Safeway Monopoly Game – Shop, Play Win
The Safeway Monopoly Game 2022 is not happening this year.
Due to supply chain shortages nationwide, there will not be a Monopoly Game in 2022.
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New in 2021
The prize options are worth $230 million in cash, prizes, and money-saving offers this year!
There will be one $1M cash prize available as an Instant Win Ticket as well as a Vacation Home Prize valued at $250,000, Groceries for Life Prize (awarded as $25,00 in Gift Cards and $175,000 cash), 3 Vehicle of Choice Prizes valued at $50,000, 5 Mortgage for a Year Prizes valued at $25,000, two $100,000 Instant Prizes, a mortgage payoff prize, over 4 million instant digital prizes and a daily $1,000 Sweepstakes Giveaways plus more great prizes!.
See below for details on how to play the Monopoly game at Safeway and Albertsons banners listed above, the game pieces, how to play digitally, and more! Each week we will highlight the Monopoly game bonus ticket items on sale in the Safeway Weekly Ad Preview and in the Safeway Sale and Coupon Matchups.
The Monopoly game tickets will be available at all Safeway, Albertsons, United Supermarkets, Tom Thumb, Jewel-Osco, VONS, Amigos, Carrs, Star Market, Pavilions, Acme and Randall’s stores. The tickets will be given out until May 4th and you can play online through May 18th.
How to Play Monopoly at Safeway 2021:
Step 1: Register to play
Download the shopplaywin app and login with your Safeway Just for U account information. Alternatively, you can play online at shopplaywin.com. You must also have a Just for U account to play. It can be an online account or an app account, but it is essential to play Monopoly. Read all about Just for U here.
Step 2: Get Monopoly Instant Win Game Tickets
Every time you shop at Safeway and purchase specially tagged participating Monopoly items, you will get a game ticket. You can get extra game tickets for every $25 you spend, up to $100.
For every 10 participating items in one transaction, you will get an extra bonus ticket. The cashier will know the number of tickets to give based on a tally on your printed receipt.
Inside the game tickets, you will find the digital game pieces. It could be one of the following:
- Instant Win Prize
- SHOP, PLAY, WIN! Digital Game Code
- Store Coupon
How to Play Shop, Play, Win! Digital Game
There is one bar code with a 16 digit alpha-numeric code on the tickets this year. You need to scan the bar code with the shopplaywin app or enter the code online at shopplaywin.com to track your game markers.
The digital game code will bring up a Match 3 to win screen. Select 3 cards and hit submit to see if you win.
If you Match 3 Cards you will see your prize displayed. If it’s a Just for U cash prize or free product, the prize is loaded directly to your Just for U account under My List. No need to clip the coupon as it’s automatically added to your account and will be deducted the next time you shop.
If you do not win, you will have an opportunity to select a consolation prize.
Choose either the red chance card or the blue chance card to reveal your consolation prize.
The consolation prizes are tokens that you can use to win bigger prizes like a $1,000 daily cash drawing, a trip to Universal Studios Orlando, a $5,000 vacation, and more prizes shown below.
Important Notes about the Game Tickets:
- Game tickets will only be awarded during the transaction in which they are earned.
- Customers are limited to one transaction per three-hour period.
- Purchases made online for Drive Up and Go or home delivery will NOT qualify for Game Tickets. The distribution of the Game Tickets is based on the Market Store’s prior year activity and prior year mail-in requests.
You can also receive one Game Ticket and one bonus Game Ticket (two Game Tickets total) by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope (“SASE”) to SHOP, PLAY, WIN! Game Ticket Request, Attn: Promotions Coordinator, P.O. Box 3058, Kennesaw, GA 30156.
- Mail-in requests, including both outer envelope and SASE, must be handwritten and must be postmarked no sooner than MARCH 3, 2021, no later than April 27, 2021 and must be received no later than May 4, 2021.
Monopoly Tokens
You will get tokens as a consolation prize when you don’t match 3 cards.
The tokens can be redeemed for cash or product rewards or an entry into a Token Sweepstakes. Each token sweepstakes has its own entry requirements and end date.
To play the online game code, scan or enter the Shop, Play, Win Online Code into the app or the website to reveal your online game token prize. The site or app will reveal if you are a potential winner of tokens.
You can spend the tokens on the daily $1,000 cash sweepstakes, or on the big-ticket sweepstakes like a $1,000,000 super cash prize and more prizes to come!
To spend the tokens, simply select the sweepstake you want to enter and add a token to be entered for that prize.
Lastly, you can spend your tokens on Just for U cash, which is free money loaded directly to your Just for U account, or free products.
- $5 Just for U Cash is 80 tokens
- $10 Grocery Gift Card is 150 tokens
- $15 Just for U Cash is 200 tokens
- $20 Just for U Cash is 240 tokens
- $25 just for U Cash is 275 tokens
You can also use the tokens for gas and grocery rewards – 30 tokens get you gas and grocery rewards that are loaded directly to your Safeway Just for U Rewards.
Gas / Grocery Reward is good for 10¢ off per gallon of gas, up to 25 gallons. Allow up to 24 hours for Gas Rewards to appear in your just for U® program or rewards! program account. Gas Rewards from this promotion will expire at the end of the month following the one in which they were awarded.
You can also redeem tokens for free products. The free products will require 20-60 tokens depending on the item selected. The free products are loaded automatically to your Just for U account and displayed under My List.
As an alternative to Rewards or entries into Token sweepstakes, each Participant can choose to donate 1¢ for each Token to be given to Albertson’s Nourishing Neighbors. A maximum of $250,000 may be awarded in the Promotion to charity (e.g., if 25,000,000 tokens are redeemed).
Monopoly Prizes
Instant Win Prizes:
- 1 $1M Cash Prize
- 1 Vacation Home Prize valued at $250,000
- 1 Groceries for Life Prize (awarded as $25,00 in Gift Cards and $175,000 cash)
- 3 Vehicle of Choice valued at $50,000
- 5 Mortgage for a Year valued at $25,000
- 7 Property Tax for a Year valued at $10,000
- 70 Groceries for a Year Prizes valued at $5,000 each
- 100 $1,000 Cash Prizes
- 300 Utilities for Month prizes valued at $500 each
- 900 $250 Grocery Gift Card
- 1,250 $100 Cash prizes
- 2,000 $50 cash prizes
- 4,000 $25 Just for U cash prizes
- 8,000 $10 Just for U cash prizes
- 40,000 $5 Just for U Cash prizes
- 200,000 $2.00 Just for U Cash prizes
- 1,000,000 $1.00 Just for U cash prizes
- 23M Free Product Prize ranging in value between $.60 and $15.50
Instant Discount Prizes
- 328M Instant Coupons Offers
- General Mills Box Tops for Education prizes
- Free Shutterfly Photobooks
- Shutterfly Canvas, free prints, ornaments, personalized phone case
- AmeriGas Propane Tank Exchange
- Redbox Rental Offers
Match 3 Game Code Prizes
2,173 Prizes; total ARV $1,948,000
- 1 $100,000 Cash prize
- 12 $10,000 Cash prizes (one per Division)
- 216 Groceries for Year prizes (two winners per week per Division) (ARV $5,000 each)
- 324 $1,000 Cash three winners per week per Division for a total of 27 winners per division)
- 540 Groceries for a Month Gift Card prizes (five winners per week per Division for a total of 45 winners per division)*** (ARV $400 each);
- 1,080 Groceries For a Week Gift Card prizes (ninety per Division)*** (ARV $100 each).
Token Prizes & Drawings:
- 12 $50,000 Big Payday (one guaranteed winner per division) – you need 3 tokens to enter, the drawing takes place May 19th
- 4 $25,000 Shopping Sprees – you need 2 tokens to enter and there are 4 drawings – March 24th, April 14th, April 28th and May 19th
- 12 $5,000 Vacations – you need 1 token to enter and there are 12 drawings for the vacation prize.
- 3 Universal Orlando Resort Vacations for Four valued at $6,238 – you need 1 token to enter and there are 3 drawings for this prize – March 26th, April 23rd, and May 19th
- 1 Spirit Untamed Premiere Trip for Two valued at $5,500 – you need 1 token to enter and the drawing for this prize will take place May 19th
- 1 Minions Rise of Gru Premiere Trip for Two valued at $5,500 – you need 1 token to enter and the drawing for this prize will take place May 19th
- 24 prizes for a Year’s Worth of Gas ($2,000 each) – 2 drawings for each of the 12 divisions – you need 1 token to enter and the drawings take place April 7th and May 20th
- 77 $1,000 Cash Prizes
Monopoly Product Coupons
One of the best parts (in this blogger’s opinion) of the new game this year is that game tickets with product coupons must be scanned or entered online rather than handed over as paper coupons in the stores.
The reason this is so great is that you can scan, shop, and save! No matter if you are ordering groceries online, using the drive up and go service, or shopping in person, the savings are loaded automatically to your Just for U account, so they deduct automatically when you purchase the items.
No paper coupons will be accepted in-store. They must all be scanned or manually entered using the online system. Once scanned, you can throw the paper coupons away as they cannot be rescanned and we come up as a duplicate. They have no value in-store, only when entered digitally.
Once scanned or entered the coupons appear in the Just for U app or on the website under My List. No need to ‘load’ the coupons as they are automatically loaded and activated.
The coupons are considered ‘digital store coupons’ and as such can be stacked with manufacturer coupons.
I do understand the inconvenience for people who don’t have a smartphone or tablet because the 16-digit numeric coupon codes must be entered online manually, but it goes quickly and the coupons are automatically added to your club card.
Safeway Monopoly Game Board
There is no game board in 2021 – the game is 100% digital and can be played online or through the shopplaywin app.
There will still be game tickets given to customers when they shop. However, there will not be glue strips on the back and there is no need to stick the pieces to anything unlike in the past games.
Monopoly Prizes and Safeway Monopoly Rare Game Pieces
Because the game is 100% digital this year – and there is a chance to win the 1M prize through an instant win ticket, the rare game pieces are the big-ticket instant win prizes.
Safeway Monopoly Shop, Play, Win App:
The absolute easiest way to play Monopoly is by downloading the Shop, Play Win app from Google Play for Android or the iTunes App Store to quickly and easily manage all your online game pieces. Be sure to log in using your Safeway Just for U account.
If you don’t have an account, simply register and you can scan the online game bar codes to determine if you are an instant winner and also track your game markers through the app.
How to Play Safeway Monopoly Online
You can watch a video overview about how to play the Safeway Monopoly Game online here: Safeway Monopoly Game 2021 Computer
Step 1: Visit shopplaywin.com and click on the red box that says PLAY THE GAME
Step 2: Choose Your Store by clicking on the store logo where you shop.
Step 3: Register for the game by signing in with your Safeway or Albertsons affiliate Just for U login information. If you do not have a Just for U account, you can sign up for one from this page as well. You just need an email and your ten-digit phone number associated with your account. Easy peasy!
Step 4: When you receive a Digital Game Code Ticket, enter the 16 digits alpha-numeric code below the barcode into the site.
You’ll be prompted to pick 3 cards to match to see if you won in the Match 3 game.
If you win a cash prize or free product, the item is loaded to your Just for U account, under My List automatically. If you win a larger prize in the Match 3 game, you will receive an email and you will need to complete a form to redeem for your prize.
If you do not win by matching the cards, you will select a 2nd chance card. The prizes for the 2nd chances are tokens that you can then redeem for free products, cash, and entries into sweepstakes.
To redeem your tokens, click on the Red Spend Tokens button on the top left, or navigate through the three-line hamburger navigation button.
You’ll see your token balance, plus various ways to spend your tokens. As states in the prizes section above, you can use the tokens for Just for U cash, a daily $1,000 sweepstakes, gas and grocery rewards, free products, and more.
Entering Instant Win Digital Coupons online
If you have product coupon game tickets, the codes must be entered online or scanned via smartphone or tablet. No paper coupons will be accepted in-store.
Simply enter the code on the product coupon and the coupon will automatically be added to your Safeway club card/Just for U account.
You can see it under My List in your account settings. See the highlighted boxes of the Safeway Just for U site below. The instant win product prizes and coupons are loaded under My List.
Last Chance Drawing:
Safeway guarantees a $1M winner.
If the one $1M Cash prize is not claimed, then one $1 Million Cash Prize will be awarded through a ‘Last Chance Drawing’.
Each SHOP, PLAY WIN Match 3 Digital Code entered and all SHOP, PLAY, WIN! mail-in entries received by May 18, 2021, will result in an entry into the Last Chance Sweepstakes and will be eligible for the drawing.
Just for your information – the winner of the 2020 Monopoly Game was a Denver Safeway shopper and she used all her tokens in the 2nd chance sweepstakes drawing for the $1M and was randomly selected, so people do win in the last chance drawings.
Therefore, you have better odds of winning in the last chance drawing by scanning all your digital tickets as all digital entries will be eligible for the drawing.
Good luck – may the odds be ever in your favor!
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1,231 thoughts on “No Safeway Monopoly Game 2022”
As a loyal player of this game, I am really disapponited with the changes this year. I love the old way. I love collecting the tickets. It is more fun. That is a game. Not like this year, a lot of restrictions which restrains people from playing. I was expecting the game this year. But the only thing I found now is disappointment. In the comments, I found that I’m not the only one disappointed. In the past, as long as you make a purchase, no matter how much, no matter what products, you can get one ticket. Now you have to make a purchase for at least $25 just to get one ticket.This reduces the opportunity to get a ticket. And if the buyer is an old person or disabled person who do not know how to use a smartphone, his or her right to play this game will be deprived of by the new rules. And also for people who don’t have a smartphone or a computer, they cannot play this game. And sometimes the system doesn’t work. It makes people impossible to play this game. And as what is said in the article, we used to be able to exchange the tickets we need. Now we can do nothing to help each other. I really hate the new rules this year. Bring back the old game! If the company cannot afford to play this game, don’t toy with us.
Yes, you must have a smartphone or a computer to play the 2021 Monopoly game. So, I agree with you that it sucks if you don’t have either. You might still be able to play the game by going to a public library branch that has computer/internet access and use their computer. I did this for part of one year’s monopoly game after my-then computer failed and I could not afford to immediately replace it.
However, the vast majority of people DO have either a smartphone or a desktop computer (or both). A pew research document from 2019:
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/
shows 81% of adults owning a smartphone in 2019 (so both you and I are in a distinct minority), and nearly 75% of adults owning a desktop or laptop computer that year.
Another site showing year-by-year smartphone penetration of US market:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/201183/forecast-of-smartphone-penetration-in-the-us/
shows that 72.2% of all US citizens (not just adults) had smartphones in 2020.
I really, really do not like smartphones (the tiny screens, hard-for-me-to-use entry pad, and the cost of ownership working out much higher than a used desktop computer all turn me off). But I can see the handwriting on the wall: it won’t be much longer before you will have to have one for all kinds of things as companies stop writing code for both smartphones and desktops to concentrate exclusively on smartphones. So I have been exploring options for a low-cost smartphone for several months now.
I’ve never purchased a new smartphone. All my iPhones have been old and inexpensive, less than $100. And, buying used phones precludes me from having to go into a contract with a service provider. I’ve never had a contract with one.
I am thoroughly disappointed with 2021 monopoly rules changes that are not geared towards starting this year’s game during a pandemic without proper notification in my view. I have been doing online and delivery pick up whenever possible especially since I have had 3 family members pass away because of Covid19 these past two months. On each order online there is no side notes of monopoly exclusion on those orders but yet encourages buying monopoly participating products. When I went inside store to show my online and pick up receipts to be told that the rules recently changed and those purchases do not apply and that’s that, was very disappointing. Considering the franchise is taking precautions with mask wearing, social distancing, and encourage utilizing online grocery shopping. Yet, when you do order online you’re penalized by exclusion of participation in monopoly this year. Anyhoo, shame on me for not reading all of the fine print, will be shopping between Kroger instead of solely there since makes for better savings without coupons.
I enjoyed the previous games better. I am having trouble logging in and when I click on Safeway nothing happens. The first day that I logged in every thing went smoothly.it’s as if my phone is frozen. I don’t have the app.
This new Monopoly format really sucks!!! I don’t even want to shop at your stores now. go back to the way iy was!
An anecdote from shopping at Safeway a couple of days ago. I was checking out and the store clerk asked me if I was playing monopoly. I said yes, and the lady in the checkout line behind me asked me if I had actually every won anything. I said yes, that six of the items I was picking up this trip were monopoly prizes. She then said she was referring to “real prizes.” I replied that as a senior on a fixed income with a limited discretionary budget these were real prizes. She was unimpressed.
This illustrates something I have noticed when I talk to friends/acquaintances about the monopoly game (old and new): for people who play the game for the low-level prizes (the free products, occasional just4U cash awards, gas rewards, cents off coupons, etc.) both the old and new formats are enjoyable/profitable – with this year’s format being better than last year’s. For those who play in hope of winning one of the big prizes the new format appears to be a major turnoff – as the lack of a physical gameboard and actual pieces to affix appears to remove a major focus of enjoyment and hope (even though the odds this year of winning one of the big prizes are actually BETTER than they were last year).
The good thing for the second group, is that I would expect the format next year (assuming there is a game next year) to return to a physical game board because without COVID there shouldn’t be a need to junk the gameboard the next time.
Hi Arthur – I agree I think the small prizes add up quickly and for very little effort. The fact that the big prizes are also instant win opportunities makes it an even playing field for anyone to win as long as you purchase the participating items that generate the tickets.
My personal observation about the 2021 Monopoly Game: It has proved to be a LOT more lucrative than past years games!!
Caveat up front here: I have NEVER won anything on the game board in any of the previous 2018, 2019, or 2020 games. Everything has either been free game product, cents off coupons, or various things bought with game tokens – still, in all of those years it was a good deal overall. But this year has been a lot better by far.
In the two weeks of play so far, I have netted 274 tickets from 12 transactions (for a total cash outlay of $88). 140 of these tickets came from purchasing 140 Yoplait cups (20 each on 7 days, where I paid, after coupons, $5.80 for each batch of 20). Aside: I normally eat about 2 yogurts a day and they keep for about 2 months.
Between the instant wins on some of the tickets, free products from the match 3 game, and various items bought with token consolation prizes, this has yielded the following:
2x $25 Just4U Cash awards (one from match 3 play, one purchased with 275 tokens)
5 Gas Rewards (4 from match 3 play, one purchased with 30 tokens)
2x $2 Just4U Cash Awards (1 instant win, 1 match 3)
1x Peacock Movie/Series Channel- 3 months free access to premium version (instant win)
2x Signature Select Bread Crumbs, 8-15oz
8x Refreshe Water, 16.9oz
2x Open Nature Greek Yogurt, 5.3oz
2x Signature Care Ibuprofen, 200mg, 100ct
4x Fresh French Bread, loaf
2x Lucerne Cream Cheese, 8oz
1x Kinder Joy Candy, 0.7oz
1x Lucerne Sour Cream, 8oz
2x Signature Select BBQ Sauce, 18oz
2x Signature Select Hot Dog Buns, 8ct
2x O Organic Animal Crackers, 2.1oz
1x Signature Select Hamburger Buns, 8ct
1x Signature Select Pasta, 12-16oz
1x Signature Select Clear Flavored Sparkling Water, 1liter
1x Signature Select Flour, 5 lbs
1x Post Honey Bunches of Oats, 11-14.5oz
1x Signature Select Sponges, 3ct
1x Signature Select Facial Tissue, 60-166ct
1x Open Nature/Signature Care Lip Balm, 2pk of 0.15oz
Plus a bunch of tokens to enter the various sweepstakes ($1,000 drawing each day, $5,000 vacation drawing, $25,000/50,000 drawings; and a dozen or so coupons for Redbox/Shutterfly stuff, and a $1.00 for BoxTops4Education (already donated to a local school).
Overall, the Match 3 game has resulted in about twice as many useful things as I got in earlier years games.
So, I would strongly urge people to not give up on the game.
You DA MAN Arthur! 😉 I totally agree with you – I’ve won more in the first week of Monopoly than ever before! People need to give it a chance.
In spite of the fact that I have complaints about the game this year, I’m doing well. The first thing I did this year like I did last year was to save up points to get the $25 Safeway cash. I haven’t matched any deeds to win any cash and so far I’ve only received one cash ticket of $1.
I’m not playing this year. No fun at all and much more cumbersome.
I’m sorry to hear that. I really think it’s been fun and a lot less cumbersome than years past with all the little sticky pieces on a game board. Give it another chance!
This is the stupidest,fun sapping redesign ever.I am not versed in Quantum Physics.Really enjoyed the game the past several years but have already had problems with online site.The greed of one ticket per $25 dollars just screws senior citizens and single people.I am very disappointed.
Coupon terminology is important here as the monopoly tickets use same wording:
Purchase = Example: I am purchasing two items, each item is a purchase (almost all coupons say “one coupon per purchase”).
Transaction = sum of all purchases in a single payment (so if coupon says “one coupon per transaction” you can only use one of that coupon each time you pay.
In previous years’ monopoly games you got 1 ticket for each transaction (and transactions had to be at least 3 hours apart or the second one would yield nothing), plus 1 ticket for each monopoly bonus item you purchased, plus 1 extra ticket for every 10 bonus items you purchased in the transaction. So if Yoplait yogurt cups are monopoly bonus items (and they have been in the 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 games), and you purchased 10 Yoplait cups in one transaction in 2020 you would have netted 12 tickets (1 ticket for the transaction, 10 for the 10 bonus items, and 1 extra for purchasing 10 bonus items in the transaction).
In 2021 you get still have to keep transactions apart by at least 3 hours; but now you get 1 ticket for each $25 you spend in the transaction (up to max of 4 tickets for a $100 transaction), plus 1 ticket for each bonus item you purchased, plus 1 extra for each 10 bonus items you purchased in the transaction. So if you purchased 10 Yoplait cups in a single transaction in the first week of the 2021 game (when they were on sale for $0.39 a cup, or $0.29 a cup after use of a readily available coupon), you spent $3.90 (or $2.90 with coupon) and got 11 tickets (10 for the 10 bonus items, plus 1 extra for purchasing 10 bonus items in the transaction).
Difference: 2020 = 12 tickets, 2021 = 11 tickets.
In all years, the vast majority of tickets come from buying bonus items.
No matter what you buy, there is no ticket for purchase under $25.
Hi there – that’s actually not the case – you can spend under $25 and get a ticket. If you buy 10 participating items and spend $10, you will get 10 game tickets. You get extra bonus tickets for every $25 you spend.
Hi Gary – While Safeway did go away with a free game ticket for every purchase – they are still giving tickets for purchasing participating items, which has always been the case with Monopoly. This year they are giving an extra ticket for every $25 spent and when buying 10 participating items. So – for example – if you purchase 10 Sparkling Ice Waters ($10) – you would get 10 tickets, however, if you purchase 25 Sparkling Ice Waters ($25), then you would get 28 game tickets. 25 for the products, 1 bonus for spending $25 and 2 bonus for buying 20 participating items in one transaction. So – at the end of the day, it’s all about what you buy that gives you the tickets, not how much you spend.
Does one receive a ticket for any purchase as in the past? What does no purchase necessary to play the game. I was just in the store and spent $5+ and was told no ticket?
Yesterday I went thru the self serve and spent $33+ and got none? What the heck, it’s bad enough you now make us go on line for all tickets and now this?
Hi Ruth – This year you get tickets only for purchasing participating items and when you spend $25. Not one ticket for each purchase like in the past. For self-checkout, you need to show your receipt to the self-checkout clerk at the time of purchase and they will give you the game tickets.
Where does it tell you how to pick 3 color matching Monopoly properties and win $100.000 cash?
Hi Fred – you have to register with your Safeway Just for U account on the Shopplaywin.com website or download the shopplaywin app on a smartphone and then enter the 16 digit code on the game tickets to do the match 3 game.
There is a monopoly tie-in $100 giftcard giveaway ongoing now at:
https://www.savings.com/coupons/albertsons.com#i-11840763
Enter your email address at the link listed above and you are automatically entered into their drawing for one of 60 x $100 gift cards for the Albertsons Family of Stores (which includes Safeway). Signup runs through 31Mar21.