Waitrose voucher acceptance

maz168_2

Hi,

Just wondering, are you able to use coupons in Asda and Morrisons?

Anybody with ideas? I'm abit scared about handing over coupons when I've not bought the product. No waitrose near me.

Thanks,

whistler-alison

Coupon-mad wrote:

Try a young male cashier if there is one, or a young girl if not. Avoid the jobsworth middle-aged women who act as if the money is coming out of their pocket!!

Pedant's corner here but in a roundabout way it is coming out of her pocket! The John Lewis Partnership (which waitrose is part of) is essentially a workers cooperative. The shareholders in the company are the staff and profit dividends are paid out to the employees and not to shareholders and investers.

Coupon-mad

whistler-alison wrote:

Pedantic's corner here but in a roundabout way it is coming out of her pocket! The John Lewis Partnership (which waitrose is part of) is essentially a workers cooperative. The shareholders in the company are the staff and profit dividends are paid out to the employees and not to shareholders and investers.

But it isn't coming out of the store's pocket, if you are using manufacturers' coupons.

The store makes a profit from taking these, which is partly why they do it (also to try to sell more stuff and to encourage more shoppers in the door). There is only a small handling fee paid to the store but it is PER COUPON so if Waitrose HO redeems thousands of coupons per month they make the handling fee on each one on top of getting their coupon money back.

BTW, to the earlier poster who asked, you can use coupons at Asda (but they currently have a problem with coupons in their magazines scanning high, see Magazine vouchers thread for details). So Asda's response has been to lock their tills if you use vouchers over £3 (even if you've bought the product) so that you can't complete the transaction without a Supervisor.

I use most of my coupons at good old Tesco. Just now I spent over £15 and went to a cashier who I know scans all and every coupon. For my shopping I got a couple of hundred Tesco points for buying the right products as on my points coupons, and I paid just 15 pence........:o

UltraCheap_2

halojones wrote:

I tried my local Waitrose yesterday, and a manager came over and virtually refused all of my coupons saying that I had to buy the product.

He did accept the printed £1 Cleanex, Huggies, Andrex one, which was great as I had a load of those, and they dont scan in Tescos, but at Waitrose they manually enter the £1 off. It was great and I still have all my other scanning coupons for Tesco's.

It was a bit stressed, though, I'm not sure if they arent starting to crack down at Waitrose as well. You have to pick your till assistant well, and this was the only one under 40 in my local.

Same thing happened to me last week as well! I sent an email to Waitrose CS and they confirmed that my local branch SHOULD be accepting coupons! So I will print it out and try again one of these days soon.

Jakejakejake

I saved about £25 in waitrose yesterday, they were a bit more fussy than usual and they decided not to take any printed ones but oh well!

BargainMad_3

The "waitrose take everything" rule is just not true - my Waitrose hardly take ANYTHING - inevitably the cashier young or old refuses vouchers which are MINIMAL in value - they then ring for a superviser who invariably comes out with "you can only use......" if any at all.

V_Chic_Chick

If you go in about 15 - 30 minutes before, the cakes are majorly reduced Well worth going in the day before your child's birthday party

Disillusioned-

Coupon-mad wrote:

Avoid the jobsworth middle-aged women who act as if the money is coming out of their pocket!!

Er, actually it is. Waitrose is part of the John Lewis Partnership and the entire company; Waitrose and John Lewis is owned by the staff who are all partners in the business.

I work at Waitrose and can confirm that there is a general policy on coupons but individual policy is at the discretion of individual branches.

BargainMad_3

I still love Waitrose even though my branch don't accept even small coupons - I get so many bargains there I'm certainly not complaining. They are my fave supermarket - yes I prefer them to Tesco - EEK ! Cue sky falling in.

lynzpower

has anyone had any joy with giving in vouchers from the sainsburys magazine at waitrose?