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.

Noth­ing out­stand­ing in the name brand Air­Miles pro­mo­tions this week except pos­si­ble Col­gate toothpaste:

Buy 12 @ $2 each ($24) and get 100 AMs (approx. $12)

So the effec­tive price is $1 per tube but I don’t see a great advan­tage there over sale prices elsewhere.

Last week’s Buy 5 House Brands Get 50 AMs still stands (see my April 25th post).

This week how­ever they do have the Spring Air­Miles Coupon Offers on. On this promo they have around 50 name brands. Buy­ing 2 of each earns bonus AMs (on high priced items usu­ally you only have to buy 1). These offers usu­ally earn 10 — 50 AMs each. If you buy 5 dif­fer­ent offers you earn a bonus 50 AMs ($6). I find the prices on these items to gen­er­ally not be very com­pet­i­tive com­pared to other stores. HOWEVER!

This Tues­day is “Spend $35 or more and get either 10% off or 10 times the base AMs”. (Trust me tak­ing the 10% off is the bet­ter deal than the 10Xs AMs). If you can com­bine that with the We Care coupons you can knock the price down more than 10% and get bet­ter value.

Also note: The Proc­tor and Gam­ble coupon book ($70) is in today’s news­pa­per. Luck­ily, liv­ing in a condo I’ll get about 10 books. P& G usu­ally fol­lows with AM pro­mos at Safe­way soon after these books come out. Great value.

OB

Good Hunt­ing To All!

Re: Trust Me

Base Air­Miles at Safe­way is 1AM/$20 spent.

So on $35 spent you’d earn the equiv­a­lent of 1.75 AMs. Tak­ing the 10Xs offer would get 17.5 AMs. At approx $0.12/AM that’s a value of $2.10 .

10% off of $35 is $3.50 which 67% bet­ter than $2.10.

So you’re far bet­ter off tak­ing the 10% off.

OB

Good Hunt­ing To All!