Instead, not only is the game not back “just like before,” but it’s not back at all.
“We would like to look forward to the following year to have the game back just like before.”
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“The management team has decided to cancel the Monopoly game this year due to complications playing it on full digital,” the representative explained to Coupons in the News last year.
And many players complained that the digital-only game took all the fun out of collecting game pieces, figuring out which were the “rare” ones needed to make a match and win a prize, and trading with others in the hopes of becoming a big winner.Īn Albertsons customer service representative acknowledged last year that many shoppers were unhappy with the new game, and seemed to suggest that the time-out was aimed at retooling the game to bring back the version that shoppers knew and loved.
Instead of purchasing qualifying products to earn game pieces to place on a simulated Monopoly board in the hopes of winning a million-dollar top prize, the new version of the game allowed shoppers to earn codes to enter online or via the Albertsons Monopoly app, to find out if you were an instant winner.Īside from the Monopoly-themed branding, the new game had little to do with Monopoly at all. After the 2020 edition of the game was interrupted by the Covid pandemic, and the prospect of gathering paper game tokens in stores became less palatable and less possible for many shoppers, the 2021 edition went all-digital. That said, the game “as we know it” had already changed before it was sidelined last year. At that time, the “Shop Play Win” website was still operational, though frozen in time on the previous year’s contest, whereas today, the website is completely down.Īnd with Albertsons currently focused on its proposed merger with Kroger, which may or may not want to inherit the game and assume the responsibility of expanding it to its own nearly two dozen chains, it’s not out of the question to presume that the Monopoly game as we know it may be gone for good. “Unfortunately, we will not be offering the Monopoly game this year in our stores,” Albertsons spokesperson Jessica Keener told Coupons in the News – the very same quote she offered last year, when the game was paused for the first time in 13 years. The smartphone setup on the app with the nine title deeds that never pay off anything more than a stinking bottle of water (and are obviously rigged to do that once in a while no matter which squares you pick) is a weak, feeble, and pitiful manifestation of a game that nobody but a person with too much time on their hands would even care about.These days, as regulators scrutinize Albertsons’ plan to merge with its larger rival Kroger to become a coast-to-coast grocery powerhouse, you can’t necessarily blame the retailer for not wanting to be associated with the word “monopoly.”įor the second year in a row – and perhaps permanently – the long-running Monopoly Shop, Play, Win game typically played this time each year at Albertsons, and nearly two dozen Albertsons-owned chains like Safeway, Randall’s, Jewel-Osco and Shaw’s, has been shelved. Someone needs to figure out a way to make it more exciting. The game is just pretty bogus at this point–even compared to the aforementioned previous version. There are no groups of game pieces to acquire (which at least gave players a goal to shoot for, and provided a measure of anticipation that prizes might be won-albeit totally far fetched), but NOW all the air seems to have been completely sucked out of the new “digital” version, where filling in “groups” isn’t even a pipe dream anymore. So, I never even won 5 bucks before-never mind anything larger than that-and now it seems like ALL of the already unattainable prizes have COMPLETELY vanished in this new version, where there doesn’t even seem to be ANY illusion of winning them. So, in other words…….the game totally sucks now compared to how it used to be, which was never all that good to begin with, and was mostly just a waste of time–even BEFORE 2021.Īnd no, before this new 2021 version of it, I never liked the fact that I would fill up the game board every year with every single one of the common game pieces, and on the last day of the game would always end up with ONLY the common pieces on my board, and NEVER got even one single semi-rare piece (let alone a super rare one).
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