Get a free sample of Idahoan’s Instant Mashed Potatoes here.

They deliver this free sample to Canada.

Have you ever been shopping when you find an item, read its displayed price and decide to buy that item but then when you checkout the cashier scans it for a different price? a much higher price? Yes it happens to all of us and the cashier does one of two things… either apologizes for the wrong price and says he/she’ll charge you the lower displayed price or the cashier just acts like a total %$# and says the display price is wrong.

Well in both cases believe it or not, many well known stores in Canada should give you the item for FREE! Many chains are members in Canada’s Scanner Price Accuracy Voluntary Code.

How does the code work?
If the scanned price of an non-price ticketed item is higher than the shelf price or any other displayed price, the customer is entitled to receive the item free, up to a $10 maximum. When the item has a price tagged, the lowest price applies. When identical items are incorrectly priced, the second one will be sold at the correct price. Under this code you are eligible

What does the code cover?
The Code covers all scanned merchandise at participating retail outlets where the “Scanner Price Accuracy Voluntary Code” sign is displayed at the store entrance or checkout. Note that you’ve probably seen this sign before but never knew what it is. A&P have it posted on every checkout isle.

What happens if two or more identical non-price ticketed items are incorrectly scanned?
Customers are entitled to the first item free (up to a maximum of $10) and the subsequent item(s) at the correct price.

Which stores participate in this code?
Here’s a rough list of participating stores. Please feel free to notify of additions/deletions to this list:

the Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores (CACDS)
Shoppers Drug Mart
The Groupe Jean Coutu (NB and Ont only)
Lawton Drug Stores
London Drugs
Lovell Drugs
Pharma-save (BC and Sask)

the Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors (CCGD)
Canada Safeway Limited
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company of Canada Limited
Loblaw Companies Limited
Sobeys Inc.
Metro Inc.
Thrifty Foods
Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd.
Co-op Atlantic
Federated Co-operatives Limited

the Retail Council of Canada (RCC)
Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd.
The Home Depot Canada
Canadian Tire Corporation Ltd.
Toys r Us
Shoppers Drug Mart
Wal*Mart Canada Corp.
Giant Tiger Stores Ltd.
The North West Company
Best Buy/Future Shop ( in implementation stage)
2 Home Hardware franchisees

the Federation of Independent Grocers (FIC)
Thrifty Foods
Overwaitea Food Group
The Harry Watson Group
Longos Brothers Fruit Markets

As well as over 1000 independent locations

Where can I get more details?
http://www.ccgd.ca/en/PriceAcc.html

Amazon.ca has The Da Vinci Code novel on sale for $5.49 (50% off). Unfortunately shipping is free if you spend $39.99 or more. So if you were planning on buying something else from Amazon you might as well add The Da Vinci Code, otherwise, it’s not really a great deal.

You can order this book from Amazon.ca here.

Hello everyone!

I’d like to thank you all for your encouragement and support in building the SmartCanucks.ca community 🙂 I have a couple of announcements:

– Schwinn wrote about SmartCanucks.ca on Digg! Thank you very much Schwinn 🙂 that is so nice of you. Can everyone do me a little favour please and Digg this article:
http://digg.com/deals/Deal_Blog_for_all_you_Canucks_

– If you have any feedback or suggestions please don’t hesitate to leave a message using the form on the right sidebar or email me at [email protected]. I’d love to hear from you.

– If you’re interested in contributing to SmartCanucks.ca please let me know.

– I got many requests for moola.com invitations. I contacted moola and I think I should have more moola invitations for anyone interested very soon. I’ll keep you updated.

Have a great day

Get a Carnation Recipe Book for free. This might be fun to some of you, especially if you like cooking 🙂

Do you have a “More, please!” family favourite? Then send us your recipe and in return, we’ll send you a free CARNATION® recipe booklet featuring 20 Canadian classics gathered from coast to coast.

Simply e-mail your recipe to [email protected], and if you’d be so kind, please include the following information:

1. Your full name
2. Your mailing address (so we know where to send your free booklet!)
3. A short sentence or two about any favourite, interesting or innovative ways you use CARNATION products in the home
4. And of course, don’t forget to include your recipe

Thank you and happy baking!

Get your free sample of GlaxoSmithKline’s Eumo base Concentrated Rehydration Cream. GlaxoSmithKline (gsk) will send you a free 5g sample and information leaflet within 14 days.

I just find it strange though that they don’t ask for province. How do they know which province the address is in? I guess they can find out from the postcode, but just incase maybe you can try typing the province name (and city) in the city field.

Update: I forgot to add a link to this freebie yesterday! I’m very sorry about that. Here is the link.

Suzanne, I removed your comment just to protect your own privacy. You can order the sample directly from GlaxoSmithKline using the above link. I hope you understand and sorry for any confusion I might have caused.

Onesta are offering free samples of their Hydrating Shampoo and Moisture-Balancing Conditioner. If you’re interested in trying their products order your free sample here.

When you’re suffering from diarrhea, Imodium is like a precious cure that can really help you get on with your day. The good news is that you can save $2 on your next Imodium purchase. All you need to do is go to their website here and fill in the form to get the $2 off coupon. Don’t forget to tick the “Yes, I’d like to receive my $2 Online Coupon” box.

Easter is over, but this only means that bunnies and eggs are going to be on clearance at Shoppers Drug Mart, Pharma Plus, Zellers, Walmart, etc.

I tried finding the best deals out there:

I went to Shoppers Drug Mart today and they had the Cadbury Eggs (Crème, Peanut Butter and WonderBar eggs) reduced to 59 cents (regular is 99 cents). I’m not sure if this is at all Shoppers Drug Mart branches but from the way it’s priced I can almost 99% guess that it’s on sale at all (or at least Ontario) Shoppers Drug Marts.

Lindt Gold Bunnies are on sale for $1.96 (save $4.00) at Pharma Plus. This offer is in the weekly Pharma Plus flyer.

If you can’t find the Lindt Gold Bunnies at Pharma Plus, Zellers also had them on sale for $2.49 and Staples is expected to reduce them to $2.97.

I also suggest you checkout your local Wal-mart and other grocery stores. The sooner you go the better. By Wednesday, most Easter chocolate will be gone so hurry.

You can now download the new msn messenger beta (without an inviation). Basically go to Microsoft’s Live website here, click on Windows Live Messenger beta and then click on sign up and follow instructions.

I’m using this MSN Messenger Beta right now and it has some new features like the ability to send offline messages (AT LAST!) and many more bells and whistles.

Fill out a short survey and receive a free sample of Pepcid Complete the antacid & acid Reducer. Get your free Pepcid Complete sample here.

Victoria’s Secret Online is having a clearance sale of up to 70%. You can find some really good bargains. Check out Victoria’s Secret clearance here.

Note however that these prices are in US Dollars and also don’t forget that Customs and Revenue Canada may charge duties and taxes.

Happy Easter 🙂

Reminder that today Future Shop has a one day Easter Sale.
Check out Future Shop’s sale here.

Best Buy has some exclusive offers this week too.
Check out Best Buy’s sale here.

Receive a free sample of Derma’s Hyaluronic Acid Day Creme here.

You can also receive their free printed catalogue here.

If you’re looking for a good website hosting plan, Netfirms has an awesome one, the MAX plan. For $10.00 for 1 year you get::

– 2 FREE domain names (.com .net .org .info .biz and .ca)
– 20GB of disk space
– 750GB data transfer per month
– Host up to 3 websites with a single account
– Support for PHP, Perl, and MySQL

Netfirms is a Canadian company based in Toronto. I’ve known netfirms for a very long time and I’ve always been impressed by their support, friendliness and real willingness to satisfy their customers. With 2 free domain names with high quality hosting for $10 is just irresistible.

Netfirms has special support for WordPress, which means that if you have a blog (or want to start a new one) you can have it up and running in minutes.

If you’re interested in .ca domain names netfirms by no shadow of a doubt has the cheapest .ca domain names. Unfortunetly, .ca is not available in the Max plan list (but is offered in this plan) so you’ll have to contact them if you need to register a .ca.

You can find out more about Netfirm’s Max Special Offer here. Offer expires May 31st, 2006.

Update: the offer code is MAX