What is this green coins thing in Asda?

HeadAboveWater

Shelldean wrote: »

according to the asda website .........

A token should be given out at every transaction with an extra token per child and double if they use their own bags.

see HERE

Never had any coins offered to me and we (almost!) always use our own bags!!!

Seen the chutes but never had a clue what they were about. Will keep eyes open next time and pay more attention...

Stompa

ThumbRemote wrote: »

I don't mind the supermarkets copying ideas from one another, but do they really have to copy the pointless ideas as well?

Agreed, it is a really daft idea.

mttylad

Yeah, giving money to local organizations and charities is really daft.

mjm3346

welshbookworm wrote: »

Snap
Our local Waitrose raises about a £1000 a month through this every month and it is Local charities, which is brilliant.

That's just they way they want you to think of it, "Waitrose raises", but of course it is nothing of the sort. Waitrose charges their shoppers then gives some of that money to charity, so shoppers have raised the money by paying more than they need for their goods.

Bowling_4_Gold

Kite2010 wrote: »

You could say the same 6 things with the Waitrose scheme.

Correct, but if you've ever seen Asda from the inside (not trying to say it's the same for every store) then you'd realise that it'd be pretty difficult for the company to get even one of them right.

Waitrose adopt a completely different management style which actually means things get done!

fluffnutter

mjm3346 wrote: »

That's just they way they want you to think of it, "Waitrose raises", but of course it is nothing of the sort. Waitrose charges their shoppers then gives some of that money to charity, so shoppers have raised the money by paying more than they need for their goods.

You don't know that their business model deliberately includes in the price of goods the money that they give to local charities. Rather, it may be that their profits increase as a result of being more engaged with the local communities because people see this as a reason to shop there. The charitable donations are then taken out of these increased profits. Unless you're party to Waitrose's pricing strategy, your comment is merely speculative.

Waitrose is a partnership anyway - it's owned by its employees. It doesn't have any shareholders to appease and can do whatever it likes with its profits.

mjm3346

fluffnutter wrote: »

Rather, it may be that their profits increase as a result of being more engaged with the local communities because people see this as a reason to shop there. The charitable donations are then taken out of these increased profits. Unless you're party to Waitrose's pricing strategy, your comment is merely speculative.

Waitrose is a partnership anyway - it's owned by its employees. It doesn't have any shareholders to appease and can do whatever it likes with its profits.

Whatever way you slice and dice it the money comes from shoppers pockets.
(Not having ago at Waitrose, most of the others are just the same with vouchers for schools etc).

MissyF

paulwellerfan wrote: »

no but you have to spend a certain amount before they offer you one.

Not so...one offered per customer, 2 if you have used your own bags.

OP- how often do you visit Asda? This has been going on for over 3 months now and there is information posted around till areas and especially the big white and green community board where you find the chutes to put your coins.
Also, imagine having to explain the same thing to customers every shift-avaeraging 1 customer every 3 minutes, over a 5-12 hour shift, 3-6 days a week for 12 weeks....you do the maths. No wonder the poor checkout operator didnt want to have to go through it again!

Stompa

mttylad wrote: »

Yeah, giving money to local organizations and charities is really daft.

That's not what I said, I have no problem with them giving money to charities. All supermarkets do that.

It's the green token scheme that's daft. It's pretty clear that it's designed to make the supermarkets look good, by giving a lot of publicity to their charitable donations. And by giving customers a token which they then place in a slot, they are trying to make their customers 'feel good' (as if they've made a personal charitable donation, when of course they've done nothing of the sort).

It'll also be costing the supermarkets money to implement the scheme, money which IMO would be better going directly to the charities.

mjm3346

Our local Waitrose used to allow charity collectors around the store entrance but that was stopped because "they run their own scheme". The collectors (certainly for one of the charities I was involved with) used to raise more money in a weekend than Waitrose would "give" in several months.