Ahh. The bustling crowds at the mall. Are you getting excited? Think of it: in every city across Canada, hours have been extended and decorations hung in anticipation of the RUSH. You know the one I mean: the parking lot scramble, forgetting where you put your car and carrying 15 heavy bags and ending up in tears (maybe that’s just me), lining up for the must-have toy of the season because you know it’ll make your little one cry tears of joy.
I have made a vow this year to do a lot of my shopping online. Do I trust online shopping? Absolutely. Even credit card companies protect us these days. Must I worry about store closing times, a perfectly coiffed friend seeing me in sweats or getting lost in a mall? No.
As I write I’m distracted by the thought of a roaring fire and glass of eggnog. The dog is snuggled at my feet and I’m watching Casablanca in the background as I browse online for holiday gifts. For others, of course. Bliss.
Though I have been an AIR MILES Collector for 20 years, I didn’t discover airmilesshops.ca until this year. Shocked, all of the stores I was planning to visit both North and South of the border are actually online – and I will earn reward miles for my shopping. As a bonus, many of the stores on airmilesshops.ca have offers to earn 2x, 3x even 10x the reward miles on your purchases. In fact, right now for Black Friday you can earn 10x the reward miles on your purchases with airmilesshops.ca until December 4th.
All stores on airmilesshops.ca ship to or within Canada and many offer a special Canadian checkout section where purchases are priced in Canadian dollars. Wow! I get so frustrated when I go through the process on a website only to discover that the store ships only to the US. Nobody should put baby in a corner.
Want to know the stores? Let’s start with Anthropologie, shall we? And then the Apple Store Canada. Followed by a few of my favourites for each family member:
Son: Lego.com
Other Son: TOMS Canada
Mother: Hudson’s Bay Company
Me: Sephora
Husband: Bose Canada
Me from Husband: Victoria’s Secret or FTD
Dog: PetSmart
Father-in-Law: Snapfish
Cool Kid down the block: Roots
Girlfriends like me: Bloomingdales, Ann Taylor and Neiman Marcus.
My ‘work’ is done.
So as packages come in (or are wrapped and shipped directly to the recipient saving me a trip to the post office), you may hear a little squeal from me. And each order I make is adding to my growing bank of AIR MILES reward miles and reducing my holiday to-do list. With this lack of stress combined with my extra AIR MILES reward miles, I might just have to hop a plane to Hawaii for New Year’s.
<Only Half Joking>.
In terms of shipping, the individual stores do that. Visit airmilesshops.ca to start your own holiday shopping!
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