Loyalty Cards

Aside from Tesco Club Card I think the only loyalty card I ever get benefit from is Holland & Barrett. I buy chia seeds and milled flax as well as MrA's vitamins and it soon mounts up. Frequently get several pounds off a purchase.

I have a myWaitrose card. I get their food magazine free each month and money off some items at the till.

Apart from that I cannot be bothered.

I used to get good value from my Advantage card, as I would often grab a meal deal on my way to work, and the points mounted up. These days, I don't shop in Boots so often and their website is so frustrating to use that I rarely bother with that either.

I have a Nectar card, but it takes ages for the points to amount to a noticeable saving. I sometimes use it to buy Homeware in the Sainsbury's sale, but more often a just get a few pounds off my Christmas order. It's worth keeping it for the discounted day to day prices though.

The main thing I've noticed with M&S is that they give us discounts on things we've just bought and probably won't buy again for some time 😄 I can't say I've ever considered M&S to have inflated prices to be honest - their quality and fit isn't as good as it used to be but still better than most high street stores so I don't mind paying a bit more.

We don't spend enough at Sainsbury to get masses of Nectar points but the Nectar card discounts are sometimes good.

Sainburys is my store of choice for the big shop, I use the Nectar card, you get special prices, also I only ever use the points at Christmas. We are home Christmas day and out boxing day. All my shopping is covered for that period and it saves me money.
I have all store and coffee shops apps on my phone and I do save alot. I also have Marks gift cards for Christmas and I got money of the underwear I bought.

I hardly ever go to M&S now. We don't have one in my town and the town centre one in our neighbouring town has closed so it is just the out of town one and parking can be a nightmare.

I have a soft spot for M&S as it was my first job as a 15 year old and they were such good employers, don't know if it is the same now but not many employers have a dentist come in to look after you (that would be great now wouldn't it) then there was the chiropodist although I didn't bother with that, getting your hair done cheap while at work was great though. The six weeks wages for working Christmas week was also very welcome. Why did I leave?

I do remember the supervisor coming round with her booking forms for appointments, if you got a lunchtime hair appointment they brought your lunch into you to eat while you were under the dryer.

Our manager said it was worth it for the company, who wants a scruffy assistant who needs a hair do, who wants an assistant with bad teeth and bad breath and how can an assistant be pleasant with customers if they have sore feet. Makes sense when you think about it.

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The main thing I've noticed with M&S is that they give us discounts on things we've just bought and probably won't buy again for some time 😄 I can't say I've ever considered M&S to have inflated prices to be honest - their quality and fit isn't as good as it used to be but still better than most high street stores so I don't mind paying a bit more.

We don't spend enough at Sainsbury to get masses of Nectar points but the Nectar card discounts are sometimes good.

As the mother of 3 sons (all grown up) I can vouch for their school trousers. Might have cost a bit more but they out lasted any other brand I ever tried.

I have friends who take delight in these things.

I cannot be bothered unless I use a stoer a lot.
I once announced I had £49 amassed in one. [It happened to be 2 years' worth].
They were astounded.

I thought if they were all astounded by £49, I really wasnt missing out on whatever they had.

My main one is the Tesco club card as , in my last two houses, they were the nearest supermarket and I found useful and could get points on fuel too, but now they are getting quite stingy in the reductions etc, but we always kept all the vouchers to buy our christmas food , which worked well for us and there wasnt that awful scraping together of every penny to afford stuff. I do also have a cafe Nero because, if I am out I usually look for them, I find their seating reasonably comfortable, and get I think it is still 1 free coffee for every 10 i buy . I also am fussy about my coffee and want to drink from a china mug , not a thick earthern ware or a horrible paper cup. So i take my own (bought in a sale of course ) white china mug, which I also get a reduction for bringing my own cup in which suits me very well I support the local market and would rather have cheaper goods than cards and in fact I really wish that supermarkets would just pack in bogoff and x percent off and x cheaper than another store and just put the blasted prices down and so we would not have to stand there trying to decide what is the best value!!

I live semi rurally, near an out of town M&S and Sainsburys ( my nearest shops) so use both. I agree that the M&S card rarely gives useful rewards- occasionally 10-20% off a particular type of clothing such as ladies tights or men’s sweaters. Mostly it’s food offers are for larger quantities than I would buy- for instance 50p off sausages if spending over £8 on sausages. The voucher offers in the past (before the sparks card) were much better. I tend to use my Sainsburys points to help out for Christmas or when I have family come to stay.

Just been to Sainsbury's for a top up shop and I've got nearly £10 in nectar points which isn't bad as I spent all mine at Christmas. Bit shocked at the state of the shop. Lots of empty shelves, wanted a Warburtons toastie loaf and they were all best before 26th. It is the 26! Hope they pick up as it is the only big supermarket in my town.

Just to add the bread wasn't even reduced.

I use my Boots advantage card quite a lot.
Re Sparks card: it doesn't seem to have as useful offers or free items as it used to buy it has added a huge amount to the charity I chose for it to support. So please, even if you don't want or need the offers, use the card so money can be given to your chosen charity.

£6,181,604 raised from Sparks card for Macmillan charity. That seems pretty good to me.

Agree I shop in M&S few times a month and agree discount always appear after I shop , also feel it’s no ‘reward’ I only go as it easy to park out of town .

My Tesco club card is good
The M&S one is a waste of time really,I just use it when I buy a coffee then every so often I get a free coffee 🤷‍♀️

I don’t understand why these super markets don’t just sell their food for a normal price, feel sorry when a customer in front doesn’t have the nectar card & has to pay the extortionate prices.
I think Tesco’s was the first SM to introduce this way of shopping, now they all seem to do it.. WHY? Who see what we buy supermarkets, government?

I use the coffee ones. ASDA Rewards is very frustrating, a right faff. Boots, Superdrug, Holland & Barrett are fine. I only use the M&S Sparks so Macmillan can benefit from it. Sainsbury's Nectar card is ok.

My local farm shop has a loyalty card which gives you money off. You get points in the cafe and the shops - mind with their prices you need money off!

I agree Tesco Club card good. Sainsbury’s nectar similar on their offers.

Sainsburys Nectar points and Boots Advantage Card are the only ones I use now.I got too frustrated with the M&S Sparks card.Just give me some money back to spend after a while rather than the faff of always having to see what you different things are on offer.And when they've asked if I have Sparks I sometimes say politely no and why.

Husband like the Lidl card.
Apparently he gets a free bakery item every so often
I only see the bag and crumbs in the car.

Sainsbury's Nectar who have recently taken to opdating on theur app how much has been saved through Nectar, Waitrose, I used to get free newspaper with thst one, they withdrew it recently unsurprisingly too good to last, Sparks, I get 15 to 20% off merchandise fairly regularly and the occasional freebie, Boots, Advantage

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I don’t understand why these super markets don’t just sell their food for a normal price, feel sorry when a customer in front doesn’t have the nectar card & has to pay the extortionate prices.
I think Tesco’s was the first SM to introduce this way of shopping, now they all seem to do it.. WHY? Who see what we buy supermarkets, government?

It’s because loyalty card members spend more than non members.