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Saturday, December 3, 2011

Shoppers Drugmart Mega Redemption!

These pictures were taken at 2 in the morning, so please excuse!


This weekend is Shoppers Mega Redemption. What is that you ask? Well, if you have a Shoppers Optimum card(they are free)you get points every time you buy something at Shoppers.

Last November I decided to see what all the fuss was about as I thought of Shoppers as having the odd loss leader but overall was overpriced. Thus, I decided to "study" the way of Shoppers Optimum points. My first stop was the Smart Canucks Shoppers Drug Mart Forum

I learned that Shoppers has 20X the points days that are the best time to buy things if the things you need are on sale. I also learned that you can use coupons to lower you out of pocket expenses.

I learned that it is best if you buy a Shoppers Drug Mart, preloaded gift card before you do your shop, as you get more points that way!

Long story short it works! I redeemed in Feb($200) and then carefully tracked everything I bought at Shoppers from then on.

I participated in 7 20X the points days. I made sure that the loss leaders were things I used and needed. For example, milk, eggs, bread, butter, toilet paper.

Since Feb I spent $631.00. This weekend I had enough for $625 worth of redemptions. This is what I got!



More gifts...had coupons for the deodorant.
More Christmas gifts. The yogurt had a $2 off coupon.
More Christmas gifts and stocking stuffers!

Hubby picked some Christmasy treats, I had a coupon for one! I had coupons for the dishwasher detergent. The iTunes cards are stocking stuffers and had an additional 2500 bonus points.

There are presents and stocking stuffers and chips for hubby! I had a coupon for the razors.
The spatula was a fun present to me as mine fell apart a long time ago!
The Oasis came with a coupon for a free 960ml-1.75L of juice. There was a $2 off coupon attached to the juice. I had a $3 coupon for the dishwasher soap and a $1 for the cereal.


The yogurts, the juice and the creamers had coupons off attached to them. (the advantage of shopping at midnight!) The Janes chicken has $11.50 worth of coupons inside.(I didn't realize this until I got home!) I had coupons off on the margarine and High liner fish.
In the end the grand total spent(not including the iTunes) was $640.94. I had to pay the taxes on anything taxable, so my total out of pocket cost was $45.20(less than the cost of the 2 Wii contollers!).
I used $26.25 in coupons. I got another 7621 in Shoppers points, a free juice and $11.50 in coupons. Like I said my spending for the year was $634. I enjoyed this experiment! It was fun to have extra grocery and present money at Christmas! Maybe you want to do your own Shoppers experiment???

2 comments:

Dayna Dueck said...

Thanks for telling me about this, Sue. I shopped twice at Shoppers on 20X days and I applied for the credit card which earned me some extra points. I spent about $150 total. On Saturday, I redeemed 50,000 points for $125 worth of stuff! Not quite as good as your deal but I was thrilled! So fun to have extra $ at Christmas time. I can't wait to see how much I have next time around ...

Sue said...

You are welcome Dayna! So fun to have others playing "the game"....I am looking forward to what you will have next time too! :)