Clubcard

twiglet77

I’m over 20 miles away from the nearest Farmfoods but the prices in Home Bargains and Savers are much lower than the supermarkets. My DS saw Child’s Farm infant hair and body wash for a fraction of the Waitrise “offer” price! I get Simple shampoo and Arm & Hammer toothpaste (British made) in HB, though my favourite moisturiser is from Aldi. HB are much better for many food items too: milled flax/linseeds, chia seeds, crystallised ginger, chocolate chips, Graham’s (Scottish) butter, big free range eggs (from Ireland, though I do buy locally when they’re at the gate).

The Trolley app is worth having to compare prices, if you’ve time to visit different stores.

Been there today. Not as cheap as it used to be to be, but you can get some bargains.
I didn’t know Graham’s was a Scottish brand! I like their yogurt.
I could fill my trolly pre- covid. Just a bit more careful with the pennies these days.

I’m over 20 miles away from the nearest Farmfoods but the prices in Home Bargains and Savers are much lower than the supermarkets. My DS saw Child’s Farm infant hair and body wash for a fraction of the Waitrise “offer” price! I get Simple shampoo and Arm & Hammer toothpaste (British made) in HB, though my favourite moisturiser is from Aldi. HB are much better for many food items too: milled flax/linseeds, chia seeds, crystallised ginger, chocolate chips, Graham’s (Scottish) butter, big free range eggs (from Ireland, though I do buy locally when they’re at the gate).

The Trolley app is worth having to compare prices, if you’ve time to visit different stores.

They do Win. Not a lot of choice.
I like the Oral-B, Blue

I’ve loaded all my cards like Club card onto my wallet on my iPhone. Waitrose, Sparks, local garden centres, all of them. We like Tesco for the club card discounts. Seems to save a lot of money.

win

MT62

HobbyCat

The whole point of the Club Card price is to encourage people to have one. If there was no CC the items would be the original price. Homeless people probably wouldn’t be buying £6.50 butter.

I don’t believe those club card offers are genuine. Farm foods charge nothing like the full price of the supermarket.

So Farm Food sell toothpaste??

They do in our local Farmfood, along with cleaning materials etc.

If you take your receipt to the customer service desk next time you visit Tesco they will add the points to your clubcard account - additionally as I discovered only a couple of months ago if any of the items you purchased on that receipt were on a clubcard price offer they will refund you what you missed out on - I was instantly refunded £4.27 - it will state on the receipt Join clubcard today - this visit you missed out on XXXX clubcard points & if there were clubcard prices the total you could have saved - I say thanks Tesco

labazs

if you go into shops it is a pain
luckily if you do online shopping stores like Co-op Tesco Asda etc store the card and apply the discounts automatically

Why is it a pain in the shop? I truly don't understand that

MT62

HobbyCat

The whole point of the Club Card price is to encourage people to have one. If there was no CC the items would be the original price. Homeless people probably wouldn’t be buying £6.50 butter.

I don’t believe those club card offers are genuine. Farm foods charge nothing like the full price of the supermarket.

So Farm Food sell toothpaste??

I mean hobby cat who is going to pay £9 for a tube of sensodyne toothpaste 😩

HobbyCat

The whole point of the Club Card price is to encourage people to have one. If there was no CC the items would be the original price. Homeless people probably wouldn’t be buying £6.50 butter.

I don’t believe those club card offers are genuine. Farm foods charge nothing like the full price of the supermarket.

MT62

I nipped into Tesco’s to buy a few bits, it was bits as well as I couldn’t load up my clubcard.
Service desk was useless as they couldn’t get it up either.
I ended up buying four tins of beans & a loaf that was on offer with club card, was reduced anyway.
Got to the tills & had a little rant, that I couldn’t do a biggish shop as I had no CC.
Why do we have to have these blinking cards anyway. How do the homeless go on if they have no address, or email to get one of these cards.
All the lady could say was ‘well all stores have them’ I said farm foods don’t & they do money off vouchers.
Why don’t these supermarkets just cut the costs so everyone can benefit?
I don’t think I am being unreasonable to think that.
I know I can trapes back to the supermarket with my receipt, but that’s costing me fuel & wear & tear on my car.

You could always have a all in one Tesco credit card and club card like I have, makes it much easier and you get points on everything by using it as a credit card outside Tesco too.

MT62

I nipped into Tesco’s to buy a few bits, it was bits as well as I couldn’t load up my clubcard.
Service desk was useless as they couldn’t get it up either.
I ended up buying four tins of beans & a loaf that was on offer with club card, was reduced anyway.
Got to the tills & had a little rant, that I couldn’t do a biggish shop as I had no CC.
Why do we have to have these blinking cards anyway. How do the homeless go on if they have no address, or email to get one of these cards.
All the lady could say was ‘well all stores have them’ I said farm foods don’t & they do money off vouchers.
Why don’t these supermarkets just cut the costs so everyone can benefit?
I don’t think I am being unreasonable to think that.
I know I can trapes back to the supermarket with my receipt, but that’s costing me fuel & wear & tear on my car.

Do you mean the loaf was reduced without using your club card so a general discount rather than due to being a member.? once you have registered your club card you just scan it as a credit card before you pay, so not quite sure what you mean. However the club card discount is only applied once you scan your club card at checkout, so it is essential to have that on you or on your app. to get the discounts. The points are brilliant too and you can double up and buy loads of different things with them from the partners. I always save mine for online flowers which I have delivered to friends for their birthdays. Big saving.

MT62

The couple I offered my card to, saved £8.00 as she said oh thanks you have saved me £8.
They also got a five pound off voucher, the person serving told them to hand it to me 😳 but I told them to take it as I was going away & didn’t need it.

Sorry that was an answer to outcast52.

The couple I offered my card to, saved £8.00 as she said oh thanks you have saved me £8.
They also got a five pound off voucher, the person serving told them to hand it to me 😳 but I told them to take it as I was going away & didn’t need it.

leeds22

I sometimes have problems loading up my Tesco CC but you can always get your missed savings reimbursed later by taking the receipt to customer services when your card is working.

I know but it’s at the other end of town which I like to avoid.
So that’s petrol & wear & tear on my car as the roads are terrible.

Dickens

Sago

Cards are not about the customer they are all about data.

The companies use the data to profile their customers and use the information to attract more business.

Customer's data is very important to supermarkets (and other businesses), your information is financially beneficial to them.

When they - and others like Amazon - ask for reviews and details of your shopping 'experience', we are giving it freely (that's if we bother at all of course).

How many times have you been asked to write a 'review'. told it will only take a few minutes?

I once told Tesco that if they wanted me to 'take a few minutes' to let them know "how did we do today", they would have to reward me financially (maybe via a discount) because Information is money. They purchase it from other sources, so we should also be paid for it.

I sometimes get phone calls asking me to answer some 'houshold questions' - ie a survey! I say "I don't answer surveys over the phone!" Why would I? If I answer surveys online I get extra points on my account or maybe entered in a draw. Over the phone they are just harvesting data for free!

Outcast52
That’s exactly how it works. They are not going to give you a discount on dogs biscuits if you’ve never bought them.
The really spooky one is the tech that tracks how long you look at a product 🫨

Cossy

Most shops have a “loyalty” scheme and most supermarkets now do “price matching” to each other.

I get your “gripe” but it’s just another little “reward” for shopping with certain retailers.

We shop with Tesco, one year our vouchers paid for our entire family’s entry fee to Longleat, 9 of us.

Last year I paid towards an easyJet trip to Spain.

That is good 👍🏻
I tend to shop at different places. Not really loyal to any supermarket, especially not since Covid. I think Tesco’s became greedy.

The reason supermarkets want us to have loyalty cards is so they track our spending and target their advertising to what they know are our interests. The nectar card (Sainsbury's) gives customers personalised offers as well as general nectar offers. These save me loads of money especially if I can combine the 'My nectar' price offer with an extra points offer.

I usually pay at self service tills in Tesco but one day I'd bought alcohol so went to a manned checkout so it was quicker to verify my age. The 2 customers before me didn't have club cards and the assistant asked if I wanted to scan mine. I ended up with over £2 worth of points - one customer had a huge trolley full - and the customers would have saved some money too. I wonder if Tesco employees are supposed to do that? It is obviously costing them money without them benefitting from the data they collect. However I was very happy to receive the bonus! As they say 'Every little helps'!

I sometimes have problems loading up my Tesco CC but you can always get your missed savings reimbursed later by taking the receipt to customer services when your card is working.

What is Jaxjacky? I've never heard of it

I agree about the Sparks, I never seem to get anything back at all. And I often find that I need to insert rather than tap my credit card or it won't work.

The Tesco offers don't seem much use to me, the prices without the Clubcard seem artificially high so you don't save that much. I very rarely bother to shop in Tesco now.
Same goes for Morrisons, I have very rarely had the "Fiver" back and the price reductions are small.

I used to shop more in Waitrose, but don't find that their on-line service has the same variety of products as Ocado. Their "Little Treats" are just useless for me and the offers, when they appear on my account, are often not in stock instore or online.

I like the convenience of shopping online with Ocado, no lugging bags about and I can edit the list all week until it is delivered. I don't care that I don't get the very small number of points back or so-called special offers that the other supermarkets offer.

I wish Marks would do a Clubcard! That silly Sparks depends on the customer doing all the work to find ‘offers’, many of which I don’t want.

The whole point of the Club Card price is to encourage people to have one. If there was no CC the items would be the original price. Homeless people probably wouldn’t be buying £6.50 butter.

MT62

twiglet77

I think Aldi is the only supermarket that doesn’t have a loyalty scheme.

OP asks why we have to have them. The simple answer is that we don’t “have to”, no customer is obliged to join any loyalty scheme, for groceries, fuel or anything else.

Yes I appreciate we don’t have to have one, but I don’t want to be paying top wack for my groceries.
More & more products are being added to ‘save with club card’.
I just feel sorry for the homeless who don’t have emails, or addresses to have one of these loyalty cards.
When I shop at Sainsburys I pass on my card so that the person in front can save a few quid, if they don’t have a card.

I think these offers are personalised to one's individual club card account, so offering your card for someone else to use may not benefit them at all?