Robert D. Gibb is post­ing a stun­ning series of arti­cles on Air Miles on the forum. I found the series very use­ful and enlight­en­ing so I’m post­ing it on the blog as well.

Robert D. Gibb is a Con­tribut­ing Edi­tor (DRIPs) at the Cana­dian Mon­eySaver Mag­a­zine.

This is a good week for the Air­Mile Deals

1. Buy 5 Get 50 AM House Brands

Remem­ber: This promo lasts 2 weeks with most house brands also on sale in the first week only. I’ve looked at a few show­ing reg price fol­lowed by sale price (and % off in brack­ets for excep­tional items):

Safe­way Select Water 24s 5.99/4.99 (16.7%)
SS 12 Roll Paper Towel 16.49/12.99 (21.2%)
SS Dia­pers 28.99/26.99
Shower Cleaner 3.76/2.72 (27.7%)
Hand Lotion 525ml 3.99/3.44
Peanuts 2kg 8.95/7.49 (16.3%)
Pop­corn ker­nels 1.81 kg 4.49/3.99
SS Pizza 800g 7.99/6.99 (12.5%)
Per­o­gies 3.59/3.00 (16.4%)
Waf­fles 16s 4.36/3,50 (19.7%)
Tomato Clam Juice 3.79/3.19 (15.8%)
SS Cof­fee Beans 300g 7.59/5.99 (21.1%) Note: The Shop­ping Bags recently did a blind taste taste with SS out­per­form­ing Star­bucks. Yes, there is a man who watches the Bags!
Iced Tea Mix 1kg 5.34/3.99 (25.2%)

2. Week 4 (of 4) of the Spring Air­Miles Promo

This promo awards bonus AMs when you buy mul­ti­ples (usu­ally) of about 50 var­i­ous name brands. Buy 5 dif­fer­ent prod­uct offers and earn a bonus 50 AM ($6.50 value). I usu­ally find it hard to find 5 items I want and they’re often high-priced. How­ever, the front page of the flyer usu­ally has one or two induce­ment prod­ucts of bet­ter value.

a. Royale Bath­room Tis­sue Buy 2 @ 9.99 each Get 50 AM bonus ($6.50 value)

b. Dura­cell bat­ter­ies Buy 2 for 13.98 total Get 50 AM bonus (6.50 Value).

I actu­ally bought “b” with 10% off from the We Care coupons tak­ing it to $12.58 then $4 in PG coupons tak­ing it to $8.58. S9o an $8.58 expen­di­ture on some­thing I needed any­way got $6.50 worth of AMs.

Note: You have to present the coupon from the flyer to get AM credit for these par­tic­u­lar items. The House Brand offers are automatic.

Again, I am hard pressed to find 5 of the 35 items in the flyer I’d want to buy to get the bonus 50 AMs. There are a cou­ple worth men­tion­ing though:

Cattlemen’s BBQ sauce $2.99 Buy 1 Get 10 AM (value $1.30)French’s Spe­cialty Mus­tard 325ml $2.49 Buy 2 ( $4.98) Get 15 AM (value $1.95)
Nature’s Blend Bagels 6’s $2.50 Buy 2 ($5) Get 15 AM (value $1.95)

3. Name Brand Offers

Just a few of note:

Cap­tain High Liner Healthy Bake Fil­lets $4.99 Buy 2 Get 15AM ($1.95). I wouldn’t nor­mally look at this but there’s always coupons around for the Cap­tain. Add that in and We Care coupons and they’re around $3.80 each.

Sev­eral Kellogg’s prod­ucts in the $3.50 to $7.99 range. Buy 6 Get 50 AMs ($6.50). The $7.99 prod­uct is waf­fles. You’d do a lot bet­ter buy­ing the house brand waf­fles that are Buy 5 Get 50 on sale items this week.

Dove, Sauve, Lever, Axe $2.50 to $5.99 Buy 6 Get 40 AMs ($5.20).

The House Brands Buy 5 Get 50 AMs seems to be the best bet again this week.

OB