If you are planning to shop at Sobeys or Freshco in the coming weeks, you earn bonus Air Miles if you pick up their gift cards at Sobeys this week. Earn 45 Air Miles when you buy $100 in gift cards or 100 Air Miles when you buy $200 in gift cards. While the return is fairly low, around $10 on $200 in gift cards, it does bring down the cost of your groceries and every penny helps! Plus you can use them on future flyers with other Air Miles deals.
While Sobeys can be expensive, the gift cards can be used at FreshCo and other stores under the Sobeys banner including Foodland, Price Chopper and IGA or Thrifty Foods if you want to send it to someone in another province. If you have children away at college, they have Share & Care cards that you can top up using one card while they can use the other one to shop too.
This offer is valid at both Sobeys Ontario locations and Sobeys Urban Fresh stores. You can view flyers for these stores here for full details.
Another neat trick is that once you buy a Sobey’s Giftcard (and get your 200 miles) you can then turn around and use it to buy a gift card for practically anything else. — movie money, restaurants, Amazon, Netflix, liquor store, Best Buy… you name it. You just cant buy another Sobey’s card
Isn’t 95 Cash Air Miles worth $10? I dunno, but to me $10 off a $200 purchase isn’t so attractive, unless of course you were gonna spend over $200 worth in Sobeys or FreshCo groceries already, in which case purchasing the gift card and then using said card to pay for your groceries might make more sense.
You can use the gift card over multiple trips. I shop regularly at FreshCo but only spend around $50 so this is a month of shopping there. Since he drives right by Sobeys on his way home, makes sense to grab it and save the $200 (even if we used it over a longer period). I don’t know if I would go that far out of my way to buy one though since they closed the Sobeys closest to my home.