Yes yes yes! The  Food Basics Summer Dollar Sale is back 🙂
From July 22 – 28, 2006 loads of items are on sale for just $1 at Food Basics. Brenan compiled a list of some of the $1 items:

Michelinas Entrees(classics or zapems)
Diana Sauce(get your coupons!!!!) this is the cheapest I’ve ever seen it
Coke or Pepsi 2L
Lactantia 1/4 pound butter sticks, original salted or garlic
Ontario Peaches and Cream Corn 6/1.00
Chicken Drumsticks or Thighs 1lb
Fruite or Tetley Iced Tea 2L
Equality Waffles 10’s
Oakrun English Muffins 6’s
Motts Garden Cocktail 945ml
Hunts Snack Pack Pudding 4’s
Master Choice Mayonnaise or Whipped Dressing 475ml
McCain Frozen Cream Pies
Furlanis Garlic Bread
I Can’t Believe its not Butter 454g
Gatorade 710ml
Master Choice Kettle Cooked Chips
Master Choice Popcorn 3’s
Allen Strawberry Twirls
Equality Potato Crisps
Munchies 150g or Cheetos 155g
Quaker Rice Cakes or Crispy Minis
Beaver Toffee Peanuts
Ragu or Hunts Thick and Rich Sauce
Equality Hamburger Dinner(like hambuger helper)
Equality Long Grain Rice 907g
Aylmer Corn 398ml 2/1.00 or 12x398ml $5
Chef Boyardee 418-425g
Lipton Sidekicks noodles, rice or pasta
Hunts Manwich or Puritan Stew
Assorted Nestle chocolate bars 2/1.00
Bleach 101 2.84L
Palmolive Ultra 384ml
Comet Lavender Fresh 600g(new product???)
Glad Cling Wrap 30M or Reynolds Foil Wrap 12″x 25′
Snuggle Sheets 20’s
Touch of Glass or Fabulous cleaners
Wizard Air Wick Stick Ups 2’s
Colgate Toothbrushes
Everready Batteries

And much much more! Read Food Basics’ flyer online here.

 

Today’s main Deal is a Dell Axim X51v Pocket PC (Personal Digital Assistant PDA). It is on sale for $369 (regular price $529). Now this deal isn’t really that great since this PDA has been around for a while and isn’t really reduced that much. But the good news is that some of today’s other deals are pretty good:

– IOGear Wireless Bluetooth Headphones & Microphone – $79
– Kingston Elite Pro 2GB SD Card – $49
– FinePix A510 Digital Camera – $189
– Z22 Handheld – $99
– 200 GB 7200 RPM Barracuda 7200.9 Ultra ATA/100 Internal Hard Drive – $79

If you own a camera that uses SD cards (like Canon cameras and most other brands except for mainly Sony) the Kingston Elite Pro 2GB SD Card is one hot deal FOR $49.

If you’re running out of space on your PC the 200GB Internal Hard Drive for $79 is a good deal too.

Remember shipping is free.
More details on Dell Canada’s Day 3 of 14 Days of Deals here.

 

Good deals but nothing spectacular on Flat panel LCD displays today.

DELL 1907FP 19” Digital flat panel is on sale for $249 (regular price $349).

This monitor is of very high quality. The image is bright, sharp and clear. Low response time also insures that you almost get no shadowing (so if you move a window around you won’t feel it leaving shadows or trails behind). You can also rotate the screen so that it’s vertical and one of this monitor’s most comfortable features are the integrated USB ports for easy access to connect peripheral devices.

The only problem is that Dell had a very similar deal a few months ago. Given the Canadian dollar’s rise since then you would have expected Dell to lower their prices a bit. You can find 19” monitors on sale for $199 at Staples and Future Shop. They might not be as good as the Dell ones but for people on a tight budget the $199 ones are perfectly fine. I also expect 21” monitors to become the mainstream soon which will result in huge price drops on 19” monitors.

So in a nutshell, the monitors on sale are wonderful but the price should have been lower. I’d recommend you wait for better deals.

Some of Dell’s other deals today include:

– Dell E196FP 19-inch Flat Panel LCD Monitor – $219
- Kensington PilotMouse Wireless Laser Mouse – $29
– LX Arm with Constant Force (CF) – $119
– Verto GeForce 6600 256MB DDR 8X AGP Graphics Card – $99
– Stylus Photo R220 Inkjet Printer – $99

More details on Dell Canada’s Day 2 of 14 Days of Deals here.

Not a very good start:

Today’s main deal is a Belin Wireless Desktop 130 for $19 (regular price $59). The mouse isn’t too bad. It has a good response time and looks fairly good. Unfortunately, the keyboard isn’t exactly top quality. It has lots of extra buttons and a built in built-in wrist rest but its cheap look and feel would prevent me from buying it.

Interestingly, Dell misspelled the word quiet:

Not a very professional thing to do 😉

The bottom line: if you’re looking for an inexpensive mouse and keyboard this deal from Dell might do the trick. I however do not recommend it.

Some of Dell’s other deals include:
– Kodak EasyShare C533 5MP, 3x Optical Zoom Digital Camera – $149
– Discovery 640 Bluetooth Headset – $69
– Kingston 2GB CompactFlash Elite Pro Card – $69
– Kingston USB 2.0 15-in-1 Memory Card Reader – $17
– Sanyo CLT E40 Digital Slide-to-Open Cordless Phone with Caller ID – $79

More details on Dell Canada’s Day 1 of 14 Days of Deals here.

 

Dell is having 14 days of deals! The last couple of times Dell had these deal days, Dell offered some breath-taking bargains. Hopefully it’ll be the same this time!

The 14 days of deals will include much more than just computers. Dell it trying to aggressively market its flat panel displays, mp3 players, PC accessories, home theaters, etc. so except some huge discounts on items like these.

I’ll cover the 14 days of deals giving advice on the various discounted products.

From June July 19 – August 1st, 2006
You can find more information about DELL Canada’s 14 Days of Deals here.

 

Buy Wild Water Kingdom tickets online and get up to 40% discounts:

WWK 2006 – Adult Day Pass (Age 10+): $19.81 (Original Price $27.36)
WWK 2006 – Child Day Pass (Age 4 – 9): $15.09 (You Save $4.72)

To get this discount:
– go to the Wild Water Kingdom website here
– click on “Online Purchases”
– click on “corporate consignment”
– enter the coupon code 2834 and click on apply coupon

Enjoy your time at the WWK 🙂

Sorry for the lack of updates. I had to travel to Ottawa and I didn’t have easy Internet access during my stay. SmartCanucks is back to normal. Next time I’ll make sure I leave a notice on the blog before traveling anywhere.

I have some good news to make:

Canadian Girl will start writing in the blog and forum as well 🙂 She’ll be using a different nickname (which she hasn’t chosen yet). Instead of posting deals, she’ll have some other fascinating stuff like competitions, tips and advice, interesting news and much more 🙂

I’ll also be dedicating much more time to SmartCanucks so you’ll get much more deals and freebies.

Don’t forget to check out the forum regularly. Several people, especially Lesley, are posting some fabulous deals and freebies 🙂

Zellers is having dollar days starting July 15, 2006. Thanks to Carters Mom for the info 🙂

Some highlights (at least in my area, but Zellers seems pretty much consistent)

Clover Leaf pink salmon 213g $1 Limit 6
Tide liquid or powder 24-37 washes $7, limit 6
Palmolive liquid dishsoap 384ml $1, limit 6
Nestle flavored waters 6x500ml $2! limit 6
Pringles 2/3.00 limit 6
Case of Coke (or diet) 24pk $6, limit 6
Kids cherokee t-shirt $3
Jello brand pudding 4x99g $1, limit 6
Colgate 130 basic toothpaste or 75ml premium, 2/1.50 limit 6
Renuzit air freshener 2/1.50 limit 6
dictionary or thesaurus $2, no rainchecks

utility mat $1
Truly light bulbs 4pk $1
Ivory 6×90 or camay 3×130 2/3.00 limit 6
Life cereal 250-330g $1, limit 6 (arent there coupons for these)
Doritos $2, limit 6
Realfruit gummies 3/5.00
airwick air freshener $2
french’s mustard 400ml 2/3.00
spray and wash $2
huggies mega $17
scotch tape 3pk plus bonus roll, $2!!!!!! was 3.97
Dora bathtime art sets $5

That’s pretty much all that jumped out at me, and for you guys. There were a few deals also on adults clothing and small appliances and stuff, but thse can be hard to articulate in type ,lol

You can read this week’s full Zellers Flyer here.

Canadian kids get this lovely bookmark and kids activity book from Alberta Turkey :-).

You can view the book online or request a hard copy (Request Publication).

Get the free bookmark and activity book here.

You can’t go wrong with 10% off at Home Depot. Fill out this form and the 10% off coupon will get delivered to you in the mail 🙂

Get your Home Depot 10% discount coupon here.

 

French Connection is having a clearance sale at its Toronto Warehouse. Although French Connection’s “FCUK” T-Shirts are getting out of fashion, I wouldn’t mind buying a couple more at clearance prices.

I wonder if anyone noticed that FCUK has an identity crisis… it’s French Connection UK in Canada selling clothes made in China. What does that make it? 😉

Back to the warehouse sale info:

Where?
224 North Queen Street
Etobicoke, Ontario, M9C 4Y1

When?
July 13 – 16, 2006
Thursday & Friday: 11am-8pm
Saturday & Sunday: 9am-6pm

Interestingly, FCUK is ditching it’s FCUK slogan. You can find out more about that here.

FCUK Warehouse sale details here.

Live in Calgary? Get free breakfast pancakes 🙂

The Calgary Stampede Breakfast is a regional tradition where local organizations put on free pancake breakfasts to residents and visitors of our great city during the Stampede Season.

Find out where the pancakes are served here.

Looks like President’s Choice Financial is my new bank of choice. PC Financial offers an interest plus savings account with high interest rates.

When I say high interest I mean as high (if not higher) than GIC interest rates. If your account has between $0 and $1000 you get 1%. If your PC savings account has $1,000.01 and up you get 4%!! You also get bonus annual interest but that’s not really a biggie.

Compared to TD and other banks’ GIC interest rates this 4% interest on a savings account is invincible. I’ll pass by TD soon and see if they can match PC Financial’s interest rates. If they can’t… goodbye TD.

More details about PC Financial Interest Plus Savings Account here.
You can apply for this savings account online here.

Note that you’ll find PC Financial branches at most Loblaws branches.

Thanks Joel for suggesting this awesome deal :-) 

Cheap Ipods (refurbished) at the Apple Canada online store.

Shuffles starting at $59
Nanos starting at $195
Videos starting at $299

Get these refurbished apple products here.

Get it while it lasts !

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• Impact Driver: 1/4″ Quick coupler for easy bit changes. Unique impact mechanism designed to help drive long screws and lag bolts. Overmold cushion grip for user comfort.
• Circular Saw: Exactline™ Laser Alignment System improves cutting accuracy. Forward located spindle lock for quick and easy blade changes. Left side blade provides better cut line visibility.
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• Jig Saw: Toolless blade clamp for quick and easy blade changes. 4 orbital positions for smooth to aggressive cutting. Base adjusts from 0 to 45 left and right. On-board storage for extra blades.
• Chainsaw: Safe-T-Tip™ prevents rotational kickback. Push button oiling for prolonged chain life.
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