Boosting your Tesco Clubcard Points Discussion Area

NEH

no1catman wrote: »

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Previously, I suspect many people have lost vouchers (gone out of date etc) - while trying to save them. Or maybe the deal vouchers have gone out of date - oops.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.

Now your vouchers are also stored online and many of us before Christmas thanks to a lovely person on this site who pointed this out claimed back lots of "lost" vouchers...

Personally Tesco is cheaper for us normally as we use mysupermarket.com to compare and we get clubcard points on shopping we would have to get anyway.....So technically it's a bonus on something we can't do without...

Lizling

jaibaby wrote: »

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.

Not at all. Vouchers are only a small part of their marketing. The information they get back from your Clubcard will be used way beyond just deciding what vouchers to send. It's about building up a picture of your behaviour and then working out how to use that to persuade to to spend money there. In your case, you're clearly a bargain hunter who shops around. You sound like you'd be in the target group for the price matching with Asda idea and also those adverts where they list the costs of a basket of goods at Tesco and compare it to somewhere else.

Edit bit: If you only ever use the voucher on something you're going to buy anyway, and never, ever buy anything else just while you're in there, you're an incredibly unusual shopper.

zenseeker

*Kat* wrote: »

Yeah, I think customers just don't like that Tesco know what they're buying

They'd better be paying by cash then, because it's easy to link customer and their purchases by pairing up card and sale.

Plus, of course Tesco know what we are buying, they have till records and stock taking...they NEED to know what customers are buying so they can improve stock levels and range.

no1catman

To get back to the original post:

I think the decision on whether or not to have a 'loyalty card' depends on if 'you' believe it is going to be worth it.

Worth it: can depend on the frequency of visiting that retailer, how complicated/simple - you think - the registration process may be, and the 'rewards that may follow.

But I agree with the OP - it can be surprising being in a queue, and someones paying for a very full trolley but no card!
It only takes two to three minutes to register over the phone, free call by land-line.

LittleMissGiggles123

I have a clubcard & wouldnt be without it. We saved up hundreds of pounds in vouchers & then converted it to the deals tokens worth £800 towards our family holiday to florida. Then saved again, used them last christmas when they did the clubcard voucher exchange. We had £150 of vouchers converted to £300 which bought our daughters a lot of lovely things.

We dont bother using them as the normal clubcard vouchers to do grocery shopping because we benefit more from the clubcard deals.

I also collect the Boots points throughout the year & then use the points to buy stocking fillers at christmas. I always put hampers together for my sisters, so its nice to put lots of little things in it.

I think some people benefit from these schemes but others wouldnt so just dont bother. I know some people who are effectivelu losing money because they buy things they dont need just to get the points. My friend once bought 3 Clinique products in boots (about £50 in total) just to get 500 points, which is only worth £5. She doesnt even use clinique & ended up giving the items away!

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geordie_joe

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

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

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

But they are not avoiding something for free. Avoiding something means you take active steps to ensure you don't get something. These people are not doing that, they are just not taking active steps to ensure they DO get something. It's the exact opposite.

To get that something for free they would have to register, carry the card, hand it over every time they shop, open an envelope, tear out the voucher, stick it in their purse/wallet and remember to hand it over when they want to use it.

To some people, doing all that just isn't worth the effort for what they get.

It's like dropping money, or seeing it on the street. Some people wouldn't bother to pick up a 1p if they dropped it in the street, but would pick up a 10p if they dropped it, or came across one in the street.

Everyone has their limit, some won't bend down to pick up anything less than 5p, other 10p, others 20p and other 50p etc.

It's not a question of never having enough money to avoid something for free, it's about setting standards for yourself. The more money you have, the less things you will do to get free money.

geordie_joe

no1catman wrote: »

To get back to the original post:

I think the decision on whether or not to have a 'loyalty card' depends on if 'you' believe it is going to be worth it.

Worth it: can depend on the frequency of visiting that retailer, how complicated/simple - you think - the registration process may be, and the 'rewards that may follow.

But I agree with the OP - it can be surprising being in a queue, and someones paying for a very full trolley but no card!
It only takes two to three minutes to register over the phone, free call by land-line.

I once got 97 points from a couple in front of me. The checkout assistant tried to get them to take a club card leaflet and sign up for one, but the man said "There's no point, we're on holiday, we don't have a Tesco where we live, and if this lot lasts a fortnight we will never shop in a Tesco's again"

Kildare

We have a clubcard but as we rarely shop in tesco all we get is £1.00 voucher once in a blue moon. We do have a lot more with nectar, but I've noticed that most of those points used to come from the EDF loyalty scheme which has now ended. When your only two people shopping I think the schemes take so long to add up that its not really worth you being loyal to one store.

That being said I do have points cards for just about everywhere, the only worthwhile ones being Boots and Debenhams Beauty.

Puddleglum

The problem I have with loyalty cards is that the loyalty is all one way. Getting something back from the cards is really just an illusion when you compare it to the information and money you have to hand over in the first place although, if you do a lot of shopping with one company, it can be a pretty worthwhile illusion!

That said, I do have a Boots card and a Morrison's petrol card. For everything else I'm pretty fickle in my habits!

jaibaby

Lizling wrote: »

you're an incredibly unusual shopper.

Either that, or very clever one