Shoppers Drug Mart is offering a $10 Shoppers Drug Mart gift card when you spend $50 or more on almost anything in the store (not on tobacco products, lottery tickets, bus tickets etc. You know the drill!). This promotion runs from Saturday January 29th until Friday February the 4th.
What will you do with your gift card? I will treat myself to something little, maybe some bubble bath or chocolate (yes, I am a typical woman). It is nice to be able to treat myself to something nice without having to pay for it. Sure, relaxing is great, but relaxing for free is even better!
Can you get your total under $50 with coupons to be applicable?
No it has to be over 50 dollars excluding taxes. Secondly the gift certificate expires very very quickly, so spend it right away.
Well what I’ll buy is one Ralp Lauren Big Pony set worth $60 as you get 10,000 points.(For DH) It was in one of the inserts with the Glow magazine(Love is everywhere) and I’ll get a Gosh lip color worth $15 so I can use my $20 coupon when I spend $75 in the beauty boutique. So spend $75-$20=$55 For my $55 spent and taxes of couse I get 10,750 points plus $10 gift card. Not to shabby . That’s $10 plus $22.25 from the points so in fact I will only have spent $22.75 and taxes out of pocket and we can use it all.LOL
This is exciting.. I like how you only have to spend $50 this time. I hate it when they make you spend $75 🙂
Can you get photo prints made and include that in the $50?
Can you do this promotion with the Neutrogena’s MIR skin care kit? Thanks in advanced.
Not long ago -while a promotion similar to this one was going on-, I made a purchase of $50. Then I asked the cashier for the $10 coupon and she said “I am sorry, but we don’t have any left”. It didn’t feel good to hear that because I thought I would get the coupon for sure after spending that amount. Anyway, my suggestion is: before you pay, ask if they still have coupons/gift card left because sometimes they do this “while quantities last”.
you can do this with the neutrogena MIR!!
Last time my shoppers ran out, they gave me the $10 in bonus points, it took a week for it to register, but it did come through!
If you didn’t get the neutrogena mail in rebate out of a magazine, ask the shoppers cosmetic counter, they have them!
(she was also the one who advised me to wait till the weekend for the extra bonus!)
i recently went into my local shopper’s drug mart and i asked the cosmetics associate if she could recommend a mid price good quality skin care product for my fair skin esp. with winter conditions drying out skin; etc.
she has been a long term employee whom is very helpful and polite and knowledgeable.
she suggested the neutrogena clincal free main in rebate trio product valued at $60.00 plus hst. i filled in the rebate form and sent the orginal receipt and i kept a photocopied receipt for my own records. i have to wait 4-6 wks for the $60.00 cheque being mailed to me to do whatever i wish to do with.
that’s the great part of this deal……….what i take issue with is:
shopper’s drug mart cosmetics staff offering me a $10.00 shopper’s gift card since my cosmetics purchase was over the $50.00 minumun purchase.
with an expiry date 2 1/2 wks after my cosmetics purchase.
i went into shopper’s to use my small gift card and i didn’t have my credit or debit cards with me since i also had to go to the medical clinics in the same mall adjacent to my shoppers and there are no lockers in the medical clinics and i don’t have a car so i only brought what id but left my valuables at home.
when i bought $10 worth of shopper’s purchases up to the front cashier to be redeemed the cashier kept telling me that i’d have to make a total purchase of $11.42 in order for her to honour my $10.00 gift card.
if i had’ve had the change with me i wouldn’t have minded but when i politely explained why i didn’t bring valuables with me since my medical treatments beside the shopper’s don’t have lockers and i don’t have a vehicle so i didn’t think that using my $10 shoppers gift card after i already made a $60.00 + hst purchase in the store.
i think the gift card idea is good in theory but to make a customer pay the tax on a time limited small gift card without explaining that up front actually makes the gift card ineffective and not a very good deal at all!
when i was told by the front cashier and then the cosmetics associate
that shopper’s is giving me a “free gift card” and that it’s not thier fault if i didn’t have the hst change with me to redeem the gift card………….
firstly, i don’t consider my $64.68($60.00+ hst) purchase a freebie.
i had to purchase a $50.00 or more purchase in order to get the gift card.
but i paid the hst up front on the $60.00 high end cosmetics neutrogena trio rebate offer. i still have to wait another 4-6 wks for my rebate cheque that my local shopper’s drug mart cosmetics associate made the sale locally from me and neutrogena now has been sent my receipt.
with my initial lay out of money and hst paid for that $60.00 product i don’t agree that i should have to pay more hst with a small $10 gift card.
with the hst i’ve already paid up front then the $10 gift card should be redeemed any way i want to redeem it without charging me hst again when i’ve already paid hst upfront with my high end cosmetics purchase.
i resent any shopper’s associate reminding me as a long term loyal customer that they’ve given me the gift card for free and then also expecting me to pay the hst (ontario provincial tax) on the initial purchase of the cosmetics product that the cosmetics rep recommended that i buy. i took her advice and i paid my $60.00 purchase and the applicable
$4.68 harmonized sales tax in ontario.
i don’t see why shoppers can’t offer thier gift card to be redeemed with the customers preference. why not allow the shoppers customer, whom has already spent the hst upfront with thier initial shoppers purchase to either be hst exempt from thier gift card purchase by allowing the customer to either transfer the $10 gift card into thier optimum points or allow a customer whom has already made a sizeable purchase and paid the hst upfront to be hst exempt from the purchase made with the time limited gift card.
or can’t the shoppers store allow the customer whom isn’t carrying around cash or valuables in my case or any shoppers customer’s case to simply buy $8.70 worth of a shoppers product and then just take the hst out of the $10 gift card!!!!!!!!!
come on shoppers staff; i already paid the hst up front when i made my
$64.86 purchase of a $60.00 value. ………….and stop telling me or debating with me in front of other customers in line behind me that you gave me a free gift card.
there’s nothing free about what i bought or what i paid up front or that i’m waiting for my $60.00 rebate cheque for the next 4-6 wks while i’m paying interest on my credit card purchase of that $60.00 product!
your “free” shoppers gift card sure comes with a complicated hidden agenda…………i didn’t walk into shoppers and get a free gift card.
i had to make a purchase over $50.00 so let’s work with the customer and see it from my point of view.
give me my value. the way i want to redeem the small gift card and don’t try to insult me by claiming that shoppers is giving me a free gift card!
i come from a general store family and we actually were raised to follow the business adage; that the customer is always right!
i have a saying nowadays: just while you’re serving me pretend that you care about my needs as the customer………because who am i?
i’m only the customer!!!!!!!!
as a loyal shoppers customer and as an experienced tax payer i am getting fed up with box stores looking for tax grabs under the guise of claiming to give me freebies………that $10 gift card after my $64.86 sizable purchase (to me it’s enough of a tax added purchase) has turned out to be more trouble than it’s worth and the “free” gift card definitely isn’t worth the hassle and complications it’s created.
i may take my business elsewhere.
has any other shoppers customers ran into a similar problem when trying to redeem thier “free” gift card?
i somehow suspect i’m not the only shoppers customer whom may not shop at shoppers after this promotional problem……..whether a shoppers staff sees it my way or not or whether they consider my purchase insignificant or the fact that i paid the hst or applicable ontario harmonized sales tax
at the point of my original purchase …………
in closing i am not satisfied with the whole free gift card tax grab and i’d like to know just what exactly shoppers intends to do to remedy my issue with the “free” gift card in order to restore my faith in being treated as a loyal respected customer?