Holt Renfrew Canada is launching a new hr2 store in March, 2013. The retailer hopes to provide “new and unique designer product selection at great value”. The first hr2 store will open in Quebec at Quartier DIX30 with another location planned for Ontario in early 2013. Ultimately, Holt Renfrew hopes to expand to Calgary where they feel hr2 is a perfect fit among the outlet style malls and younger population.
Will you shop at the new hr2? Do you think it will equal the existing Holt Renfrew stores?
Save On Foods have decided to no longer allow stacking according to an email from their Head Office. They will still allow the stacking of one Overwaitea coupon with one manufacture coupon. View the discussion about this change on our forums here.
Johnson & Johnson Canada has announced that their website Living Well Canada will be shutting down on December 3, 2012. Here are the fine details from the livingwell.ca webpage:
An Important Message
for LIVING WELL Members
On December 3, 2012, LIVING WELL will be shutting down. To replace it, Johnson & Johnson Family of Consumer Companies has created an exciting new program called HEALTHY ESSENTIALSTM.
As thanks for your loyalty over the years, all LIVING WELL members may sign-in with their LIVING WELL credentials to gain exclusive access to valuable coupons, exciting contests and promotions, and helpful tips and tools found on HEALTHY ESSENTIALSTM.
The suggested dates for surface mail has now past and airmail dates start on November 23rd so if you are mailing Christmas presents internationally, it is time to start planning.
For those McCafe coffee lovers, McDonalds is introducing bags of ground coffee in Canada on November 5th – after they give away lots of cups for free to get people hooked. A 340g bag will cost $6.99 and will be available in select McDonalds locations.
They are also looking into k-cups and other grocery items for the Canadian market.
The federal government have finally imposed regulations on prepaid credit card companies.
Under the new regulations, prepaid cards must fully disclose any fees and conditions at activation, must not expire and eliminate any unused balance, they also can’t have maintenance fees for at least one year after card activation.
Banana Boat/Energizer is pulling two types of continuous spray Banana Boat sun care products from stores across Canada – Banana Boat Ultra Defense Spray Sunscreen and Banana Boat Sport Performance Spray Sunscreen.
Energizer who own the Banana Boat label says there is a “potential risk of product igniting on the skin if contact is made with a source of ignition before the product is completely dry.” There are five cases of users catching on fire, four in the US and one in Canada.
The products were sold nationally from January, 2010, through Sept. 20, 2012.
If you shopped in the US, the list is much longer, view it here.
Consumers who purchased the products are being told not to use them. More information is available from the manufacturer at 1-888-SUN-TIPS (1-888-786-8477) Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET. or by sending an email to: [email protected].
Starbucks Canada has revised their Rewards Program to ensure their customers get more free food and drinks! However, they have also said goodbye to a few small freebies 🙁 Click here to view all the changes (too many to mention) and let us know what you think of the revised program. The new program starts on October 16, 2012.
Websaver.ca has announced on its Facebook webpage that “Monday will be a big day for coupons! If we get 1000 likes on this post, we’ll announce one of the companies that coupons will be available for. Start liking and sharing!” They received over 1000 “Likes” in 36 minutes and annouced there will be a coupon for Kellogg’s Vector cereal. They stated “Keep those shares coming! Our next company announcement will have quite a few coupons!”
With so many Mini-Wheat coupons, I thought this one was worth posting even though it is a ‘low level recall’. Kellogg’s Mini-Wheats have been recalled due to metal “Extraneous Material” in the cereal. The recall includes original frosted and brown sugar flavour across the country with best before dates of “2013 AL 01 TO 2013 JL 29”.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is now urging consumers to ask stores where they get their beef as they expanded the recall to include steaks, roasts, sausages and other cuts of meat in addition to the original (expanded) ground beef.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued an alert for ground beef sold in major retailers across Canada.
Walmart branded ground beef in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Kirkland branded ground beef and products (Costco brand) sold nationally.
Safeway branded products from ground beef to burger patties where sold across the country.
For a full list with item codes, pictures and expiry dates, visit their website.
Thanks for posting this important recall on the forums KrazE.
Bumping this as they have added stores to the list
Loblaws, Sobeys, Foodland, IGA, Metro, SuperC : See here for more details
For those who shop in the US, it has also been expanded to there:
Brands in the U.S. affected by the recall include Morasch Meats, Calahoo, Kirkland Signature, and Cattleman’s. The USDA’s FSIS site has not posted recall information on their site, but Kroger has released a recall of KRO Ground Beef 73% 3#, 3 lb. The beef was sold at Kroger stores in the greater Cincinnati area, northern Kentucky, Dayton Ohio, southeastern Indiana, Indiana (except for Evansville), Illinois, and eastern Missouri. It was also sold at Jay C, Food4Less and FoodsCo.
Expanded again to include private retailers and other grocery stores
JC Penney are making it easier for Canadians to shop across the border online.
They now display pricing in Canadian dollars, calculate duties and taxes at checkout to ensure you do not pay additional fees on delivery and have a $9 flat rate shipping cost when you spend $100+.
iloveagreatdeal has posted on the forums that as of this week, No Frills is to become more lenient in price-matching including allowing multi-buy deals. Their fineprint on the price-matching terms does seem to have dropped the multi-buy language, so hopefully this rumour proves to be true.
For me, No Frills is the hardest to price-match at, between keeping my flyer or writing on my flyer and then giving it back to me, getting a manager approval and printing a duplicate receipt I have not bothered price-matching there in some time. I will be interesting to try given the new rules and so many stores offering multi-buy deals.
