WARNING: Coupon Police Alert

jeferey

mackay wrote: »

I am amazed at these coupon stories , they sound great. At the risk of sounding completely thick!!!!where do the coupons come from? I have seen the odd coupon , but nothing on the scale of some of these coupon champions....

Look here and enjoy!

Tibbs,The_Freebie_Hunter

mackay wrote: »

I am amazed at these coupon stories , they sound great. At the risk of sounding completely thick!!!!where do the coupons come from? I have seen the odd coupon , but nothing on the scale of some of these coupon champions....

Also look in the papers and magazines for MOCs.

But remember to check your individual store policy first.

upsy-daisy_3

I was at my local tesco last week, i had a few vouchers healthy start, clubcard extra points and my clubcard double up vouchers. I had bought the correct stuff i was using vouchers for but after i scanned each one on the SS tills, i was told to wait for assistance and had to wait for the sa to come and verify the voucher. People queuing were getting so annoyed with me, you could here all the tuts and moans. Very unpleasant experiance. And abit embarassing being made to feel i was using them against something i shouldnt

Tibbs,The_Freebie_Hunter

upsy-daisy wrote: »

I was at my local tesco last week, i had a few vouchers healthy start, clubcard extra points and my clubcard double up vouchers. I had bought the correct stuff i was using vouchers for but after i scanned each one on the SS tills, i was told to wait for assistance and had to wait for the sa to come and verify the voucher. People queuing were getting so annoyed with me, you could here all the tuts and moans. Very unpleasant experiance. And abit embarassing being made to feel i was using them against something i shouldnt

This is just the normal acceptance procedure for coupons on self-scan checkouts for Tesco.

Better the self-scan alerting an SA rather than Security, as in Asda.

johncas1

YES because if you read the small print on the cupon is says fo not try to redeme this voucher against any other product as refusal may cause embarrasment SOME even say this is fraud so basicly if you use the cupon to buy another product the supermarket cant redeme the cupon the issuer won't accept it and they are loosing money and with customers coming ig with a whole pile or 20 cupons and trying to use them all and especiallt cupons for large ammounts they don't want you foinf that so basicly if you buy the product it's ok I work in Tescos and can take 1 cupon if you have not brought the product and it is not for use in a sperciffic store some cupons say only for use in morrisons etc and that we stock the product we can't take a cupon unless we stock the product

johncas1

upsy-daisy wrote: »

I was at my local tesco last week, i had a few vouchers healthy start, clubcard extra points and my clubcard double up vouchers. I had bought the correct stuff i was using vouchers for but after i scanned each one on the SS tills, i was told to wait for assistance and had to wait for the sa to come and verify the voucher. People queuing were getting so annoyed with me, you could here all the tuts and moans. Very unpleasant experiance. And abit embarassing being made to feel i was using them against something i shouldnt

This is to stop people using Healthy Living cupons formally Milk tokens to buy anything other than Milk fruit and veg which is illegial you get prosocuted so yue a healthey start cupons to buy a DVD and then you brake the law a fine and off to court you get prosocuted even if you brought £2.80 worth of gruit and veg for a £3.10 cupon and the rest is food or say a DVD then you brake the law also any cupons what ever they are even clubcard ones that are over £3.00 or more than 1 cupons and they all come to over £3
then you need approval and thats every customer not just you.

And as for security and tesm leaders / till runners coming without you knowing
At all the tills in asda and tesco they have a set of buttons press one and it sends a signal to the tram leader who has headphones on or security thats how they get security without you knowing

sher60

hairy_g wrote: »

The Supermarkets and shops over here really need to adopt the American way of accepting coupons, especially asda, where the coupon i handed in ( cut from their own magazine ) was scrutinized closley, held up to the light and then endorsed grumpily.
In Orlando I handed in coupons at Reebok outlet picked up from a jeans shop,(15% discount).. The response?..." you have a coupon sir?...Thank you sir " and she didn't stop smiling!! they are just part of everyday life over there, what a pity that shops over here think that when we have a coupon we must be fiddling them.

I miss the coupon books that you get in the Sunday papers in the States (I'm an American)! The only thing is you have to buy the product to use the coupon. It used to take me at least an hour to do the grocery shopping over there, I had 2 little file boxes full of coupons that I used to take shopping with me and what ever ended up the cheapest of the choice on the shelf for what I wanted to buy was the coupon I'd use. Example: I need cereal so I look to see what cereal coupons I have and which ever cereal ended up the cheapest was the coupon I used. I saved a lot with coupons in the States but compared to being able to use them at Tesco like cash is even better!:D Mind you, when I used coupons in the States it was before bar codes so it was easy to sneak in a few coupons for a few things I didn't buy!:cool: They had double and triple off coupon days too so a 25 cent coupon was worth 50/75 cents!

Tibbs,The_Freebie_Hunter

johncas1 wrote: »

YES because if you read the small print on the cupon is says fo not try to redeme this voucher against any other product as refusal may cause embarrasment SOME even say this is fraud so basicly if you use the cupon to buy another product the supermarket cant redeme the cupon the issuer won't accept it and they are loosing money and with customers coming ig with a whole pile or 20 cupons and trying to use them all and especiallt cupons for large ammounts they don't want you foinf that so basicly if you buy the product it's ok I work in Tescos and can take 1 cupon if you have not brought the product and it is not for use in a sperciffic store some cupons say only for use in morrisons etc and that we stock the product we can't take a cupon unless we stock the product

This is not the thread for me to go into the minutiae about supermarkets (started with Asda) and their acceptance of any coupon against any product (honestly, that's just how it used to be when they introduced the policy pre-MSE years when only a few were couponers). In Asda, this is just starting to filter out now (as in my store), but was not only allowed in (what now feels like days of yore) but actively encouraged because Asda were making money out of it (2p handling fee, per coupon).

Your specific Tesco store takes one coupon. Other Tesco stores take either a specific amount or a percentage. Also depends on SA. Not so cut and dry as you might think. Not all supermarkets and even SA's within them sing from the same hymn sheets.

Tibbs,The_Freebie_Hunter

johncas1 wrote: »

This is to stop people using Healthy Living cupons formally Milk tokens to buy anything other than Milk fruit and veg which is illegial you get prosocuted so yue a healthey start cupons to buy a DVD and then you brake the law a fine and off to court you get prosocuted even if you brought £2.80 worth of gruit and veg for a £3.10 cupon and the rest is food or say a DVD then you brake the law also any cupons what ever they are even clubcard ones that are over £3.00 or more than 1 cupons and they all come to over £3
then you need approval and thats every customer not just you.

And as for security and tesm leaders / till runners coming without you knowing
At all the tills in asda and tesco they have a set of buttons press one and it sends a signal to the tram leader who has headphones on or security thats how they get security without you knowing

Oops - thanked you by mistake. Was just going to quote you.

Think you're mistaking Healthy Living vouchers (which are issued by Tesco) and Healthy Start vouchers (issued by NHS). I would believe that the latter would have to be used specifically against the product - probably wouldn't have a barcode (but I might be wrong - I've never seen them).

I think we all know about the alert button to security. Again, this is not what is being discussed. I think your hearts in the right place, but you don't know the ins and outs of what individual stores have been allowing - when really they shouldn't have (due to making profit out of it - this is discussed on many separate threads). This was going direct to Security instead of the SA hub (due to a mistake in set up, presumably). Asda have never done this before. It certainly wasn't the SA alerting security, in this instance.

Tibbs,The_Freebie_Hunter

sher60 wrote: »

I miss the coupon books that you get in the Sunday papers in the States (I'm an American)! The only thing is you have to buy the product to use the coupon. It used to take me at least an hour to do the grocery shopping over there, I had 2 little file boxes full of coupons that I used to take shopping with me and what ever ended up the cheapest of the choice on the shelf for what I wanted to buy was the coupon I'd use. Example: I need cereal so I look to see what cereal coupons I have and which ever cereal ended up the cheapest was the coupon I used. I saved a lot with coupons in the States but compared to being able to use them at Tesco like cash is even better!:D Mind you, when I used coupons in the States it was before bar codes so it was easy to sneak in a few coupons for a few things I didn't buy!:cool: They had double and triple off coupon days too so a 25 cent coupon was worth 50/75 cents!

I agree with the OP that the American system of coupon acceptance is far superior to ours.

Can I ask if your coupon use examples above included Walmart? Or was it some other supermarket.

Since Walmart has taken over Asda, coupon acceptance has been declining. I would have thought that coupon culture would be embraced by Walmart over here - but no - it's being phased out instead.