£5 money off voucher - Use in Asda, Tesco etc

stebiz

Annie021063 wrote:

I presume the PEOPLE you are referring to include me!! I have been using coupons for a long time and not just for a "short term gain" as you put it. I am certain that large companies such as Waitrose, Asda and Tesco wouldn't accept them if they couldn't redeem them back to the issuing company. The supervisor I spoke to was more than happy for me to use them and if I can get a huge chunk off my shopping bill every once in a while then I don't see why it's such an issue. I'm sure this won't affect anyone using the odd 20p coupon off a product that they have in their trolley. Do you honestly think that a few people using coupons to reduce their shopping bill will affect the stores policy on their use??? I do not. My £140 last night is a drop in the ocean for store like Waitrose who make billions of profit from us every year.

I'm sorry Annie but this was not aimed directly at you. However if you feel the hat fits then that is upto you.

Let us look at this logically. Superdrug issue a coupon which they have agreed with Olay to give £5 off and will claim the money back. Foolishly the type is so small that Asda/Wairose think this is a numeric coupon that they can claim back on and accept them. Now Asda and Waitrose have 1000's of these coupons flooding the tills which they will lose out on. A drop in the ocean. However certain stores are being hit more than others. The store you went to last night and used £140 worth of coupons will find out this morning when adding these coupons up that the small print says they can't redeem them. You may as well go and buy 100 Somerfield Mags and use their coupons too. They have loads and they scan as well. I just hope I'm not the poor guy standing behind you when the store realise they have lost out - and then suddenly stop me using my redeamable coupons.

I'm not sure you understand what I'm trying to get across. I'm not here to argue with you. In fact you are the same as all of us trying to save a few pounds and good luck. All I'm saying is that if you want these big stores to carry on taking coupons - then don't carry on what you are doing!!!

Regards
Stebiz

Oh and if you want to prove me wrong. Phone up waitrose and tell head office what you are doing. They are very open and accept loads of redeamable coupons - now tell them that you have sainsburys ones. I'd love to hear their reply.

Annie021063

stebiz wrote:

I'm sorry Annie but this was not aimed directly at you I know I did say "include me" I. However if you feel the hat fits "it does" then that is upto you.

Let us look at this logically. Superdrug issue a coupon which they have agreed with Olay to give £5 off and will claim the money back. Foolishly the type is so small that Asda/Wairose think this is a numeric coupon that they can claim back on and accept them. Now Asda and Waitrose have 1000's of these coupons flooding the tills which they will lose out on. A drop in the ocean. However certain stores are being hit more than others. The store you went to last night and used £140 worth of coupons will find out this morning when adding these coupons up that the small print says they can't redeem them. You may as well go and buy 100 Somerfield Mags and use their coupons too Never tried that - thanks for the tip!!! (only joking). They have loads and they scan as well. I just hope I'm not the poor guy standing behind you when the store realise they have lost out - and then suddenly stop me using my redeamable coupons.

I'm not sure you understand what I'm trying to get across. I do understand I'm not here to argue with you I know your not In fact you are the same as all of us trying to save a few pounds exactly and good luck. All I'm saying is that if you want these big stores to carry on taking coupons - then don't carry on what you are doing!!! Point taken

Regards
Stebiz

Oh and if you want to prove me wrong.No one is out to prove you wrong Phone up waitrose and tell head office what you are doing. (not sure that is a good idea as it would only bring it their attention and spoil it for those who haven't yet used them at Waitrose - they only have 5 days left to run and then it will all fizzle out) They are very open and accept loads of redeamable coupons - now tell them that you have sainsburys ones. I'd love to hear their reply.

I appreciate where you are coming from and this board is here to vent feelings and opinions.
Annie

hilary1

Well said stebiz.

Not aiming at anyone in particular but if you overwhelm a shop they will notice and then we all lose out. The word greed comes to mind , which seems to be happening more and more on this site. When Waitrose or anyone else finds out about all the Superdrug coupons they will adopt a no coupon policy.

Annie021063

hilary1 wrote:

Well said stebiz.

Not aiming at anyone in particular but if you overwhelm a shop they will notice and then we all lose out. The word greed In my opinion it's called money saving which is what this site is all about comes to mind , which seems to be happening more and more on this site. When Waitrose or anyone else finds out about all the Superdrug coupons they will adopt a no coupon policy.I'm not really sure this will happen because if only one or two do it then it will create a coupon war between supermarkets - it's bad enough with all the bickering between them about pricing - they will probably just stop their tills from accepting them and that will be the end of it

Supermarkets are making huge profits out of all of us every day 365 days of the year, every year!! I can't see the harm in getting some of it back.
Annie

hilary1

Annie021063 wrote:

Supermarkets are making huge profits out of all of us every day 365 days of the year, every year!! I can't see the harm in getting some of it back.
Annie

No none of us can but there are reasonable limits at any one time surely.

And as for money saving - that is a joke. We all want to save money but GREEDY people ruin for everyone. Supermarkets might make millions but thats what they are in business for and taking the pxxx and them finding out will ensure that coupons are not accepted anywhere.. Read the Tesco posts about it. Do you think that no-one from Waitrose and the other shops read these forums. Only takes one - remember the person who rang Littlewoods? what happened then - no more codes that work!

If you are going to do it ( and I would be temted myself) perhaps you shouldnt tell everyone on here. Least said least can be done about it.

goodscams

I have about 60 left, so it wouldn't be advised that I go spend £300!

Though my nearest is 58 miles so I'd have to use at least 10 to make it worth while.

mm66

I know a bit about the coupon redemption practices. I can confirm for certain that large companies like waitrose will get paid by Olay. Even if the vouchers says "super drug" only the clearing house processing the voucher has instructions to process them from any of the large chains. This is standard practice as companies cannot afford to annoy large customers. Additioanlly, they already have budgeted these marketing costs and they dont like budgets under utilised. It looks bad for the brand manager that spent all the money on a particular promotion. so the advice is to use them if the shop accepts but use them sensibly and not more than 20% of the shop to avoid it becoming an issue

Dormouse

mm66 wrote:

I know a bit about the coupon redemption practices. I can confirm for certain that large companies like waitrose will get paid by Olay. Even if the vouchers says "super drug" only the clearing house processing the voucher has instructions to process them from any of the large chains. This is standard practice as companies cannot afford to annoy large customers. Additioanlly, they already have budgeted these marketing costs and they dont like budgets under utilised. It looks bad for the brand manager that spent all the money on a particular promotion. so the advice is to use them if the shop accepts but use them sensibly and not more than 20% of the shop to avoid it becoming an issue

Thanks for the explanation. Does that mean that Tesco would get their money back on a Somerfield/Sainsbury's branded voucher as well (as long as they sell the product, obviously)?

Annie021063

mm66 wrote:

I know a bit about the coupon redemption practices. I can confirm for certain that large companies like waitrose will get paid by Olay. Even if the vouchers says "super drug" only the clearing house processing the voucher has instructions to process them from any of the large chains. This is standard practice as companies cannot afford to annoy large customers. Additioanlly, they already have budgeted these marketing costs and they dont like budgets under utilised. It looks bad for the brand manager that spent all the money on a particular promotion. so the advice is to use them if the shop accepts but use them sensibly and not more than 20% of the shop to avoid it becoming an issue

Thanks for that MM66 just as I thought really - my neightbour works in Waitrose and it wasn't until today that I found out she actually worked in the cash offices - she also confirmed pretty much what you just said except that the policy with Waitrose is that as long as they sell the product you can use as many coupons as the individual stores allow - the store I visited didn't mind me using 28 in one shop but another might say only up to 10/20%. I guess I have been lucky in both waitrose and asda and have been able to use many vouchers in each shop to reduce my bills dramatically.

mm66

Dormouse wrote:

Thanks for the explanation. Does that mean that Tesco would get their money back on a Somerfield/Sainsbury's branded voucher as well (as long as they sell the product, obviously)?

they would get their money if the promotions are being paid by the manufacturer. If the store is paying for it then no. for example the tesco is happy to accept money off total vouchers of sainsburys for which they dont get reimbursed but they take it as a matter of competitive policy. In my opinion it should be other way round; they should accept unlimited manufacturer vouchers they get reimbursed for plus a handling fee and not accept money off total vouchers....