NEWSPAPER SUMMARY - Saturday 23rd January 2010

Sunny_Saver

Received an email saying there were two free DVDs: Place in the sun and The odd couple.

jeferey

frugal_rock wrote: »

Any more info on this offer? Looks a good deal for a fiver.

THE TIMES

OFFER - BUY the DVD of "THE HANGOVER" plus POPCORN plus ICE CREAM - For Just £5
THE HANGOVER (2009) >>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119646/
Starring > Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Heather Graham, Mike Tyson

It's a coupon for Blockbuster. Present the coupon for one bag of Blockbuster popcorn or snacks, one 1-litre tub of Blockbuster ice-cream and one DVD or Blu-ray rental for the price of £5. Valid until midnight Februry 3rd 2010.
Offer availalble to new and existing members. You need 1 form of ID to join which is free.

stormbreaker

frugal_rock wrote: »

Free Winter Walks Book in The Scotsman

Inside The Scotsman

Saturday 23 January

frugal_rock wrote: »

Does anyone know when part one was out?, Its the 2nd one this week. I usually always get this paper but can't remember seeing it!

BLUEWKD

Nudge wrote: »

Daily Express

Page 37 Coupon for Free Haliborange Kids Multivitamins worth
£4 at Tesco, valid to 24/1

Is this a 99 barcode? Thanks

cestlavie

just a note re waitrose £10 off offer :

my large tesco - refused this "£10 off a £50 spend at waitrose" coupon last week . i had spent over £150 with them at the time. today i rang customer services and was told that they don't accept these conditional coupons as a policy any more, but some stores may at their discretion ... when i asked how i would know which store would accept them or not, i was told i'd have to ask the manager of each store, she couldn't tell me, and besides then the manager might change his mind the next day. how helpful.
i have already bought today's telegraph and spent it at waitrose. i shall get tomorrow's as well and spend that at waitrose mid-week.

** thanks to all of you who post here, i always check in before i go out! **

ethen1

Response to cestlavie - I had the same issue with Tesco not accepting the Waitrose voucher. I e-mailed the CEO and this week he sent me a personal letter confirming they do accept all conditional spend coupons if the minimum spend has been met. I suggest ringing back Dundee and asking to speak to Paul (Customer Service Executive to the CEO). Complain about Dundee and explain the situation. Tesco do not want to lose custom over this but they are useless at telling their stores. My store is now accepting the coupons and I got assurances from the manager.

hnscott

cestlavie wrote: »

just a note re waitrose £10 off offer :

my large tesco - refused this "£10 off a £50 spend at waitrose" coupon last week . i had spent over £150 with them at the time. today i rang customer services and was told that they don't accept these conditional coupons as a policy any more, but some stores may at their discretion ... when i asked how i would know which store would accept them or not, i was told i'd have to ask the manager of each store, she couldn't tell me, and besides then the manager might change his mind the next day. how helpful.
i have already bought today's telegraph and spent it at waitrose. i shall get tomorrow's as well and spend that at waitrose mid-week.

** thanks to all of you who post here, i always check in before i go out! **

You might also consider ringing Customer Services back because the person you got obvioulsy doesn't know their A"SS from their elbow. And certainly doesn't know what they are talking about. Did you call Dundee (ie Clubcard) or Customer Services?

There was a HOST message sent to all Tesco Stores on 5 January informing them that Tesco as a company take competitor spend coupons from:

Sainsburys
Morrisons
Asda
Coop
M&S
Waitrose
Boots
Coop

Store Managers DO NOT have the right to refuse them and it certainly isn't up to their descretion. :mad::mad: It makes me FURIOUS when idiot managers decide they know best and try and implement their own policies. They have no right to do so. The company policy is to accept them. The more people who fight the stores that think they know better will result if their being more transparency. Personally, I have been avoiding T for some time just because of their inability to be consistent.

There - Rant Over.

sellingmysoul666

they accepted the waitrose coupon at leyland tescos last week
one of the people on customer services asked the other one who said yes
the sa didnt know either

jamespir

tescos got funny when i tried to use the voucher from the star for the free skinny water it says in the paper you cna use it against pomegranete ,original and cola flavour but it wouldnt go through on the cola or pomegrante flavours

so if they question it just point out its on the coupon and they should do manual overide

despite it saying on the coupon it does

FiFi_Mad_Mum

stormbreaker wrote: »

frugal_rock wrote: »

Free Winter Walks Book in The Scotsman


Inside The Scotsman

Saturday 23 January

frugal_rock wrote: »

Does anyone know when part one was out?, Its the 2nd one this week. I usually always get this paper but can't remember seeing it!

The first part of this was yesterday:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/custompages/CustomPage.aspx?pageID=81441

HTH FiFi