Earn 50 airmiles at Dominion and A&P

[8BITJONES]

Earn 50 airmiles at Dominion and A&P this Saturday Sept 29 and Sunday Sept 30 but, you have to spend 100 dollars or more. Don't know if it's really worth it considering there prices are high compared to price choppers.

[dumbass]

Great!!!!

Do I get free mouse droppings with those air miles???

[8BITJONES]

bump a goood deal?

[brunes]

$100 for 50 AM is a cold deal. Thats $2 a mile.

During some Sobeys promos you can get AM for less than 0.50 / mile. Safeway routinely has even more crazy deals where you can get them for less than 0.30 / mile.

Just this past weekend Sobeys has for example - buy 2 cracker barrel cheeze (each $3.20 or so) and get 10 AM - so you could get 50 AM for ~ $35 this way. The cheese is best before Jan 08 and we use a block a week at least, and in addition it was on sale, so I got 10 blocks :P

[ultimate_rugal]

Are you serious? LoL!!

Do I get free mouse droppings with those air miles???

[tomtomtom]

^ is all over the news... just get frozen food and fresh produce, then u are okay

[Jaytee]

Last month they had a similar promo it was 100 air miles if you spend $100. Im still waiting for the points to show up in my account.

[dumbass]

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_15115.aspx

Food Warehouse Closed After Mice Infestation
Tuesday September 25, 2007
CityNews.ca Staff
A west end food warehouse had to be shut down for two days last week after a major mice infestation was discovered.

The dry goods facility on The West Mall in Etobicoke, which provides products to Dominion, A&P and Food Basics, was ordered closed last Monday after Toronto health inspectors witnessed rodents in the building. Two days later the warehouse reopened on a conditional basis and it was given a 'green pass' on Friday.

The closure was one of the health department's largest and reportedly led to temporary food shortages around the city. They conducted an investigation after receiving a complaint from a member of the public.


"They (inspectors) saw live mice running around and lots of....droppings observed and lots of packages chewed open by the mice. And there's a lot of evidence that the mice actually got inside some of the packages," reveals Jim Chan of Toronto Public Health.

Eight industrial-sized garbage bins full of contaminated food were reportedly thrown out during the cleanup last week. A pest control company was brought in to rid the facility of the rodents. Though it's unclear how many mice were in the warehouse one city worker suggested it was a significant infestation.

The storage area, which stocks 250 stores across the province, was last inspected in June and at that point was deemed satisfactory but officials admit rodent infestations can happen quickly in places where there's food and water.

A&P released the following statement:


"The company is confident there was no risk to consumers. To help prevent any recurrence the company has increased levels of inspections."

[purple_rabbit]

Meh there are worst things that will kill you, anyhow the majority of stuff is packaged, I highly doubt the rodents went inside the individual packaging

[cheapbastage]

You should always assume rodents and cockraches were crawling all over the packages you buy at the store. Imagine how many warehouses and truck loading docks some of these items passed through. At least most of this stuff is normally packaged inside another larger box for shipping. The ones to watch out for are the really large bulk packages, like you find at costco or bulk section of loblaws. Some people really freak out about drink pop directly out the can. Maybe not so much if you bought them at the grocery store, but maybe the vending machine was reloaded by some poopy-handed dude.

[googoo]

At my store(a&P Stouffville), we've had 1 mouse since we opened 5 years ago, and it came in off a truck .... that's in 5 years!

I think you're pretty safe

Brent

[greywolf501]

I worked at Food Basics for over a year on the night shift and I can tell you that you should wash everything you buy from the grocery store, I would come home in the morning feeling dirtier than when I worked at a gas station in the summer. You have no idea where that bottle of apple juice was, how many people touched it and how long it was sitting on the shelf. All of the stock on the lower shelves would get coated in dust and floor cleaning material that would get kicked up when they cleaned the floors at night, so after a couple months it would be caked onto the stock (alot of items located on the bottom shelves are products that don't sell quickly).

[brunes]

You should always assume rodents and cockraches were crawling all over the packages you buy at the store. Imagine how many warehouses and truck loading docks some of these items passed through. At least most of this stuff is normally packaged inside another larger box for shipping. The ones to watch out for are the really large bulk packages, like you find at costco or bulk section of loblaws. Some people really freak out about drink pop directly out the can. Maybe not so much if you bought them at the grocery store, but maybe the vending machine was reloaded by some poopy-handed dude.

There are way more germs inside your mouth and on your face, computer, doorknob, hands, etc. than on any pop can. I would not worry about it.

People are such germ-a-phobes nowadays. Germs are EVERYWHERE. You can't avoid them. Your body can handle it. People who use Lysol crap everywhere 24/7 are the ones who end up getting superbugs because when you kill "99.8 percent of germs", guess what, that 0.2 percent that are left that are not killable by disinfectant now have no competition in your body and they breed like crazy.