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Shoppers Drug Mart Canada Transfer Your Prescription and Get 60,000pts or $100

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Are you get­ting any­thing from the place you cur­rently fill your pre­scrip­tions?  If you said no then Shop­pers Drug Mart has an offer for you.  If you trans­fer your pre­scrip­tion to their phar­macy you will get a choice of either 60,000 bonus Opti­mum points or $100.  The rewards are given as a coupon book.  If you choose the points you get a book­let with 10 coupons for 6000 bonus points per pre­scrip­tion fill and if you choose the $100 you will get a coupon book with 10 coupons for $10 per pre­scrip­tion fill.  Not a bad deal at all.  To trans­fer your pre­scrip­tion call 1–800-SHOPPERS.  It says it’s a lim­ited time offer but I couldn’t find an end date for the promotion.

Thanks to DGirl for post­ing the details of this offer.

37 Responses to “Shoppers Drug Mart Canada Transfer Your Prescription and Get 60,000pts or $100”

  1. sweetmomma

    This is a really cool pic! Kudos to those of you who can take advan­tage of this offer.

  2. dphil

    The only thing is that Shop­pers is one of the most expen­sive places to fill pre­scrip­tions. So you might be get­ting points in return but it would have been money saved get­ting your pre­scrip­tion some­where else.

  3. vanessa

    i called shop­pers yese­ter­day re this offer and they told me it’s not avail­abe in Ontario. so sad.

  4. bylo

    > it’s not avail­abe in Ontario

    Because the Ontario Col­lege of Phar­ma­cists has ruled that it’s uneth­i­cal to offer induce­ments on pre­scrip­tion drug pur­chases. Does SDM offer points or senior’s dis­counts on pre­scrip­tion drugs? (I sus­pect not for the same rea­son, even if they do offer points for using their credit cards to make those purchases.)

    Actu­ally sur­prised that the other provinces allow this.

    And yes, what you save in SDM points by switch­ing you’ll more than lose in SDM’s much higher dis­pens­ing fees.

  5. hogama

    hmmm… inter­est­ing about the higher prices & dis­pens­ing fees…

  7. 7mountains

    What are other peo­ple pay­ing for dis­penc­ing fees in other phar­ma­cies out west???? I do agree that SDM is expen­sive, $9.85 per pre­scrip­tion. My DH med­ica­tion every month is $100, and that is a lot of points over the run of a year.

  9. Donna

    LOL ! the pics. that are put on the blog page to go with the deals are just .….outstanding.…..I chk . the blog page some­times just to see what new pics. have been posted , fave. being the “baby deals” ones, hats off to you guys !! :)

  11. Kerri

    Oh wow, this isn’t worth it unfor­tu­nately for me. Costco is waaaaaay cheaper so that $100 is noth­ing com­pared to the money I save by going to Costco. If you don’t have a Costco card you might want to spend the $50 a year if you have a pre­scrip­tion. When I get my meds at Costco I pay $133 a month as opposed to the $187 I was pay­ing a month at Shopper’s!!! That is a HUGE difference!!!!

  12. FreebieChick

    Yes, SDM is pricey to fill pre­scrip­tions! I get my pre­scrip­tions at Wal­Mart and the fill­ing fee i believe is some­where between $3 & $6 so at least $4 cheaper than SDM. Also, i saw a few posts above men­tion­ing receiv­ing points whicj i’m assum­ing means SDM Opti­mum pts but you don’t get Opti­mum pts for pre­scrip­tions, sad but true :O(

  13. honeybee.

    I just got a pre­scrip­tion at a small drug­store and they charged me $12
    for fill­ing fee! I went there think­ing they would be beter than other places!Guess I won’t be going there again for the refill.

  15. Natalka

    Hm, can’t add to what I already wrote…

    I wanted to add that I wished it said on the slip which comes with the pre­scrip­tion how much the dis­pens­ing fee is, and how much the drug. Yes, I know one can ask, but…

  16. Tiffany

    I already get my rx’s Filled at shop­pers. And I get SDM points on my Pre­scrip­tions but I am in BC

  17. barginshopper

    Just so every­one knows you can get your pre­s­crition filled at Costco even if you do not have a mem­ber­ship. My mom gets her pre­s­critions filled at Costco all the time. This might be just in Ontario but I am not sure. May save peo­ple a lot of money.

  18. Marketing_Guy

    Re: bar­gin­shop­per
    Excel­lent point about Costco — they can’t deny you access to their phar­macy if you’re a mem­ber. On the US side of the bor­der, Costco actu­ally scored big when Obama encour­aged Amer­i­cans to fill their pre­scrip­tions at Costco to take advan­tage of the sig­nif­i­cant cost sav­ings. So for any­one with a Costco nearby — mem­ber or not — check out their phar­macy and take advan­tage of the cheap­est dis­pens­ing fees around.

  19. Marketing_Guy

    Sorry, meant to say if you’re NOT a mem­ber they can’t deny you access.

  20. Sally

    How much is their dis­pens­ing fee? We have a pretty lucra­tive drug plan through my hus­bands work. It would take a long time to even use the 100$ coupons.

  21. mlongboat

    Last Time I got a script filled at costco the fee was $4 and change and the meds were cheaper than zellers. (Ontario)

  23. Tara

    Just want­ing to com­ment on this cuz I LOVE THAT PHOTO!!!! lol

  24. Alex

    I found the pic­ture to be dis­turb­ing. Just my opinion.

  25. Abby

    I know here in Ontario it’s a $4.11 dis­pens­ing fee to get pre­scrip­tions filled at Costco, whereas Shop­pers is $11.99. Also, Shop­pers here tells me that I can­not col­lect opti­mum points on pre­scrip­tion fills. I used to get all my pre­scrip­tions filled at Shop­pers when I was in school because it was con­ve­nient and I could eas­ily get my pre­scrip­tion trans­ferred to Shop­pers in dif­fer­ent cities. Now that I’m back home though I think I’ll try to fill my pre­scrip­tions at only Costco (espe­cially great if you don’t have a drug plan!).

    The Toronto Star has table for dis­pens­ing fees in Ontario: http://www.fiscalagents.com/thestar/dis_fee.shtml

  26. Abby

    Woops, yeah, the Toronto Star table is for south­ern Ontario.

  27. Lulu

    THAT pic is so dis­gust­ing and so is Shop­pers Drug Mart.…they treat their employ­ees like crap and really do not care about cus­tomer ser­vice just $$…my opinion.

  28. kerry

    I’m on a med­ical plan and get my scrips for free,so I just trans­ferred my pre­scrip­tion from save on foods to shoppers,just to get the booklet.Im already 6000 pts ahead

  29. kerry

    Gross picture,reminds me of those ger­man dead peo­ple that they pose and display.

  31. Anonymous

    I still think it’s highly unfair for Ontario res­i­dents. They should offer us some­thing else if they can’t give us the Opti­mum points.

  33. Jerry

    I just don’t under­stand how peo­ple can be so eas­ily sway’d by a points pro­gram. You are just a num­ber to SDM’s mass cor­per­ate giant. They want to suck you into their Phar­macy so that you will think the prices are so great…actually they bank on it. Take a look at their reg­u­lar prices and com­pare before you jump in with both feet.
    Like the old say­ing goes…you get what you pay for. A $3 wal­mart script fee is great but what are you get­ting for that $3? How many Wal­mart phar­ma­cists will spend the time to talk to you about new med­i­cines? I pay $11 at a small LOCAL phar­macy and appre­ci­ate that they know me and my fam­ily. I can call them with a ques­tion they know exactly who I am, what I take and if my Dr has made an error. I am happy to pay for great ser­vice that you won’t find at an SDM or a Walmart.

  34. Sue

    The promo ads are a bit mis­lead­ing. The expla­na­tion at the top of this page is clearer.

    The ads in the news­pa­pers made me think I’d get 60,000 just for trans­fer­ring one pre­scrip­tion. Good thing I called. Not worth it for me.

  35. Anthem

    This offer is soo retarded. What over­paid exec came up with the bs pr stunt? They could have used the pro­mo­tion money to lower dis­pens­ing cost which is at $9.15 where I work, or pay their employ­ees a decent wage. I make $10.95/hour as a tech so I’m basi­cally mak­ing what a stocker/burger flip­ping job would pay except I have to put my name on every­thing I dis­pense and I’m respon­si­ble for peo­ples well being –sic–

    I wish I worked for Costco, LOL.

    Oh, and if they were hop­ing on a unstop­pable amount of trans­fers, we had 7 since the pro­mo­tion came into effect = EPIC FAIL =

  36. grayad

    Ontario is the only province in Canada that is not allowed to give opt. points on pre­scripts :( sorry people:(

    Adam. SDM employee 134.

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