News, Tips & Tricks
Canadian Tire announced today that they are entering the digital age with their Canadian Tire Money program. Here is an excerpt from the press release:
Today, Canadian Tire announced the evolution of its much beloved loyalty platform, introducing My Canadian Tire 'Money'™, an easier way to collect and redeem Canadian Tire 'Money'. The program will launch in Nova Scotia on October 10 and to customers nationally on October 28, 2014. The digital rewards program will complement paper Canadian Tire 'Money', which will remain in circulation.
My Canadian Tire 'Money' combines the best attributes of Canadian Tire's paper 'Money' with the benefits of a digital rewards program, making it easier and faster for customers to collect, and redeem. Members can collect e-Canadian Tire 'Money' on qualifying purchases at Canadian Tire stores, at canadiantire.ca and at participating Canadian Tire gas bar locations. e-Canadian Tire 'Money' can also be redeemed for merchandise and gift cards or donated to Canadian Tire's Jumpstart charity. Customers can also collect and redeem e-Canadian Tire 'Money' on automotive services, a benefit to the updated program.Love to hear your thoughts on this addition to the program. I know for me I stopped using Canadian Tire money long ago as I got a bigger reward using my travel rewards credit cards for CT purchases rather than cash or debit to earn the CT Money. I don't think these changes will affect how I shop at Canadian Tire nor how I pay for my CT purchases.
If you are traveling to, from or via Rewards Canada's hometown airport of Calgary (YYC) we would like to let you know that on September 18th all the gates are being renumbered in preparation for the completion of the new International Terminal expansion, which will add two new concourses to YYC. Concourse D will now become A, B/C will only be B and A will become C.
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I have a nice trick to earning Canadian Tire Money while still earning credit card rewards. Before heading to CT, I purchase a CT gift card at a grocery store using my Scotiabank Momentum Visa Infinite Card. This card gives me 4% back at grocery stores. When I use the gift card for my purchase at CT, I earn CT Money because I'm paying with "cash." So I've essentially earned more than 4% back while using my Visa. The downside is that you don't get the benefit of your card's purchase insurance, and you'll need to have an idea of how much you'll be spending beforehand.
ReplyDeleteOf course! I always tell people to do this for places like the Gap, Future Shop (check if you need your insurance) Old Navy etc. Never thought of CT though! Thanks for passing this along.
ReplyDeleteWe have been poring over the mailing from Canadian Tire and we figure it must be someting bad, because we can't make head or tail of it.
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