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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If you have any clout with the powers that be at Safeway, please tell them that the Monopoly Game was a HUGE disappointment this year – so much so that it’s turned me off from shopping at Safeway. First, it was MUCH more difficult to get game pieces this year than in past years. Second, it appears that they awarded far fewer prizes this year than in the past. Too many coupons and not enough instant winners. Third, most of the items they DID award were of little value to most families. Fourth, the prizes that were of value (gift cards and gas rewards, specifically) sold out far too quickly. Fifth, the fact that customers can redeem tokens for only one of each free item is a joke. Clearly, a number of people won little more than a pile of tokens, the vast majority of which can only be used for the sweepstakes – thereby decreasing their chances of winning any of THOSE prizes since the number of people entering the sweepstakes has now increased substantially. Safeway went too far in restricting game pieces and prizes this year. In my opinion, they really ruined the game.
Thank you Joseph – Safeway is aware of this page and this post, and I’ll be sure to send the link again so the powers that be can read through the comments before creating next year’s game. Thanks for your comment.
When did the game officially end because I stopped getting monopoly tickets last week from Albertson and have went several times since feel like I git jumped out here in Surprise Az.
Hi Mia – The last day to get Monopoly tickets was May 4th. You have until May 18th to scan the tickets for the instant win prizes and coupons and the match 3 game. You have until May 27th to redeem your coupons and free items in the stores. The game ends on May 27th officially.
How long do I have to collect my free items? The stores don’t have them in stock at this time, hand soap, 5 count pkg of razor blades, clippers, vinegar.
Hi Connie – You have until May 27th to redeem the free items.
On the free food items we won, I have many multiples on these. Are there any restrictions such as one free item per visit or can I go in there on one trip and load my cart with the 30 or see free items and checkout?
you can get them all in one trip. Congrats!
I’m curious as to the best Monopoly coupons that anyone got this time around. The vast majority appear to have been for $0.50 off; with a sprinkling of $1.00 off for various Safeway house brands. The only ones I’ve seen for better than that were both singletons for:
$3.00 off One AmeriGas Propane Gas Tank Exchange
$2.00 off One Whole Roasted Signature Cafe or Open Nature Chicken Available in Deli Department
Also, what was the LEAST useful thing you won during the round of Monopoly? My nominee is the Signature Care Nail Clipper Deluxe. The first one was OK. But then I got 7 more of them through match-3 play, with no less than SIX of them coming in a row — the only things I won one night after playing about 15 tickets.
For me – I got $1.00 off Open Nature Parmesan Cheese Crisps and I really liked the $1.00 off Soleil and $.50 off AHA sparkling water. The rest were all $.50 coupons and lots of free products, which I still have to claim! I ended up with a lot of bottled water and a few loaves of French bread.
The least useful thing is every free product that was never stocked or never has enough to match the amount of free items promised. To me that is fraud. If you win a prize, the store must deliver. I got 3 of the clippers all in same day. Naturally they have none in stock at my store so again what is the point if you can’t redeem them?
You have until 27May to redeem the free prizes. Check every time you go into your Safeway (or any Safeway). Most things get restocked every week or so. For example, I personally won 3 boxes of Open Nature/O Organic Water Crackers – none in stock for two weeks – today big stack on the shelf and I redeemed all 3 prizes. The only item I have not seen restocked in a timely manner is the Signature Care Nail Clippers Deluxe – I redeemed one very early in the game and then have seen none in stock for almost 2.5 months — but I don’t really care about these either as one is all I can really use.
Last year on the last day to redeem prizes I still had three items that I had not been able to find stocked anywhere. I hit six different Safeways on last day and found 2 of the 3 items. But no luck anywhere for the last one – a box of Animal Crackers. I asked manager in last store if they had any anywhere and told him this was the sixth Safeway I had hit. He said, unfortunately they had none either – and then he gave me a big, multipack box instead.
How long does it usually take to confirm a prize after the ticket and form are received in Georgia?
I need to know who to redeem my tokens if all my cash for groceries are suddenly not available. I only received a $25.00 one for the qualified amount of tokens and I have over 200 tokens to use and the $5.00 and $10.00 cash for groceries are no longer available. They were all available until I used the one for $25.00. Why can’t I use my tokens for more cash for groceries.
I need to know what gas pump service stations are taking my Gas reward Prize. How to I find the participating Gas Stations in my location. I don’t want to purchase before I find out they are not honoring my discount.
How do I redeem the free items that show up after I enter my monopoly ticket code in. How do I know I can get them for free? Do I have to find them in the store and take them to the cashier and the register will know if it is free?
Hi Gloria – The Just for U cash offers are all gone. Safeway had allocated $4.5M to this category and all the offers were claimed.
As for the gas reward prize – you can login to your Just for U account to see under REWARDS to see the list of participating gas stations in your area. Be sure to scan or enter the coupon code into shopplaywin app or site before you go to load the rewards, then make sure to use your club card/phone number at the gas station.
Regarding the free items, those should show up under MY LIST in your Just for U account. They should come off automatically at checkout when you purchase the items.
I have a few instant winner items, can I redeem them at the store all at once?
Thank you,
Hi Aireen, absolutely – just be sure to scan the coupons or enter the codes using the shopplaywin app/site. The instant win coupons get loaded to your Just for U account and are deducted automatically at checkout.
Hello 👋
I think I have too many tokens so my app froze.
I can’t use it anymore to scan more tickets.
What will I do or how can you help me.
Thanks.
Hi Julie – I would close the app all the way and try again in a few minutes.
I have won more than 500 tokens. However, Grocery Cash prizes were not available to redeem as of today, May 5, 2021. Yesterday I saw Grocery Cash prizes such as 275 tokens for $25 Grocery Cash and 150 tokens to redeem $10 Grocery Cash, etc. These Grocery Cash prizes are now all gone. These should be available until May 18.
Hi Liz – I believe the prizes are out once they reach the maximum redemption threshold as stated in the rules. You can keep checking to see if they get reloaded, but in the past, they did not.
Hello:
I had the same experience as Liz and after I entered all of my codes on May 4th and 5th, to my dismay, I discovered that without warning that all of the Grocery Cash prizes that were available on May 4th were gone by May 5th. What does someone do with over 800 tokens since the other product awards are limited to one item each? Do you have any influence on the management team of the Monopoly game? Thank you for your assistance.
Hi Steve – I do not. I’m a blogger in partnership with the Safeway Denver division, but I have zero influence on the Monopoly game. Once the prize thresholds are met, the prizes are no longer available as the budget has been spent. You can still use the tokens for the free products and for entry into the sweepstakes. Every token scanned automatically gets entered into the $1M last chance sweepstakes as well. Sorry, I can’t be of more assistance.
When I go to play the Shop Play Win website there isn’t EVEN A SPACE to enter the codes! You can click anywhere on the picture and nothing happens. I HAVE AT LEAST 50 CODES TO ENTER AND I’M UNABLE TO DO SO! I have had NOTHING but trouble with this year’s game. Needless to say, it has soured me on Safeway. Luckily they are not the ONLY store in town!
Hi Mark – you have to log in using your Just for U information then you will see the box to enter the codes.