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Real-life MMD: Is it wrong to be a supermarket voucher vulture?

edited 14 May 2013 at 12:27PM in MoneySaving polls
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  • Assuming that they're not linked to a membership card, in which case you might not be able to use them anyway, I see no reason why you shouldn't profit from someone else's disregard of the offer.

    Retailers have a big enough mark-up on their products as it is - just compare Amazon prices to anyone else's - so you're not cheating the supermarket, either.

    In saying this, I'm not sure whether you are a supermarket employee and work at a till, rather than just another customer who happens to pick up the odd discarded voucher to keep the place tidy. If so, I suppose you could adopt the view that you issue the slip as an employee, but pick it up as a customer, just like anyone else who dislikes litter would have done.
  • IanOIanO Forumite
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    ASDA's scheme is slightly different, in that you have to check your till receipt online.
    In this story: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/shopping/2011/03/the-wombler-who-donates-from-asda-and-tesco-bins
    their spokesman encourages others to use discarded receipts to obtain vouchers.
    BEWARE
    I discovered that if you do they will accuse you of fraud and ban you from all ASDA premises.

    It's like they say that they encourage you to behave like this because it makes them sound good, but in reality they behave as if they don't mean it at all.
  • If this is the best "dilemma" you can come up with it really is time to stop this feature.
  • IainHLIainHL Forumite
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    dstanden wrote: »
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    If it is possible to tell you at point of sale how much cheaper it would have been elsewhere, why not deduct it there and then, but print a voucher to say that you have been price-matched to a discounted figure.
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    But surely the point of the voucher is to get you to come back into their store again next week to spend your money with them, so they're not going to do that?
  • louby_loulouby_lou Forumite
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    I have and will take it if its left behind.

    That kind of thing would make my day, which has to be a comment on how expensive food shopping is.

    Since I shop at Aldi 90% of the time I don't have to concern myself with this MMD too often :s
  • louby_loulouby_lou Forumite
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    IainHL wrote: »
    But surely the point of the voucher is to get you to come back into their store again next week to spend your money with them, so they're not going to do that?


    Yup. And I'm a sucker for it.
  • taintain Forumite
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    Lol @ people thinking it's fraud.

    Dishonest, maybe. Against the stores T&C, maybe. Doesn't constitute fraud though.
  • The_ThrillaThe_Thrilla Forumite
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    aljojoal wrote: »
    The vouchers are printed for one reason only; to generate more sales. If the person it was issued to clearly doesn't want it, and the store passes it on to another person who may then may increase spend to benefit from the voucher, then why worry?
    We share our weekly shop between Asda, Tesco and Morrisons, but if we had a voucher to spend in one for a product we used then that's who would get our spend.

    That's it. They are not really giving anything away. Either the offer is priced in, or they have a surfeit and want to clear stuff off the shelves fast to make room for something else. One time I bought on ebay a stack of vouchers for a brand of bread. They were getting close to their expiry date. I noticed the person behind me in the queue had a loaf of the right brand. So I gave her a voucher in full view of the checkout girl. Nobody cared.

    So use it. You are doing somebody somewhere a favour.
  • Tiddles12Tiddles12 Forumite
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    If this is the best "dilemma" you can come up with it really is time to stop this feature.

    Urgh, every week someone has to have a moan about the dilemma subject. If you don't like the look of it just keep scrolling! And shhht.

    I always enjoy them by the way
  • MedstudentMedstudent Forumite
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    I tend to take them but Normally they are discarded and I have no idea who they would be for anyway!

    Popped in yesterday to get some food for the cinema and had loads sitting on the till I used. Double points, £3 off £20 and a £6 off £40! Will make my next shop a heck of a lot cheaper!

    If someone had only just left and it was one of the price match ones I would let them know if only just leaving, but people who leave them I find just tend to be in a rush to get on and don't care!
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