Great news! Shoppers Drug Mart now gives Shoppers Optimum Points on Medications and Pharmacy items. We found about this from our awesome reader Tamara V. who sent the following message:
I just got off the phone with Shoppers Drug Mart and as of August 1, 2014 you are able to get the points again on meds like before! If the pharmacist does not they are to call optimum and verify as some stores are not in the loop yet, just know this is for British Columbia.
If you live in other provinces please contact Shoppers and confirm that optimum points on meds are valid at your pharmacy too and leave a comment below to let other SmartCanuckers know! 😀
Not in Ontario. It is illegal to offer an incentive to have prescriptions filled in Ontario.
In Alberta you should still be able to get optimum points until the hearing is done in January 2015.
At their Quebec Pharmaprix stores where any prescription-drug promotions are verbotten by quebec law — when you buy their Pharmaprix / Shoppers GIFT CARD, you’re awarded Optimum points.
Then use the GIFT CARD to pay for prescription medication.
A legal way around the quebec legal prohibition against enjoying any promotions on Rx medication
BC is the only change after a legal challenge
We have always been getting them on scripts here in Nova Scotia.
New Brunswick had always permitted it as far as I know. A friend of mine gets mad points at Shoppers on prescriptions and likewise Lawton’s dishes out Airmiles on prescriptions.
Just curious, do you get promotional Optimum points on prescriptions in BC (i.e.: 20x points, 18,500 points WUS 75$ etc)?
Or is it just the straight base points all the time?