Alert! tesco have stopped taking internet printed coupons

onemumtwokidssaver

Does anyone have or can you tell me ~ about the codes inside kellogs cereal boxes (coco pops frosties etc) ~ they let you download "a free box of cereal " coupon ~ has anyone done this yet?

ThinkingOfLinking

tbw wrote: »

It certainly is true - I stated in my post that they OFFICIALLY stopped taking them last year ! I didn't say that they were not being accepted in any Asda ever. There is plenty of comment on here and PTS to confirm this is true. If your Asda is still taking them then you are very lucky - but you should not count on it going on as its probably just a case of some CAs have either not been trained properly or have got the hump with Asda and decidied to do as they please.

I forgot to say many if not most Asda stores have taped up all the slots at the self scan tills !

This new policy is also on the Policies thread at the beginning of updated coupons etc.

Yes, the local one has taped up its coupon slots, that's true.

tbw

So I guess (if what I have said about Asda and its policy of NOT accepting coupons for non-purchased goods is deemed to be untrue) that I must be imagining that many Asda staff have informed me of the new policy , imaging that there is a lot of info about this policy on the coupon policy thread, and imagining the comments on various threads from other people - who all say the same thing.

If I AM imagining all this, then a lot of other people are living in the same imaginery world .

Seriously though, make the most of your happy store cos they will probably catch up with the rest of the stores soon.

ThinkingOfLinking

There's no need for the sarcasm; I'm just telling you my local Asda accepted coupons for items I hadn't bought when I went in there earlier this week. If they stop doing that soon, then fair enough.

tbw

Flickering_Ember wrote: »

There's no need for the sarcasm; I'm just telling you my local Asda accepted coupons for items I hadn't bought when I went in there earlier this week. If they stop doing that soon, then fair enough.

I wasn't being sarcastic ! My end comment about making the most of it was simply to suggest that you did exactly that - make the most of it while you can cos you are lucky to be able to do so. No sarcasm, no sour grapes, just hoping it lasts for you . Also, if you read my earlier post you will see that at no point did I say that I did not believe that your store did not accept them. It was you that said 'NOT TRUE' when I mentioned Asda policy and all I did was give you some evidence to back it up.

I stick by my comment that Asda do not take coupons unless you buy the product (or strike VERY lucky with a CA who hasn't been trained properly) - and hope that this will be taken on board by any newish couponers who might otherwise be embarrassed at Asda tills.

chipbeck

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

I'm not a bloke, I am a really nice lady lol !

Read the comment again love and picture a bloke with his tongue in his cheek!

Fire_Fox

bulgariafairy wrote: »

one thing that a lot of people who criticise tescos policy to accept a coupon without the product being purchased is the following....tesco get a handling fee, per coupon used, between 2p and 5p for processing the coupon.

profit much, considering how many people use coupons these days! if you think about it, you can see the brains behind this part of their policy, from a management point of view. thats a lot to give up. plus, if they change it too much, people will go elsewhere. eg asda has a bigger range and is cheaper. i'll be off to asda if they change it for sure!

How is that pure profit? The extra time needed for each coupon to be date checked and scanned, the time to call over the supervisor when they don't know if a particular coupon can be accepted, the time of the person in the cash office who has to again check each coupon, add it up and separate them into manufacturers to be sent off for payment ... A handling fee is exactly that.

Fire_Fox

tbw wrote: »

Agreed - but its down to what is classed as 'abuse'. I don't think my 4/5 at a time was abuse and the people who regularly use 20/30 clearly don't think their useage is either. The staff and Managers may well have different opinions. I know the staff do talk about customers using a lot of coupons - they've even moaned to me on frequent occasions about this or that person who 'comes in with great wads of coupons and gets all their shopping for next to nothing!'(their words, not mine) so, if they moan to other customers I'm sure they also moan to each other.

See my earlier post below - IMHO it's abuse once the shop is no longer making a profit from you. If Tesco are going as far as to ban certain customers that's a clear sign that those people are not profitable. Being able to use a lot of coupons was a loophole not a constitutional right.

My Clubcard statement clearly shows Tesco that I haven't shopped with them since the new year when I got pig sick of their hefty price hikes. They send through my Clubcard vouchers and allow me to double them to buy wine, and accept my £5 Morrison vouchers and suddenly I spend £150 in the space of a couple of weeks, with several more of each voucher still outstanding.

Fire_Fox wrote: »

From the point of view of the business there is a big difference between using 90% cash and 10% coupons and using 90% coupons and 10% cash. It is an abuse of the system and, like many other MSE loopholes, it will eventually be closed up.

tbw

Fire_Fox wrote: »

See my earlier post below - IMHO it's abuse once the shop is no longer making a profit from you. If Tesco are going as far as to ban certain customers that's a clear sign that those people are not profitable. Being able to use a lot of coupons was a loophole not a constitutional right.

My Clubcard statement clearly shows Tesco that I haven't shopped with them since the new year when I got pig sick of their hefty price hikes. They send through my Clubcard vouchers and allow me to double them to buy wine, and accept my £5 Morrison vouchers and suddenly I spend £150 in the space of a couple of weeks, with several more of each voucher still outstanding.

Firefox - we might be at cross purposes here ! I posted originally cos I actually agree with your comments about coupon overuse - I wasn't trying to pick holes in your argument. I totally accept its a perk that Tesco allow us and that its never been our 'right' to use them. All I was trying to say was that using loads of them DOES get you noticed and, eventually, some Managers will stop the perk and/or ban people they reckon are taking too much advantage. And I do accept that individual Managers can, and apparently often do, ban customers for whatever reason and that customers apparently have no comeback. HQ will back the Managers (management must be allowed to 'manage') even if the ban seems unfair. Tesco aren't going to worry about the odd few customers who take their business elsewhere, its a drop in the ocean.

bulgariafairy

Fire_Fox wrote: »

How is that pure profit? The extra time needed for each coupon to be date checked and scanned, the time to call over the supervisor when they don't know if a particular coupon can be accepted, the time of the person in the cash office who has to again check each coupon, add it up and separate them into manufacturers to be sent off for payment ... A handling fee is exactly that.

tesco don't pay their cash office staff any more money for processing the coupons though do they.....they have to work harder but they get paid the same, no loss for mr T, only a gain.....