Tuesday, February 23, 2016

PC PLUS





President’s Choice
Superstore and No Frills has an amazing program called PC Plus.  At the checkout a cashier will give you an application for this program, and you receive a card right away.  I have also downloaded the PC Plus App to my phone and registered my card to receive weekly emails.  My husband also has his own card to compare Bonus Offers.
Each Thursday the PC Plus programs sends you new PC offers.  The offers begin to be catered to your shopping habits, and often have bonus points on items we purchase for our family anyways.  Also the weekly flyers have PC Plus points offers by select items in the flyer.  HOWEVER, if an item has bonus points in the SuperStore flyer and you purchase it at No Frills, YOU DO NOT GET THE PC Points.  Although No Frills is my favorite store, if there are items at Super Store with great product bonus points, I will pop into Super Store for that item only. 
What I like about the PC Plus phone app is that it keeps track of your transactions.  Every month I can click on the My Account section, and view my transactions.  It is a good reality check on roughly how much I spend a month on groceries.
PC World Elite Master Card is a card we use for shopping at No Frills, Super Store and Shoppers Drug Mart.  Charging purchases at these three stores equals more points.  We pay these off monthly and find it worth while for the monthly redemptions.  This credit card used to be our primary card and we found the points racked up faster.  (We have changed our focus to another credit card with air miles for a free vacation someday)
 When you receive 20,000 PC Points you can redeem at the cash for $20, and every 10,000 points after.  30,000 points $30 etc.  We redeem on average $20 per month.   Usually it takes us about 2 months to get enough points for a $20 redemption, but between the two cards it works out well.  We used to save our points and redeem in December to have extra money for Christmas. Now that we are focused on the mortgage, we redeem as soon as we can and plop that amount on our mortgage as an extra payment.

Organizing for supper

Our deep freezer was bursting at the seams, a great problem to have, but it can be a challenge. I was soon going to count getting ingredient...