Air Mile was already a pittance. We don't have a safeway here, so it takes forever to earn enough even for a gift card. Why is it worth making the extra effort to fill up at shell (provided the prices are the same or higher everywhere else) when all you get is a measly $0.11 worth of an air mile for every tank between $20 and $49.99?
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Wow...that sucks :mad: I was just going to redeem some air miles for $20 Metro GC @ 140 air miles...I guess not anymore :evil:

I wish they had Sobeys GC available in Ontario not just Atlantic Canada :rolleyes:
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Man, 375 for $50 at Rona was a sweet deal (makes up for how overpriced that place is).
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brunes wrote: Sobeys Atlantic and Lawtons are still at the same rate - 140 for $20.

I am pretty sure Sobeys has a special arrangement with Airmiles, as one of their most active sponsors. I doubt they could change the rate without Sobeys approval.

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