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Real-life MMD: Is it wrong to be a supermarket voucher vulture?
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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.
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.
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
Yup. And I'm a sucker for it.
Dishonest, maybe. Against the stores T&C, maybe. Doesn't constitute fraud though.
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.
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
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!