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”
My first set of tickets said employee codes. I didn’t know what it meant and kept entering them. Now the codes that I enter say customer codes and will not accept them. I don’t know what to do.
There are two DIFFERENT monopoly games: one for customers (blue tickets) and one for employees (green tickets). If the store gives you green tickets you should hand them back and ask for the blue ones.
I think that once you set up your account at shopplaywin.com and entered codes from green tickets into the system, it now thinks you are playing the employee game. You will probably need to contact https://www.shopplaywin.com/contact in order to get this fixed.
Hi Karen – Please call Safeway to request that they change your account from an employee account to a customer account. Retail Store/Corporate – 877-723-3929
How do you know if you’ve won a prize?
Every blue monopoly ticket when opened falls into one of three categories:
A – Instant Win – where you win something immediately (usually a free product)
B – Cents off Coupon – either for products (vast majority) or for freebies/discounts at Peacock, Redbox, or Shutterfly
C – Shop, Play, Win! code
To use anything from A or B, or to play your C tickets you have to go to shopplaywin.com and sign in with your Safeway Just4U account (just follow the prompts once you get to shopplaywin.com). You then enter the code on each ticket and instant wins and cents off coupons for products will be added to your Safeway Just4U account. Each entry for a shop,play, win ticket will bring up a 9-box game board, you pick 3 boxes and submit your choice – if they match you win the item shown and it will then be added to your Safeway Just4U account. Once prizes/coupons are in your Safeway Just4U you can redeem them at checkout just like any other digital coupon.
The Peacock, RedBox, Shutterfly stuff requires another step after code entry at shopplaywin.com. Once you enter the code there it shows up in your “code history” on the shopplaywin.com site with a “redeem” link next to it. That link takes you to where you can redeem each of those prizes.
Major prizes ($50 or more) cannot be redeemed directly at the store. Instead monopoly will send you an email with instructions about how you can claim (you have to fill out a prize claims form).
I have scanned numerous tickets and have found that they do not award duplicate prizes. By this, I mean that if you have more than one “Instant Winner” coupon for, let’s say, a 16.9 oz Refresh Water, they will only put one in your Just4You acct. In your “history” on the app it will list the correct number, but only one will be on the Just4You Safeway app. The only time you can get a duplicate product is if you get it in a different manner. For example, if you are an Instant Winner and a Match 3 winner of the same product, you will get them both.
But if you play the Match 3 game and happen to get the same product after fortunately matching the three tiles, it will list the fact that you’ve won, but multiple quantities will NOT appear on the Just4You app at the store.
Last year, when they still had “Instant Winner” tickets, duplicate coupons were honored. Not so now, and this is frustrating, because it’s not that easy to pick all three and then when you do and it’s the same thing you’ve already won it seems like a scam, because you won’t get it. I’ve “won” almost ten bottles of the same water, but only received two (because one was an Instant Winner and the other Match 3). Same goes for the 50 cents off coupons. Only one of the same product will appear on the Just4You app. Plus, they appear to have the same products (water, $1 coupon and the like) all the time, which appears to limit what they will actually give out — even to the actual winner.
Also, the “Contact” link you provided only gives out information on a number of subjects. There is no way to submit a personal question via email, nor is there a phone number for customer service. Very upsetting.
Hi Michael,
Not sure what “contact” link you are referring to. The one immediately below allows you to submit your email if the FAQs don’t answer your question. Is this the one you are referring to:
https://www.shopplaywin.com/contact
Regarding your problem with prizes not being added to your Just4U: This is not a problem I’ve ever heard of or personally experienced. I asked 3 of my friends who are also playing the monopoly game and it hasn’t happened to any of them either. I’ve had numerous duplicate prizes awarded and they ALL have shown up in the code history at shopplaywin.com and ALL of them have then shown up in my Just4U. At one point I had 6 Refreshe water bottle prizes (2 instant wins, 3 match 3 wins, and 1 token purchase) they showed up at 3 entries on my Just4U (Instant Win – 2 uses, Match 3 Win – 3 uses, and Token – 1 use). I pulled all six bottles during shopping this week and all 6 came off as freebies at the same time.
I HAVE noticed some minor glitches with how prizes are handled: For me (but not for any of my 3 friends also playing monopoly), items purchased with tokens show up immediately in my code history and my Just4U account, but they will not come off as free prizes at checkout until at least 24 hours have passed. This is NOT the case with instant wins or match 3 wins, both of which come off as freebies immediately.
It just occurred to me that maybe what you’ve not noticed some of the fine print on your Just4U. On my Just4U the second column for every monopoly entry says
U INSTANT COUPON (or U MATCH 3 WINNER) (or TOKEN REWARD)
Monopoly Prize
“X number of” (1, 2,3, etc) use(s) available
Expires “x/xx/xx”
Check this column closely and hopefully you’ll find that the multiple prizes you won ARE listed there.
Just to be clear: Multiple prizes awarded through the same process — with each of instant coupon, match 3 winner, or Token Reward being a different process — are listed as multiple “uses available”. For example, if you win 4 Refreshe Water Battles through Match 3 play, they will show up in your Just4U like this:
first one – Match 3 Winner, Refreshe Water, 16.9oz, 1 use available
added a second win, without redeeming first one – will now show 2 uses available.
added a third win, without redeeming either of first two – will now show 3 uses available.
redeemed 2 bottles – will now show 1 use available
etc.
Hi Michael – I apologize, I had not gone all the way through the contact us function as I assumed it would actually allow you to contact the game administrators directly. Here is the Safeway customer service number: Retail Store/Corporate – 877-723-3929
This is great for the kids and technology savvy people. For us older people, who are not tech savvy, this new format is CRAP!!! I won’t be playing it and neither will a lot of older people. Thanks for sticking it to your older shoppers!
Hi Charlie,
All of us here on this Blog, including the nice lady who runs it, have NOTHING to do officially with Safeway. We are merely fellow customers who shop at Safeway and use this forum to point out deals that might benefit others. The Safeway monopoly game (both the present and past versions) can be quite advantageous to customers if you play it right. Safeway stated up front when the current game started that the all-digital format was because of COVID – there was a choice of a digital format or no game at all. I, for one, am glad that they found a way for the game to continue this year.
I am 63 and only somewhat tech savvy. I do not have a smart phone (and have never had one), but I do have access to a desktop computer. For part of one year’s game I had neither and still played by using the public access computer at my local library.
In 5 years of playing this game I have NEVER won a prize on the main board (not even a $5 one). But I have won tons of free products, and have used the second chance tokens to buy various other free products, gas rewards, and for 3 years in a row a $25 giftcard/Just4U cash award.
Yes, the all-digital format is harder to use in some ways. But, so long as you have a smart phone or a desktop computer (or access to one or the other), you can play. The bulk of this blog post (above the comments) lays out how you can play. And, if I might suggest, if you’re finding it hard to play, ask one of your tech-savvy friends or relatives (kids) to help you. Most people I have found are glad to help if asked. I’ve helped two locals get started in the game this year.
Change can be hard. But digital appears to be the wave of the future for almost everything. I enjoy and benefit from the monopoly game too much to allow technology change from preventing me from playing.
Thank you, Arthur! Appreciate your support and help as always! Eva
We know how to do it – so WHERE do we enter!?
Hi Barbara, you have to enter the codes on shopplaywin.com. First you need to login with your Just for U account info to get to the code entry screen.
I was reading some of the comments. What I’m finding with my situation is the card number on file doesn’t match the card I have. But all other info is correct, so who’s number is it? This might explain, when I’m getting gas it doesn’t give me the discount. Yet my receipt says I have one. My husband says he puts in his cell number, so it can’t be his. But I’m hoping to fix this problem soon.
My problem isn’t the prizes failing to show, they make it to the app, it’s the prizes are never awarded(discounted for free) on my sales receipt or worse it’s something my store never carries, this includes both food and monetary prizes I have looked for way to bring this issue to attention of whoever is running this game, and the support pages takes me in circles with useless topics and no email address to contact them. You would think that it would be mandatory by law if you are awarding physical prizes, that they must be stocked in sufficient quantity at all stores.
The shopplaywin.com FAQ page requests you consult the FAQs before contacting them, but then the page lists NO contact info. The only contact info I could find ANYWHERE on the shopplaywin.com site was buried at the bottom of the “terms and conditions” page. From there:
If you have any questions about these Terms or requests for additional information, please call our Customer Support Center line toll-free at (877) 276-9637, or send us an email at [email protected] or a letter at the following mailing address:
Customer Support Center
Albertsons Companies, Inc.
M/S 10501 P.O. Box 29093
Phoenix, AZ 85038-9093
There is a contact form under the faq’s. here is the direct link: https://www.shopplaywin.com/contact
Interesting. Just checked again on the shopplaywin.com site under the FAQs like you suggest. Nothing there. No link to any contact. Maybe this is something that only shows up with the mobile app because it definitely does NOT show up on my desktop computer. Or I suppose it could be something tied to the browser/browser version you are using,
hmm – I’m not sure – I use google chrome – and the link I provided goes to a page where you can provide your email and then send your question.
RE prizes showing up in J4U, but then not being redeemed for free: This has happened to me twice, the common factor was that both free products were token purchases, both showed up in my J4U immediately but they would not come off as free products until 24 hours later. This problem has only occurred for me with token purchases of products, (not with instant wins or match 3 things) and after 24 hours they HAVE come off as free. Two friends of mine who are playing monopoly definitely have NOT had this problem, so I can’t say what is going on here. I just know if I wait 24 hours it works fine.
RE all stores not stocking all the free items: This has been the case every year. And the fine print of the monopoly terms addresses this with verbiage that not all stores carry all products. If your store does stock it and you want the freebie you’ll probably have to go to another store.
When going to shopplaywin.com, I am getting the “403 Forbidden” error.
The only text on the page is ngix. The site worked for me on 3/25 and just stopped working yesterday. Is this a problem on the server side?
Hi there – It’s possible that the site was down for maintenance. That has happened several times already this year. Try again at another time and I’m sure it will be working.
How do I play on my desktop computer?
I have been trying for 20 minutes to find anything to click on to enter the codes.
If this game can only be played on cell phones and pads why don’t you say so.
Very frustrating.
Hi Chris – Please visit shopplaywin.com Sign in with your Just for U account and enter the codes. I included the screenshots for playing on the computer in the post above and also made a video about how to play on the computer that you can watch on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4Gzpvp_P2s&t=106s
Mt Monopoly App Code History shows that some free stuff has been transferred to my Just4U, but it never showed up in my Just4U. What do I do?
Hi Tracy – It will show up under Just for U in the ‘My List’ section.
I had the same problem. I entered my codes last week and it said the prizes were added to my J4U account. They never arrived. I looked on “my list”, but there are no coupons or “Special offers”. How do I get my free products and coupons? I went shopping today and they didn’t come off when the checker rang me up. He kindly removed the charges for them, but I want this fixed for next time. What do I need to do so my future and past winnings actually show up on my J4U account?
Hi Alexa – I’m not sure what to say because it shows up for me and for everyone I’ve helped under My List. I would contact the Monopoly Game Administrators through their contact page and see if they can help troubleshoot the issue. https://www.shopplaywin.com/contact
I cannot find my awards either. Ever since they made the new app, no awards show up. I won a lot of free items. It’s annoying not to be able to get any of them.
Hi Nancy – have you looked under My List for your rewards? They should all be under My List in the app and under your account settings in Just for U.