MSE News: Sainsbury's to launch 'Brand Match' scheme. Is it any good?

savemoney

I been 3 times now to Sainsburys for weekly shop spent well over £70 and I never once got a voucher just on receipt saying how much I have saved. I know I bought several branded goods in each shop. OH works at Sainsburys surely that cant make the difference I know she gets staff discount 10% now 15% earlier this week

mhoc

The machines do seem to be giving out more extra nectar points till spits this week eg
240 wys £60
200 wys £50

also I've had/collected these which could be used in combination

spend £2.50 at the cheese counter get xxx extra nectar points
spend £5 at the meat counter get xxx extra nectar points
spend £3 on frozen meals get 60 extra nectar points

I've also had extra nectar points vouchers for buying this weekends £10 meal deal - either 150 or 200 points.

These seem to scan better at the SS machibes but we could get nothing to scan today so it was off to CS who put the extra points on no problem.

Middy

I got a coupon for £1 off carte noir coffee. The 200g jars are down to £4 from £5.99. With staff discount i got this for £2.60.

Middy

savemoney wrote: »

I been 3 times now to Sainsburys for weekly shop spent well over £70 and I never once got a voucher just on receipt saying how much I have saved. I know I bought several branded goods in each shop. OH works at Sainsburys surely that cant make the difference I know she gets staff discount 10% now 15% earlier this week

It makes no difference if with staff discount. The qualifying £20 is before staff discount. On one occasion i spent £18.77 after sd and got a 99p coupon.
So you can save more with sd than buying it elsewhere. Take a bottle of spirits costs you £16 and spend a few more things to make it £20. A or T sell it for £15. You will get a coupon for a quid off your next shop. The bottle actually cost you £14.40 - 60p less than the others.

Kerry73

Sainsburys will only give a max of 10 voucher back! Champagne in sainsburys at 35, on sale in asda at 20 - sainsburys will not match the deal as they limit to 10 refund. How is this matching any deal/price in other supermarkets??

Middy

I had a customer that bought 4 tins of Quality Street at £5 each. Asda have them at £4. She never got a voucher.

Kerry73, phone the careline on 0800626363 option 5 for advice.

lacithecat

I have been skimming the whole thread, but I thought I would point out something I did not realise until at the till last week.

There are differences in what kind of coupon you get. Sometimes they just give you a print out of what you have saved, and sometimes its a voucher. It has to have a barcode on it to be the later. I think I have been throwing the darn things away as I did not realise it was money off my next shop ...

Dan_Avery

I'm suspicious. When the Asda and Tesco price match schemes launched I received many useful vouchers on my weekly shop. On my last 8 or so shops in Tesco, Asda and Sainsburys all have told me that they are cheaper than their rivals. Either I've been particularly lucky with savvy shopping or are the comparisons not as transparent as I'm hoping?
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thelawnet

Dan_Avery wrote: »

I'm suspicious. When the Asda and Tesco price match schemes launched I received many useful vouchers on my weekly shop. On my last 8 or so shops in Tesco, Asda and Sainsburys all have told me that they are cheaper than their rivals. Either I've been particularly lucky with savvy shopping or are the comparisons not as transparent as I'm hoping?
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Quite possibly so.

I got a voucher from Sainsburys saying I had saved £7.62 when I shopped there. Why? Because I bulk-bought the special offers.

That's what most people will do. You might need, from time to time:

cereal
fruit juice
toilet paper
washing powder
dishwasher tablets
wine

But you are not necessarily going to buy them all every trip, nor in the same quantity. If you're out of 'Finish dishwasher tablets' you'll buy a box, but if they are half price, you'll buy three boxes, therefore saving 3* and you won't have to buy them for a while.

Everyone picks up some special offer or other every supermarket they go to, and because those offers are different, if you'd bought the same goods at another supermarket, they would cost more.

But..... over a year, taking into account special offers + so on, one supermarket will come out cheaper. You can't really tell which it will be that easily, unfortunately, due to the special offers.

Anyway, the way to get the most discount without doing research is to divide your trolley into two - everyting branded on special goes through together as one transaction, while the own-brand/unbranded stuff goes through with the branded stuff that's NOT on special. Chances are you'll get a voucher for the branded stuff that's not on special this way.

anyakitten

Hi all,

I have to say I think its just a bit of marketing on behalf of Sainsburys. I bought 4 douwe egberts pure gold coffees 190g from them at £6.59 each. Sainsbury's brand match printed off a brand match voucher for £2.36, which was the first I'd heard of the scheme. I read on the voucher that it meant they matched against asda and tesco, so when I got home I checked the websites and found that asda sold the same product sold for £4.50 a jar at asda - meaning I should have received a voucher for £8.36. When I called customer service I was first told I must have purchased other products, then that they outsourced to another company to check the website and that it mustn't be the same product on the asda website. I confirmed it was exactly the same product and was offered as a "gesture of goodwill" as it wouldn't be sainsbury's fault I hadn't been given the full match nectar points, then a gift card for £5 before I finally got the £6. All I can say is don't believe the hype !