For this one I am going to talk a little bit about Shoppers Drug Mart, a love hate thing. Mainly because this saturday they are doing another 20x point event, which as an optimum collector is a happy dance type thing. so here it goes well I am still learning a little bit but I will share what I know
When you have an Optimum card you get 10 points for every dollar you spend, throughout the store they have products with bonus point options so like 10x bp (bonus points) so say something costs 5.99 normally you would get 59 points for that but with the bp option you would receive 119 points. yay. so now on 20x days granted you have to spend $50 to get the points (but that is before coupons I will explain that in a minute) so normally you would get 500 points when you spend 50 dollars but on 20x days it would be 10,000 (since you get 500 base points and the 20x is a bonus deal they do, it works out to be more like 30x) and then if you get products with bonus point options rack them up even more.
confused? ya it can take a while to learn lol. ok so now comes the awesome part, when you do events like that, you total has to be 50 before taxes blah blah, BUT you can bring your total down with coupons, now you will probably get a cashier say "you won't get the bonus point if you use coupons" just smile and reply that's ok I don't care...because it is not up to them it is automatically done, so even bringing the total down (I will give an example) you will still get the points. now here is an example list, (actually it's my first draft for this saturday)
2x Royale Toilet paper 5.99 each = 11.98 - 2 coupons = 9.98
2x Tide 5.99 each = 11.98 - 5 when you buy 2 = 6.98
6x Royale facial tissue .77 each = 4.62- 1= 3.62
2x Olay body wash 3.99 each = 7.98 - 5 = 2.98
1x Loreal expertise 5.99 each = 5.99 (plus has 10x bp..so 119 off this one) - 1.50 = 4.49
2x Colgate sensitive pro relief toothpaste 3.99 each = 7.98 (plus 10x bp) - 6 = 1.98
ok so my total before coupons is 50.53 getting me to the 20x points thing so yay then with my coupons
($20 worht) my OOP (out of pocket) will only be 30.53. not too bad for a first draft lol
oh and before you shop, buy a shoppers gift card for the amount you are thinking of spending because you also get points when you buy the gift card, so it's like doubling your points. Ok I think that is enough for now as it can be alot to take in lol, any questions just comment of send me a FB msg and I will walk you through, well as well as I can.
