Shoppers Optimum Card

Recently on a website I visit often (http://smartcanucks.ca/) I started reading about people getting hundreds of dollars worth of free stuff from shoppers drug mart.  I decided to check out what the hype was all about and get a shoppers optimum card.  The program goes something like this: For every dollar you spend in the store you receive 10 optimum points and after you accumulate certain levels of points you can use them to get free stuff.  The 10 points on the dollar in itself would take awhile to get a large amount of points but they have special events such as spend 50 get 20X the points.  Also there are mega redemption days where your points are worth more than they normally would be.  For example instead of 95000 points being with $170 it would be worth $250.  So far I have had my card about a month and I have about 13,000 points which is only worth about $15 (more for a mega redemption) but for only one month and for just buying groceries which were all on sale I think its pretty good! 

 I never realized that shoppers actually has quite good prices on groceries! Milk and eggs are cheaper there than Walmart and RCSS! I have also got great deals on crackers, cookies, peanut butter and so many other things. The great part is that you can also still use coupons and get the points for the full price of the item.  So if I am buying cereal that's $5 and I have a coupon for $2 off I still get points on the full $5.  This is great when they have events like spend 50 get 20X points because you can actually spend a lot less than 50 and get   points that could be worth $20!

Another trick is to figure out about how much you will be spending when you go into the store and purchasing a gift card first because then you get points for buying the gift card and for your purchase.  I figure by the end of the year I should have enough points to get at least $250 in free stuff :) Just from buying things like milk and eggs! For anyone interested in the program you can read all about it here: http://www1.shoppersdrugmart.ca/en/Optimum.aspx

Right now shoppers also has a spin to win event on which is pretty fun! To play go here: https://www.optimumcollectgame.com/?