7 Quick Ways To Maximize Your PC Optimum Points

PC Optimum is a rewards program from Loblaws. If you are wondering how to earn and redeem the PC Points – its absolutely free to collect and redeem the PC Points. You just make the regular purchases at Shopper’s, ESSO, Superstore and as you pay at checkout, you present your PC Optimum card and earn the points. In this article, we’ll be looking at all the quick ways you can maximize earning PC Points faster and redeem them so much sooner!

Here’s a quick fact – PC Plus and Shoppers Optimum rewards programs were combined into a single program – PC Optimum on February 1, 2018. 

Let me talk a bit about myself alright, please. It will throw some light on why points cards are so good in today’s world. Now then, there are a ton of points cards in Canada right – you have the Air Miles, Aero Miles, WestJet Points card, PC Optimum, Esso Gas Card, Hudson’s Bay Card, Petro Canada Card and so on and so forth.

If you are a frequent shopper at the Canadian Superstore, Shoppers Drug Mart or Loblaws retail stores you should have been migrated over to a new PC Optimum points card by now. In this article, let’s take a look at the 7 quick ways to maximize your PC Optimum points in 2020 (7 steps in-fact which I have personally used and recommend to everyone!). Let’s get started.

How Many PC Optimum Points Will I Earn Per Dollar?

First of all, PC Optimum Card is absolutely FREE to get! So grab one soon. You have nothing to lose here. The easiest way to get one is the gas stations – Esso especially. They have plenty of em. 

Next, load the card onto your Apple wallet so that swiping out during checkouts will be easier. (I hate physical card, sorry folks).

Finally, why not earn more per dollar spent. Welcome to PC Optimum 🙂

With the PC Optimum Points program, here’s how you’ll accumulate a ton of PC Points sooner than ever. All you need to do is, register yourself (which will take a couple of minutes), add the digital PC Optimum card to your Apple Wallet, scan the card while checking out. That’s it! 

You will be able to see the updated PC points on your account in like 15 minutes. That’s how quick and efficient the app is. 

Here’s how you can accumulate PC Points quickly – 

• Easily accumulate 10 PC Optimum points per dollar spent at the Canadian Superstore

• You’ll make 15 points per $1 spent at Shoppers Drug Mart stores

• You can redeem 10,000 PC optimum points for $10 worth of goods at any Loblaw stores

• The minimum redemption threshold is now lowered to 10,000 points (for $10), making it easier to redeem points

• PC Optimum Points Redemptions are in the increments of 10,000 points. For example – $10, $20, $30 and so on.

• You’ll be able to redeem up to 500,000 points for a single transaction (equates to $500 per transaction).

• You can also earn points at any of the Loblaws stores in Canada using the PC Optimum points card or by downloading the mobile app.

7 Quick Ways To Maximize Your PC Optimum Points 

PC Optimum Loyalty program is one of the most popular loyalty programs and points cards in Canada.  

The program is free to join and is widely accepted at over 4500+ stores across the country. Redeeming the points is simple as well, 10000 points = $10 off. 

If you’re thinking earning 10,000 points is difficult or takes a ton of time, no it’s not. The reason being,  once you sign up for the PC Optimum card, you’ll enter your email address. 

Then, every week you’ll start receiving the weekly flyers ( which I will talk in a minute), by looking at the flyer you’ll get to know the bonus offers and the points you’ll get by purchasing it.

For example – A $1 candy can give you 500 bonus points. The bonus offers can be anything, need not be you’ll have to purchase something worth $100 to make 100 bonus points. It can even be a cookie or candy which you like. 

Below is the list of 7 easy ways to maximize your PC Optimum points and earn more rewards. 

1. Always Lookout For The Weekly Flyer Offers 

When you initially sign up for the PC Optimum points program, the company will start sending you weekly emails with personalized offers.

For example – this week one of my personalized offers was 800 points for every $4 spent on groceries. Weekly offers do not co-relate to the other in-store offers or discounts.

For example – I could buy the groceries on sale at a discount of 50% and still earn points as per the offers.

You should be getting the weekly personalized offers every week on Thursday and it is valid until Wednesday of the next week. So do sign-up or opt for the weekly newsletter. It’s pretty good and personalized based on your spending habits across stores.

I would highly recommend doing this as a first step. 

2. PC Bonus Point Events – Weekly Flyers 

You can always, round the year find exciting In-Store promotional offers to Maximize your PC Optimum Points. You just need to grab a quick weekly flyer.

PC Bonus point events are very frequent. On the recent bonus offer was – Get 40,000 points when you spend $300 or more in a single transaction.

Sometimes, these bonus offers are a lot juicier, like the one my friend got the other week for “9500 points when you spend $35 on fresh produce” That’s converted to a good 35% in rewards!

Take a look at the Shoppers Drug Mart In-Store Current Offers by Clicking here. 

Some of the weekly bonus offers are for free items. The bonus offers are sometimes sent through email, they may show up in your personalized offers, or you may find them on the weekly store flyers.

Once in a while, we stock up on our usual necessities such as toiletries, diapers in order to take advantage of these bonus offers before it expires.

Other bonus points events include the popular Shoppers Drug Mart “spend $60 or more on almost anything and earn 15x the points”

3. Refine Your Personalized Email Offers

The personalized email offers you get weekly is based on what you normally buy at stores with the PC Optimum points card.

However, If you are getting offers on a product you are no longer interested in buying; you can simply click on the offer link and choose the option as – Don’t show again.

When you do this, the offer is gone and the best part of doing this is – PC Optimum in-built algorithm learns and shows you other product offers that are more efficient and better personalized on what you want.

Let me tell you another trick which is pretty useful all the time – you can always save an item you find interesting for later.

In order to do this – You need to click on the product offer and choose – Save for next week.

Doing so – will save an offer for later, giving you extra time to redeem it.

Not all offers give you this option – but do look out for. It’s worthwhile. 

How I recently earned 21,090 Optimum Points in One Single Transaction at Shoppers Drug Mart

Recently I was at the Shoppers Drug Mart in Mississauga. Long story short, I had the promo offer right across in my mobile app – which said earn 7500 points when you spend $50 or more on almost anything in-store at Shoppers. Luckily, I was about to walk-in to the store to get myself a new Philips trimmer. 

As you can see the screenshots below – The trimmer cost me close to $85 with tax included. And how many optimum points I got? Make a quick guess. 

I got a cool 21,090 points with this one single transaction. (Screenshot below). Now, isn’t that cool and nice to have to accumulate over time. We all buy from different stores and adding up points is as easy as this. 

 

4. Pay By PC Financial Mastercard And Earn More PC Points Faster

You will earn points faster when you use the in-house PC Financial Mastercard combined with PC Optimum points card for your regular purchases.

Let’s take a quick example :