AIR MILES Mega Miles was set to launch this week but has now been postponed + MORE Mar 18th

The ever popular AIR MILES Mega Miles event was slated to start tomorrow but it has now been postponed in light of COVID-19 situation in Canada. AIR MILES reached out to us this morning and provided the following:”As a result of the developments surrounding COVID-19, we have decided to postpone the MEGA MILES promotion currently planned to launch on March 19, 2020. As we continue to learn more about COVID-19 situation and respond accordingly, new dates have not yet been selected. We ask Collectors for their patience while we work on finalizing new dates for MEGA MILES. We will proactively communicate the new MEGA MILES dates when they are solidified.”AIR MILES also advised us that they will update the airmiles.ca/megamiles site with an FAQ later today.In some ways I’m not surprised they have postponed it given the current situation, I do hope however that AIR MILES and its sponsors come out with some healthy promotions for the type of shopping people will need to be doing over the coming weeks – groceries, drug stores etc…

More Rewards big promotion called Pile up the Points has returned until April 8. Last seen in August of 2019 this is the More Rewards equivalent of AIR MILES’ Mega Miles (which was officially postponed today) The promotion awards bonus More Rewards points when you shop or collect points from multiple More Rewards partners. Bonuses are awarded as follows:Shop at 3 Partners 2,000 PointsShop at 4 Partners 5,000 PointsShop at 5 Partners 20,000 PointsThese are the participating partners:Save-On-Foods, Urban Fare, PriceSmart Foods (Count as 1 partner)Petro-CanadaTMPanago PizzaJim Pattison Auto Group Speedy GlassAccent InnsCoast Hotels Vancouver Attractions Vancouver Hino Oxygen Yoga and FitnessMore Rewards Insurance (receive a quote or purchase)More Rewards Travel (valid only for cash purchases) Couple of notes for the promotion this time round. First, their three grocery store brands only count as one partner, last time they were all separate partners. Second, given the current situation in our country and globally it will probably be tough to get to 5 partners…

Of course only a few days after we put up our post “In light of what’s going on in the world should you shift to a cash back credit card instead of a travel card? Why not a card that has both?” we come to find Scotia Rewards is changing many of their Pay for Credit rates (aka cash back rate), Gift Card rates and Apple/Best Buy Catalog redemption rates. Guess this change was announced back in January and we missed it and Scotia didn’t let us know either. In our piece from earlier this we really focused on the Pay with Points option that many travel rewards and proprietary credit card programs provide as a great stop-gap redemption item in the new world we live in right now. This is where you get to redeem points against almost any purchase you make with a card but still have the choice to redeem for travel or other options. And in our piece we touted that Scotia Rewards was a really good option for paying down your credit card balance to help with your finances and that got devalued – well as of May 4th it does…