Showing posts with label Canadian Tire Money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canadian Tire Money. Show all posts

Monday, April 9, 2018

Canadian Tire to revamp loyalty program - now called Triangle and will include updated Mastercards


Canadian Tire has announced that they are revamping their 60 year old loyalty program which has simply been known as Canadian Tire Money. The program along with its Options Mastercards will now be known as Triangle, named after the iconic Canadian Tire triangle logo. It is being touted as the loyalty program's biggest revamp in 6 decades - a name change and updates to the Mastercards they offer from Canadian Tire Financial as well as a push to educate Canadians that you can earn Canadian Tire Money (still the loyalty currency of the new Triangle program) as places like Sport Chek and select Marks and Atmosphere locations. The latter of which  we discussed back in January.

From the details we received from Canadian Tire, it looks like the biggest changes are coming in the Mastercards being issued by CTFS as they move to a cash back style model that rewards you with Canadian Tire Money rather than the multiplier of Canadian Tire Money currently seen. For example the current Options Mastercards earn 10x Canadian Tire Money for Canadian Tire, Sport Chek, Marks and Atmosphere purchases and 2x Canadian Tire Money for all other purchases. The new cards will offer 4% back in the Canadian Tire, Sport Chek, Marks category and 0.8% to 1% back for all other purchases except the Triangle World Elite Mastercard will also earn 3% back for grocery purchases (up to $12,000 in those purchases annually)


What we don't know yet is what the earn rate of Canadian Tire Money will be at these stores when you don't use their credit cards.

Update: Canadian Tire has reached out to us to let us know the Triangle Rewards earn rate without the credit card will be 0.4%.

The program has never published a set earn rate previously and the terms and conditions say the earn rate will vary from time to time. Also will be interesting to see if you can double dip in the new program as the old program did not allow that, it just multiplied the earn rate if you did use an options credit card. The base earn rate of these new cards are quite weak and really only make sense for those people who shop a lot Canadian Tire, Sport Chek, Marks and Atmosphere stores.

Update from Canadian Tire: 
To confirm the process in-store – if the customer is not a Triangle Rewards member, or does not present proof of membership at the time of purchase, the customer will be offered physical Canadian Tire Money back if they make their purchase using debit or cash, otherwise, they’ll earn Canadian Tire Money back on their Triangle Rewards card.

So it almost seems like there will not be a double dip - you'll earn 4% when you use the Triangle Mastercard at their stores, not 4.4% that would happen with a double dip if they allowed it.

Once the new program is live and the credit cards are released we'll have more details and will also add the cards to our cash back credit card comparison charts.

Monday, January 22, 2018

January 22 Update: Why No Forex Fees cards are few and far between in Canada, Earn My Canadian Tire Money at Sport Chek

Many people are asking about No Foreign Transaction Fee credit cards due to the upcoming loss of the Chase Marriott and Amazon Visas. Most questions revolve around what cards still offer it (Home Trust Preferred Visa and HSBC Premier World Elite MasterCard) while there are others that the rewards on Foreign Transaction fees get you ahead of the fee amount (Rogers Mastercard, American Express Cobalt Card to name a couple) We also get a lot of questions on whether there will be any new cards that offer the No FX fee option and we answer that question in our old article: Why 'no foreign transaction fees' hasn't proliferated in the Canadian credit card market.  So we don't have our hopes up that any new cards will come out with this option but there is the slight possibility we'll see more cards offer it but the rest of the rewards/benefits on the card will be weak to make up for the loss of revenue.

Missed this one some how until I shopped at Sport Chek today. We now know why Sport Chek dropped Cineplex's SCENE program at the end of October as you can now earn My Canadian Tire Money for purchases as Sport Chek, Atmosphere and Mark's. Only makes sense since Canadian Tire owns the parent company of all those stores. Find out more here.

TAP Portugal is increasing their flights between Toronto and Lisbon for the summer season with a sixth weekly flight. TAP is a member of the Star Alliance which means you can earn and burn miles from many programs including Aeroplan, TAP's Victoria program and many more partners. (Source Routesonline)

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Sep 9 Update: Canadian Tire Money goes digital, Gate Numbering Change at YYC, save up to 25% on Hyatt stays

Non travel rewards news and more for you today!

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.

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