Sainsburys gets miserley in Scotland !

Tozer

sdooley wrote: »

If you do all your weekly shop at Sainsbury's and you have no money, you will spend £30 and get 1 point per pound. If you have more money and spend £60 you get 2 points. If you spend over £150, you get 4 points per pound. Someone who spends over £150/week on food is 'well-off'.

Or do a two-weekly shop, or monthly....

Who are you to determine how "well-off" someone is by how much they spend?

sdooley

Tozer wrote: »

Or do a two-weekly shop, or monthly....

Who are you to determine how "well-off" someone is by how much they spend?

Standard economics suggest that relative standard of living is correlated with consumption patterns? If you have no savings and £60/week job seekers allowance, you will never have £150+ (unless you save say £10/week for 15 weeks I suppose) so spending that on your shopping is an impossibility. Even full time on minimum wage, if you did all your shopping at Sainsbury's you would have to do one shop monthly to get the 4 points per pound offer - and in the meantime in the real world you'd still have to pop in occasionally for milk, bread, fresh fruit and vegetables.

Plenty of middle-class families will spend £100+ or even £150+ in the supermarket without necessarily noticing it. The offer is aimed to reward those who buy the more expensive things in store, don't be fooled by the short term bribes of bonus points, they won't last when this offer 'is shown by feedback [in rigged surveys] to have been welcolmed and will be extended nationwide'.

Are you unable to see that generally this offer will penalise Sainsbury's poorer customers (or, if you like, reward them less) in order to pay for additional bonuses which will generally benefit their richer ones? Or are you just unwilling to recognise this. Middle class guilt perhaps?

daveboy

This is a money saving site people.

Therefore shopping at Sainsbury's is going against what we're all trying to do.

Simple one this.....shop elsewhere.

Anywhere is better than what I call Scamsbury's.

sdooley

Na mate, Waitrose is even worse.

vikingaero

sdooley wrote: »

Standard economics suggest that relative standard of living is correlated with consumption patterns? If you have no savings and £60/week job seekers allowance, you will never have £150+ (unless you save say £10/week for 15 weeks I suppose) so spending that on your shopping is an impossibility. Even full time on minimum wage, if you did all your shopping at Sainsbury's you would have to do one shop monthly to get the 4 points per pound offer - and in the meantime in the real world you'd still have to pop in occasionally for milk, bread, fresh fruit and vegetables.

Plenty of middle-class families will spend £100+ or even £150+ in the supermarket without necessarily noticing it. The offer is aimed to reward those who buy the more expensive things in store, don't be fooled by the short term bribes of bonus points, they won't last when this offer 'is shown by feedback [in rigged surveys] to have been welcolmed and will be extended nationwide'.

Are you unable to see that generally this offer will penalise Sainsbury's poorer customers (or, if you like, reward them less) in order to pay for additional bonuses which will generally benefit their richer ones? Or are you just unwilling to recognise this. Middle class guilt perhaps?

True this will penalise poorer customers but also rich single customers. Plenty of people who live alone never spend more than £50 for a weeks shop regardless of their demographics.

But there are plenty of "low income families" who receive substantial amounts of benefits and with the number of offspring spend a large proportion of their household income on food.

I guess ultimately Sainsburys are trying to reduce their costs. It costs them more in staff time and banking to service 5 weekly micro shops than it does to process a single large weekly shop and one chip n pin transaction.

culpepper

It is probably scotland that have the most top up shoppers for sainsburys. They go elsewhere for their main shop. They go to sainsburys for a few small things and collect the points because going to the other shops is the same price but no points. (Its what I do and the points buy my xmas turkey)
If Sainsburys items drop in points, it will not be worth shopping there and they will lose customers.
They want to try the scheme there because if they lose the top up shoppers, it is not such a big deal and if they make the top up shoppers into regular shoppers, they have gained.
Sometimes shopping feels a bit like a battle, you have to think ahead and plan the next strategy LOL

Tozer

sdooley wrote: »

Na mate, Waitrose is even worse.

Excellent quality stuff! Sometimes you get what you pay for.

sdooley

Yeah but you can come out of there £50 lighter with less than 2 bags of shopping. However 'nice' their fresh fruit and veg is there's nicer stuff down the market or in Asian shops and at keener prices. And deli stuff is invariably better (though no cheaper) at an actual delicatessen.

Even Waitrose pies and fresh fish, which I used to swear by, are trumped by Morrisons in both quality and price.

Tozer

sdooley wrote: »

Yeah but you can come out of there £50 lighter with less than 2 bags of shopping. However 'nice' their fresh fruit and veg is there's nicer stuff down the market or in Asian shops and at keener prices. And deli stuff is invariably better (though no cheaper) at an actual delicatessen.

Even Waitrose pies and fresh fish, which I used to swear by, are trumped by Morrisons in both quality and price.

I do quite like morissons for produce - but Waitrose is consistently better in my view.

coldharbour

just to let you all know that sainsburys are doing the above dyson for 149.99 which is a bargin and i used my spend spend 60pounds and get triple points so was great.:T :money: