Originally Posted by
askmrlee
If you are earning 2,000 miles a year through this program, it means that your spend is $333/month or $4,000/year which probably means that a Safeway grocery is currently your primary store. If you value the miles at a generous 2 cents/mile, it means you earned $40 in miles per year through this program or 1% back. Safeway's site says that it did away with this program as part of its "lower prices everyday" pricing program.
Example: I've noticed that Horizon Organic Milk at my local Safeway which used to cost $4.49 when not on sale (most of the time) and $3.49 when it was on sale now costs $3.99 as part of the "everyday pricing" program. I would prefer to take an 11% discount now vs. 1% in a mileage program that I may or may not be able to use. I believe you will probably save more $40 in a year or $3.33/month with their lower prices program than what you would have earned with the higher prices and miles program.
Of course your experience will vary greatly depending on your market basket. But if your prices are lower by 5% overall, you're probably better off without the mileage program.
well I suppose if you believe and take their rhetoric for face value. I chaulk that up as corporate spin talk. Grocery prices were already decreasing and have decreased as the fuel decreased a little. If what they claimed was true then Fred Meyer and walmart would be higher than safeway. Thats not really the case so wheres that money going? It aint going to lowering prices below the local FMV. Not into lowering food prices in the store. Its like some things in safeway are on sale 7 weeks out of every 8, why not just make that the regular price and then do a sale 1 week on that? 18 count eggs come to mind. Here they run a sale about 3 weeks on sale at $1.99 with 1 week off for $2.99 or something. If it can be a "sale" that often that should be regular price anbd the sale should be 99 cents or $1.49? No? They werent on this weeks sale so Im figuring they will be starting tomorrow for the new week. Safeway/Carrs is a coniving bunch so its hard to tell whats really the reason behind this mileage program cut but I really have my doubts that their main concern is to help the little guy
Last edited by ANC; Jan 26, 2010 at 8:09 pm