Kellogg cereal promotion
 

Has anyone seen the boxes of Kelloggs cereal that offer miles for purchases of certain brand of their cereals?

Is this an old offer or a new one. I can't seem to find any boxes that have information about this.

Thanks,Ron

"It looks like Kelloggs has started a FF promotion with American Airlines on certain brands of their Kelloggs and Healthy Choice cereals. There are 100 mile certificates printed on cartons of new shipments the following brands: Product 19, All-Bran, Cracklin' Oat Bran, Crispix, Just Right,
Complete, Mini-Wheats and Healthy Choice Low Fat Granola. Five 100 mile AAdvantage certificates are to be mailed in for each 500 mile AAdvantage certificate and the offer expires 6/30/2001."

It's been in effect for a couple of months. It's another easy way to score free miles, although the variety of cereals could be better. At least it's forcing me to eat a healthy breakfast! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

You can spot the boxes instantly by the big airplane at the bottom of the front panel. No airplane, no coupon.

In my area (northwest suburban Boston) the availability of boxes with the offer varies quite a bit from supermarket to supermarket. If you don't find them where you usually shop, try another chain.

In So Cal the "specially marked boxes" seem to be only with the most expensive cereals. Although the ad claims Corn Flakes has the offer I have yet to see a Corn Flakes box with the airplane on it!

I've found a few (6) boxes of Corn Flakes at Walmart, priced at $1.28. I bought 'em all, clipped the coupons, and donated the cereal to the local food pantry. As soon as more come in I'm there.

Bingo! They must have stocked the shelf with a new case! Bought all 12 @ $1.28/box, and had a $1 off coupon. Then sold 10 bags (notice who got the box!) to a neighbor who's kids love Corn Flakes for $10.

I had just unloaded the van, and had all 12 boxes lined up on the lawn while I brought in other groceries. My neighbor was driving by, saw a lawn with a line of 12 Corn Flakes boxes sitting there, and his curiosity got the better of him. He bought the 10 bags.

In my area, only Walmart has < $3 boxes of cereal with the 777 picture. The other chains stock the same cereal and sizes, but I never see the offer there, except on the "expensive" cereal.

As long as they keep stocking, I'll keep buying http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Papollo, are you pulling our collective leg?

According to the side panel on the Kellogg boxes that I have purchased, eight items are available that have the 100 mile offer. None of them is for Corn Flakes, let alone anywhere near the price of $1.28. At that price, I'd buy truck loads and feed the hungry. Let me know how I can buy Corn Flakes and get miles.

Wineman (soon to be cereal-man)

No sir, I've just clipped 20 coupons from the 20 boxes of Corn Flakes I've purchased over the past week. Everyone in my office eats Corn Flakes (or at least their families do), and they've offered to buy the cereal from me! I prefer to barter: I just got a laptop, and it didn't come with a travel bag. A fellow worker is married to someone who works at a famous Maine merchant. He can buy a travel bag someone returned, perfectly adequate to carry a laptop (in fact, downright nice!), at the Outlet Store pretty cheap. He'll trade Corn Flakes for one of the bags he bought for himself! Another worker has a great recipe for cookies that uses Corn Flakes. I'll give her a couple of bags, and she'll bake me a plate of cookies!

I'm not in the league of Pudding Guy, but he's an inspiration! And, the local Walmart is selling 12 oz boxes of Corn Flakes for $1.28. The 18 oz size is $1.95. I'll buy until the prices increase to where they're no longer worth buying.

Everybody's happy: Walmart is going through Corn Flakes like there's no tomorrow, the food pantry gets some cereal to distribute, my workers will trade with me, the guy down the street has his cereal, and I get miles. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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Papollo: Thanks for your response. Maybe American is distributing cereal in a particular pattern. I'm in South Florida where AA has a huge presence. There are no inexpensive cereals here. The least expensive I've seen is $3.69 for a small box of bran cereal. Perhaps AA wants to make it easier to get less expensive cereals in markets where they don't have a great presence. They are not giving the miles away out of pure generosity. Perhaps they plan to stop the distribution of the cheaper FF cereals when buyers have a greater interest in accruing more miles to finally get that "free ticket".

The fact that the promotion last for 18 months probably means the average buyer will have miles but not enough for a ticket. They will then becomes addicts like us and begin to buy tix on AA.

Wineman (in the cereal whirl)

I heard that corn flakes was added to the promotion, but I haven't seen any in the Chicago area. Dominicks has CF on sale for $1.50, but not the right ones. Are both the 12 oz and 18 oz both offering the certs or only the 18 oz size? I bought some on sale and found some buy 2 get one free coupons so it brought it doesn to about $1.65 a box. So, since the promo is around for awhile, I'd say wait for a sale and start collecting coupons. Our wal-marts here are not Super Wal-marts with grocery sections. Too bad.

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DtG

Where do you get the $1 off coupons?

The dollar off coupons (buy 2 boxes, get $1 off - but you can only use one coupon at a time) were in Sunday's paper, in a pullout coupon insert.

Walmart here sells the 12 and 18 oz sizes, with coupons. They also sell a 24(?) oz size, but no coupons.

And doesn't AA make money by selling a huge block of miles to Kelloggs? Somewhere on this board I saw that FF miles have become a profit center for the airlines.

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Attn. dgordon and other Chicago area FTers:
A super Wal-mart opened last week on Touhy Ave. in Niles and it has a grocery dept. I have not been in it so I don't know about the availability or price of the pertainent corn flakes. I may go in there this week-end, if so I'll report back.

I found the corn flakes which are on sale this week at Dominick's $1.50 each (18 oz) limit two at a time - so I made 3 orders, each pair of cereal had some items with them and therefore they were 3 separate purchases. They let me do it. I have 10 boxes. Had only one coupon, but have found another. The smaller Dominicks nearer me didn't have them, but a larger one did, intermingled with sesame street. So, papollo can you get the recipe for corn flake cookies???

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DtG

dgordon, I'll post the recipe in OMNI on Monday, as soon as I snag it from my co-worker.

I took a quick trip to VA & WV yesterday. I drove from DC to Beckley WV via I-81 and I-64. I tried to hit every Walmart Superstore along the way. (Isn't that the quintessential "Get A Life" statement for the day!) No Corn Flakes with miles. It is interesting to watch how the prices change for the same items along the way, though. The 12 oz box ranged from $1.15 to $1.89.

I came home to ME this morning, made a Walmart stop for my wife, and there they were - 12 more boxes waiting for me! I've got more neighbors clamoring for Corn Flakes, so for now I can offload these locally. Food Pantry definitely next week. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

And the bridge was great! I drove 350 miles to see a bridge, but it was worth it! If I feel confident, I'll post a trip report (there's LOTS of good writing here...don't know if I'm of that caliber...).

Are not talking about the Natural-Bridge? I just made the same drive a couple of weeks ago and I also stopped along the way. Pretty awesome site.

Actually, I bypassed the Natural Bridge on this trip and drove to the New River Gorge bridge, at Fayetteville VW. It is the longest metal arch bridge in the world, and the second highest. I'm a big bridge fan, and this one has been on my list to visit for a long time. It was awesome, and pictures don't do justice to the scale.

Papollo, just did that drive (saw the bridge- pretty neat) a couple weeks ago, going from Gatlinburg, Tenn. back to Western NY.
I have been checking for Corn Flakes with the mileage offer locally, but there are none in Batavia. I'll have to check in the larger neighboring cities of Rochester and Buffalo.

I just checked the WalMarts in southern Orange COunty, CA and their cereal boxes had NASCAR toys as premiums....unfortunately not frequent flyer miles!

I was in the Wal-Mart in Fairfax, VA yesterday. Corn Flakes, but no AA promo boxes.

It's odd (maybe random?) that the Walmart near me (and I live in a quite rural area) is the only place I've found the small boxes of Corn Flakes with the coupon. I'll have to check other superstores here in ME to see if they might also have them. I suspect they might, as they're probably all served by the same distribution center. The smaller box isn't a big seller, since the jumbo boxes are also sold, for only 70 cents or so more.

And I don't have a particular affinity for Corn Flakes! They just happen to be the cheapest cereal on the shelf having the coupon.

For those in the chicago area, dominicks has the 18 oz for $1.50 on sale this week, limit two and I have ones with the AA cert. The smaller box has them too but the bigger box is cheaper. So, I am looking forward to getting the cookie recipe. Any recipe for dog biscuits would be appreciated as well.

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DtG

saw the boxes in vons, but only the $4 per box cereal, but what about this,
buy the cereal cut off certs,
donate cereal, write of donation on taxes,
get UAL miles from Vons
get double points using Amex to pay for it.
would this be worth it for the 4 bucks?

FYI-the reason I started looking for Corn Flakes was because the ad with the coupon now has 9 cereals that apply: Complete, Corn Flakes, All Bran, MiniWheats (fruit flavor), Just Right, Product 19, Cracklin Oat Bran, Healthy Choice, and Crispix. So far, here in So Cal I have only been able to find 4 of the 9, and all over $4. Good Luck.

MileKing,

I've been watching the Germantown, MD WalMart--no luck yet. However, Giant has the 12 oz. box for 2.69; I'm waiting for it to go on sale...

I had an interesting thing happen today. I received an envelope from the company handling the coupons for Kellogs. I had inadvertently put an extra coupon in my envelope. They mailed it back to me with a nice note to be careful to keep them in groups of 500. I was surprised that they bothered to mail it back. http://216.167.74.240/forum/smile.gif

For those who live near a Safeway, I purchased two boxes of Kellogg's cereal last week and received a Safeway coupon for $1 off my next purchase of two boxes of Kellogg's cereal. I hope to find the bargains some of you have found at WalMart. Happy hunting!

I don't think it is worth spending $4.00 per box unless that is what you planned to spend anyway for that particular box of cereal. This promotion will be here for awhile, and Kelloggs does put their cereals on sale periodically. So it takes patience. To spend $4.00. you could spend that kind of money and actually fly somewhere and get those miles. It only pays if you can get them cheaply. The sunday papers have coupons, and dominicks also gave out a $2.00 off for 4 boxes of cereal. I think patience is the key. Just think, the $500 tax deductible donation (amounting to about $360 after taxes depending on your tax bracket)to WWF that clickrewards had (expired March 31) gave you 20,000 click- rewards. 10,000 of those could be converted to 20,000 starpoints. 20,000 starpoints could be converted to 25,000 miles (with 10,000 still remaining in the clickrewards account). That's 35,000 miles for $360 which would only buy you 90 boxes of cereal (at $4.00 each) for 9000 miles. So, there are better deals around unless you have a good use for the cereal AND you get it cheaply.

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DtG

Could you repeat that please? http://216.167.74.240/forum/biggrin.gif

It must be nice to live in an area where the food stores do name brand promos. I used to live in Arizona and miss the double and triple coupon deals at Safeway. Then after I move to NC, the UA miles for groceries deal comes out. Oh, well. I'll be resigned to paying more for food in the Charlotte market and singing the blues.

I have bought several of the cereals as I eat the mini wheats all the time, and have tried the oat bran because of the promo. There are boxes with the miles out there, but it takes a little look because here in the heart of NASCAR country they now have that promo going on.

As a shareholder in Kellogg, a stock that has taken a beating lately, I am glad to see that they are doing things to get market share back to what it once was.

Still "fighting" to get those healthy choice miles, though!

Jewel has corn flakes for $1.50. but not 1 box with the AA certs. I've been to 3 Jewel. Anyone in chicagoland have better luck find the right boxes of corn flakes at Jewel. The sale ends tomorrow.

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DtG

I was in two Jewels on the north side this week, neither one had the promo boxes. Must be holdin' out. Do ya suppose there's a "Cereal Guy" out there hoarding 'em? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

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These links might be useful
http://www.salesmountain.com/default.asp?BID=1037
http://www.shoppinglist.com/?_from=b%3dgoto1

They are both services that let you find out when various products are going on sale in your area. You input the product you are interested in (in this case the cereal) and they will e-mail you when it goes on sale in your area. Worked for me in Saint Louis on a number of items.

To qualify for a RT to Europe you need to buy 400 boxes. Even at $1.50 a box it doesn't seem like much of deal unless you actually would buy the cereal and eat it anyway. Am I missing something?

MVIC:

Thanks for the links. I was able to find 12oz boxes of Kellogg's Corn Flake's for 99 cents at my local Meijer with airmile certificates.

I just posted a recipe for using all those Corn Flakes in OMNI. And, I cleaned off the shelf at my local Walmart this morning - all 12 boxes. They also sell the larger boxes (18 oz size) with certificates, but at $2 a box I'll pass.

Sure, in cold, hard monetary terms the worth of doing this may be questionable. But, as I was quoted in the online WSJ this week, I'm having so much fun doing this! I'm been dubbed the certified neighbor flake (get it?!), I'm able to trade or sell most of what I buy, and with the rest I've started to cook using recipes I found on the www.kelloggs.com website. People at work that I don't even know stop me on campus and call me the Corn Flakes guy! My family and co-workers appreciate the goodies I'm cooking, I do a bit of dad-to-daughter bonding over the stove, and life is good!

Again, I'm not dropping hundreds of dollars at a time. (I go to Foxwoods for that http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/cool.gif .) It's an extra $15-30 dollars a week, much of which I get back one way or another. And, I've met people via this board who actually understand that what I'm doing can be useful and fun.

Keep shopping! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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A New York news radion station reported this morning that there was "a shortage of Corn Flakes" in the region due to a frequent flyer promotion. Nevertheless, the one supermarket I frequent has a bountiful supply of Corn Flakes, just none with the AA promotion. ---I take that back. At $2.39/box you can have your flakes and 100 miles too. Not an interesting deal.

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I live in a very rural area and have not found a good price on the cereal yet to justify getting much. My wife kind of likes it. The kids and I don't eat much cereal. Does anyone know of a big city food pantry/homeless organization that might make a deal with me? I would be interested in just having 5-10,000 boxes of the cereal delivered to them, if I could find a distributor who would do that for a reasonable price, and having them send me the coupons. Any ideas would be appreciated!

Check your phone book for the local St. Vincent de Paul Society. They run food banks, thrift stores, etc. They would probably be glad to have your boxes. I have two SVP groups in my area and both are glad to have a good quality cereal. Also, check for a Catholic Center of Concern. Both these groups have large volunteer bases who would probably be glad to have the cereal adn give you the coupons.

Unable to find any boxes here in Tucson other than $3.99 and $4.99 for Cracklin' Oat Bran, which, as far as I am concerned, tastes like sugared sawdust, which I would not even accept free! FEH!