Shoppers Drug Mart - Home Of The Best Points Program
Today I could use a lot of items that they sell at Shoppers Drug Mart. Not only do they now have lots of groceries at deal prices usually much better or equal to the big Grocery stores, but they also have drugs.. and today .. I am sick.. I stayed home from work sick, and I hardly EVER call in sick to work.. maybe once a year on average I’d say.
The problem is that I don’t want to make everyone else I work with sick too and complain all day, so yeah.. I stayed home. So this weekend at Shoppers, they have their big Bonus Redemption Weekend – this is where you get extra money for spending you Shoppers Drug Mart Optimum points! Right now I have 48,000 SDM Optimum points, and I can redeem 40,000 for $75 in free merchandise – this week, however.. I can get $100 if I redeem the same amount of points – that’s HUGE! What’s also interesting is that last weekend, they had their 20X the points event which they usually have once a month or so – and we went hog-wild and picked up $103 worth of things (a lot of groceries, toilet paper, etc..etc..) – this resulted in my obtaining 20,000 points. Now I’m not sure what 20,000 optimum points would give you as a bonus this weekend, but I’d say it’s likely around $25 – and if you cashed them in I’d guess they’ll give you another $10 (perhaps it’s $15).. in any case – that’s basically a 30% discount on all the items I bought last week!
Or you can look at it this way, I’m going to get another $35 worth of Shoppers Drug Mart Items free for spending $100 last week. Still a great bonus, and since we used a bunch of coupons and such – we did end up getting some sweet deals anyhow – like Old Spice Body Wash which was on for $3.99 with $2.00 off coupons right below it! (Yeah, I took a bunch more of those coupons for later use 
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I just thought of a great idea too – I could buy about $50 worth of cat food with it! The PEIHS is looking for cat food.. what a great idea, I would actually then get a charitable donation receipt too.. cool idea. So now I’m trying to figure out what we should pick up this weekend at Shoppers.. I mean, we have $100 free to use – what should we get? And no.. I’m not going to pick up that damn netbook.
Perhaps I’ll pick up a bunch of drugs to help me with this cold like Cold Fx, Tylenol or an expensive item like some of the face washes or acnepril. I should also state that I don’t buy things “just for the sake of buying them”, I think that’s really frivolous and I think it’s also the goal of most Coupon manufacturers.. “Hey let’s send them out coupons for a product they won’t use anyhow! Yeah!!” – I try to only buy things that either we will use, we will find handy, or we should have ‘just in case (like first aid stuff)’. I try not to purchase much from Shoppers unless it’s a really good deal (they seem to always have eggs on for $1.99 or even $0.99 the other week) as I like to use the 20X event to gobble up points.
It should also be noted that I just checked my Air Miles balance and I have almost 1000 Air Miles which I will be soon cashing in for $140 in groceries. This will replace the money that we spend next month (or part of this month) in our $200 budget so that we can go eat out somewhere nice and treat ourselves.. great idea eh?
I will also be posting an article later on reviewing the major points programs and which one is the best, etc… stay tuned.