Boosting your Tesco Clubcard Points Discussion Area

bylromarha

sweetilemon wrote: »

I use my clubcard whenever i shop in tesco and save my vouchers to use at christmas. it pains me to watch people in front of the queue spend hundreds of pounds then to say they dont have a clubcard!i feel like handing them mine (i dont). Bit weird i know just cant understand its like throwing away money.

Just ask!

Big smile, cheeky comment like "ooooh, do you mind if my clubcard gets swiped then if you aren't using the points?" and wave your clubcard in your hand.

I've done it several times, only one person has said no. Most people don't care.

Go on, give it a go. The worse they can do is say no.

geordie_joe

sweetilemon wrote: »

I use my clubcard whenever i shop in tesco and save my vouchers to use at christmas. it pains me to watch people in front of the queue spend hundreds of pounds then to say they dont have a clubcard!i feel like handing them mine (i dont). Bit weird i know just cant understand its like throwing away money.

It could be they have enough money and don't need to collect points.

barmonkey

did any one get the bonus 650 points for swapping from visa to mastercard, it said they would be paid in may but they werent on my statement.


ignor that i should have posted it on the other thread, sorry

Enterprise_1701C

geordie_joe wrote: »

It could be they have enough money and don't need to collect points.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Never have enough money to avoid something for "free""

JC9297

Using your vouchers to get money off your shopping is not making the most of them, much better to use them for clubcard rewards.

jackieblack

barmonkey wrote: »

did any one get the bonus 650 points for swapping from visa to mastercard, it said they would be paid in may but they werent on my statement.

It's only April

Lizling

jaibaby wrote: »

Well, Tesco would have a rough idea (at least) of what their customers were buying by stock levels. What difference does it make for them to know what an individual is buying?

Absolutely loads. It lets them sell a lot more stuff because they can tell what you’re likely to want and market it to you.

I used to be an analyst working on a supermarket loyalty scheme (not in the UK). Knowing what individuals were buying let us divide customers into groups based on their shopping habits. From that, we could fairly accurately find out all the demographic information on you we could possibly want – it’s not as precise as a census, but one way or another we’d get the same information from your shopping basket records. Socio-economic group, age, family and their ages, religion, where you’re from...

Then we’d use that info to send you special offers appropriate to the box you’d been put into.

We could adjust the products on offer to make sure that target groups were being catered for.

It would also be used to work out which products would be likely to do well as different stores, based on the groups of people who shopped at each one.

We’d know who was most likely to defect to rival supermarkets, and how much effort it was worth putting into keeping them.

In fact, almost every piece of analysis I ever ran there would have been done for each customer segment to compare how they were each affected.

It’s hugely valuable information.

no1catman

JC9297 wrote: »

Using your vouchers to get money off your shopping is not making the most of them, much better to use them for clubcard rewards.

That assumes there is a reward 'deal' that you are interested in, and you can forward plan. Depending to on how much your vouchers are worth each period.
Previously, I suspect many people have lost vouchers (gone out of date etc) - while trying to save them. Or maybe the deal vouchers have gone out of date - oops.
The majority, of CC vouchers are used in store - it doesn't mean one set of users is right and the other wrong, only that they make different choices.

jaibaby

Lizling wrote: »

It’s hugely valuable information.

But surely that would only be true for people who actually go out of their way to buy those items they have been tempted with. When I receive coupons, I don't use them unless I want that product. And even then, I only go to Tesco when I know something I want is cheaper / on offer. Normally, I only go when the huggies are cheap. I did go a few weeks back when the easter eggs were BOGTF, but I didn't buy anything else just because I had coupons for them.

Venusflytrap

Have used a clubcard for over 5 years but now shop more in the open market and waitrose, where a lot of the essential range of products come out same price or cheaper than in Tesco.

Used to spend on average £100 per month in Tesco, now just about £20, so clubcard not really worth it for anymore.