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.

You can check the various lists on the CFIA website to see if the meat you have is recalled.  Due to the size of the list, and the fact they are all on different pages, this page which sorts by store selling the items, may be of more use.

We seem to be experiencing server issues and the forums are currently showing intermittent database errors.

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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

Use this link for most up to date information

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+.

Click here to shop online at JC Penney.

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.

SmartSouce announced today that they are going mobile.

The new mobile version of the site uses the same URL and will allow users to scroll through the available offers and select which coupons they want from any web-enabled phone, smartphone or other mobile communications device, without having to download any special software or applications.

“We were eager to make the mobile couponing experience available to our Canadian consumer base,” said Henri Lellouche, Senior Vice President, Digital.

What does this mean for Canadians?  Will stores be accepting mobile coupons soon?  There certainly has been a move towards grocery stores accepting printable coupons with the increased security the coupon printer software used by companies like SmartSouce.ca.  Will they be able to talk these stores into accepting mobile coupons too?  With Sobey’s allowing you to save bonus points on your Club Sobeys card, it does seem like changes are coming in couponland.

Boo must be delirious because he seems to think he is a genie and can grant wishes to lucky Smart Canucks’ readers.

All you have to do is reply to this post (once per IP address) before Thursday 13th September at 11:59 p.m. Eastern with the following wishes and someone will win the $10 gift card of their wish.

I wish for a $1 coupon for … (insert product)

I wish I could find …. (insert product) on sale this week

I wish for a $10 gift card to …  (insert store)

His genie powers are obviously limited since he can’t make unicorn coupons appear, but maybe the stores will listen to what we want.  Winner will be chosen using a random number generator on Friday 14th September.  Your correct email must be used when posting in order for us to contact you (name in first box, email in second).  Winners will be given 24 hours to respond or a replacement winner will be chosen.

For more chances to win, more winners will be chosen in our matching forum contest here.

• Age of majority only
• Canada only no purchase is necessary to enter, odds of winning are dependent on number of entries received.
• Potential winner will be required to answer a skill testing question.
• You must use a valid email so I can contact you with details on how to claim your prize. Persons who enter with an alias(fake) email will forfeit their prize and a new winner will be drawn.

This contest has now ended and the winner is Val (post 89)

Yes, Nordstrom’s worst kept secret has finally been confirmed.

The first Nordstrom store will launch in Chinook Centre in Calgary in the fall of 2014, followed by Ottawa’s Rideau Centre and Vancouver’s Pacific Centre in the spring of 2015 and Sherway Gardens by the end of 2016.  So we have a while to wait, but I am excited by this, we need some more variety in our stores here.  At least three of the stores are currently Sears stores so the new Nordstrom stores will be fairly large.

It has now been confirmed that starting tomorrow, the terms have been changed for the Shoppers Drug Mart promotion for 8000 bonus optimum points when you buy four selected Kraft products.

Points will now be awarded on September 28th and only one offer per card is allowed starting tomorrow.

Thanks SavenRaven for the photo and confirmation!

In a press release today, Target confirmed they would be offering their popular RedCard in Canada.

The Target Debit Card, a proprietary Target Canada offering, will link to the cardholder’s existing chequing account and can be used only at Target stores in Canada. 

 Royal Bank of Canada will issue the no-annual fee Target RBC MasterCard, which offers cardholders not only REDcard 5% Rewards at Target, but also the ability to earn Target GiftCards^® based on their purchases outside of Target.

Both will offer a discount of 5% on almost all items in store.  The fact that it links to my existing debit card and I do not have to sign up for a new credit card for a discount is a huge bonus for me.  Although I will be carefully reading the terms before agreeing to any access to my banking information. It does look promising though and will help those mourning the loss of HBC Rewards from shopping at Zellers. You can apply online for them before the new Target stores open, apply for the new Mastercard at RBC branches or apply in store once they open.

You may be experiencing downtime on the forum.  Please save any posts or trade list updates in case you get a database error on posting.

Update: 10:30 p.m. Eastern – it seems to be back up but I would still save important posts or updates before posting them.

Joe Fresh is branching the brand out to USA retailers in 2013.  They are planning on opening upwards of 700 stores! This is huge, generally Canadian stores don’t branch out Stateside. I’m wondering if it’s a good move for them or not.

Loblaw’s Joe Fresh clothing brand announced Wednesday it has formed a partnership with U.S. retailer J.C. Penney Co. (NYSE: JCP) to open 700 stores in the U.S. in 2013 that will run for four years.

Click here for the full article.

Just announced yesterday by the Globe and Mail.  Nordstrom is coming to Canada!

Upscale Nordstrom plans to launch its first stores here at the Pacific Centre in Vancouver, Chinook Centre in Calgary and Ottawa’s Rideau Centre – whose leases Sears sold back to landlord Cadillac Fairview Corp. this year for $170-million – as well as Sherway Gardens mall in Toronto, industry sources said.

Click here for more details.

Thanks Bg, for the heads up.

Pampers has released a bonus 10 point code for their Gifts to Grow program below.

SPC717SUM12PAMP

I’m a little disappointed this summer they aren’t doubling the points on the Splashers swim diapers. Last fall I loaded up huge when our local Walmart marked down packs to $4 and I had $2 coupons to use. But then again I guess they’re already doubling the Olympic diapers.

Vous parlez français?

Smart Canucks is pleased to announce a new French savings site called rabaisextreme.ca A french Smart Canucks!

The new sister site will specialize in deals for Quebec, and other offers, completely in French.

The first 100 members that sign up and post 10 times (valid french posts) will receive a $5 gift card of choice. Also keep your eye out for another contest on  Rabais Smartcanucks for one $25 gift card.  Both the Rabais SC and the Rabais Extrême are accessible on the SC site through the “français” link in the right corner.

For more information on the contests click here.