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Originally Posted by BuzzardsWife
I shop at Zellers instead of WAlmart now for the points. Plus I buy all my groceries at Safeway and gas up at Shell. I go to Rona for any of the stuff I used to go to Home Depot for
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Just be careful, as each of those three examples there you are paying more for getting your airmiles. I just did some renos around the house; bought everything at Home Depot. Was at Rona the other day and found everything was around 2-4% more expensive; or smaller. (ie bags of concrete were the same price, but HD sells a 30kg bag instead of a 25kg bag.)
As for gas, you can go to Co-op and get 10.5¢/litre off (not counting the 3.5¢ everybody gives), or Canadian Tire offers more CT money than the normal 3.5¢.
And I haven't checked it out recently, but I used to find Wal-Mart just a bit cheaper than Zellers. And with Zellers working out to 1 mile for $40 spent it wouldn't take much to make it worthwhile to shop elsewhere.
I always look at the "top up" price of Air Miles. If I'm a few miles short of a reward I can buy the ones I need for 33¢ each. If shopping at one store over an other is going to cost me more than 33¢ per mile, then I won't do it.