Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon collection

Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by Mister_Snuggles on Monday October 14, 2019 @04:27PM (#21252493)

I'm in Canada and shop at Sobeys, which owns the Safeway brand up here, thought there might be some relevance to me thanks to the .ca domain name. Unfortunately, there was no relevance but it was still an interesting read.

On a side note, Safeway and Sobeys in Canada don't have a loyalty program, instead they piggy back off of Air Miles. All of the special offers available just amount to bonus Air Miles, so they're not actually that worthwhile (IMO).

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Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by huangc10 on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:34PM (#21253144)

What a blast from the past. I am actually Canadian but have been living in the Bay Area for over 10 years so I've already forgotten that you can collect Air Miles through Safeway (which was why I clicked on this article in the first place thinking of the .ca)

I don't think Air Miles are completely useless. I do remember redeeming air miles at least once in the past for a one-way trip somewhere...

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Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by Mister_Snuggles on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:00PM (#21254913)

They're not completely useless, but I do find that I don't seem to get much benefit from them.

For example, I needed to rent two cars on a trip last year. The first car I was able to rent through Air Miles, but I had to pay the taxes and any fees beyond the base price myself so it didn't feel like much of a deal. The second car required more Air Miles than I had, so I had to pay for the whole thing myself, I couldn't do part on Air Miles and part cash.

I ended up renting the second car through Costco and felt like I got a better deal overall than I did with the first car.

Maybe rental cars aren't the best way to use them.

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