MSE News: Nectar points cut in half at Sainsbury's and points for bag reuse scrapped 14 October 2014 at 1:10PM in Food shopping & groceries 71 replies 19.6K views

maman

RichByName wrote: »

I don't think Sainsbury's have anything to worry about. Tesco have gradually devalued the Clubcard over the last five or six years and, in the process, used almost identical spin to that which Sainsbury's are using now.

And just look how well they are doing! :rotfl:

Exactly, Sainsbury do need to be careful that they don't go the way of Tesco. The signs are all there including opening up lots of small 'metro style' stores.

Beckyy wrote: »

Anything is a bonus, I don't shop based on rewards so anything that accrues is a nice.

Absolutely. I'll continue doing 90%+ of my shopping in Aldi and Farmfoods and going to Sainsbury's (nearest large SM to those two) for the small and shrinking list of things that I can't get elsewhere.

KTF

maman wrote: »

Exactly, Sainsbury do need to be careful that they don't go the way of Tesco. The signs are all there including opening up lots of small 'metro style' stores.

Consumer shopping habits are changing. Instead of going shopping once a week at a big store they are now getting one delivery via online then topping up during the week at a smaller 'local' store or discounter.

So all the big stores that the supermarkets have are slowly changing into costly, inefficient, home delivery depots which is why they have started selling off their land bank and started to focus more on the smaller store format.

mjm3346

Amounts to a 0.5% price increase on almost everything they sell.

Add that to taking Tesco out of their brand match (scared of the Tesco price cuts), only matching ASDA unlike ASDA who match to 10% less than Sainsbury prices and they don't have much going for them - expect profit warnings and falling sales.

maman

KTF wrote: »

Consumer shopping habits are changing. Instead of going shopping once a week at a big store they are now getting one delivery via online then topping up during the week at a smaller 'local' store or discounter.

So all the big stores that the supermarkets have are slowly changing into costly, inefficient, home delivery depots which is why they have started selling off their land bank and started to focus more on the smaller store format.

I think that was the anticipated trend but it doesn't account for the growing number of people who are now shopping at Aldi and Lidl (who don't deliver) and ignoring the larger SMs altogether.

jules888

Dont buy much from there anyway but dont think its a good way to go and wont help them get any more people shopping there.
I"ll be shopping even more in Aldi as take credit cards now and mine is a cashback one.That is the way to go!

Pincher

I seem to get Double Nectar Points a lot, because of the coupons. I have a fuel only Double Nectar Point coupon right now.

Really scored big a few months ago, spent £250, got ~500 points.

So if everybody is getting double points, they have to halve its value.

Kite2010

So the bonus points will be for some completely random stuff you have never purchased or anything similar. For example 100 bonus points for hair colouring products?

Whatever next, making radical changes to their £3 meal-deal to exclude many more products?

savingpennies

We buy all our petrol at Sainsburys. It's always the same price as the local Asda but nectar points give them the edge. Occasionally buy work clothes from there when they have their 25% off sales. Our food shop is always at Aldi/Lidl/Farmfoods.

ACG

Kite2010 wrote: »

So the bonus points will be for some completely random stuff you have never purchased or anything similar. For example 100 bonus points for hair colouring products?

Whatever next, making radical changes to their £3 meal-deal to exclude many more products?

Do you think?
We got a booklet through last week, I think it had 6 things in there of which all of them were things I have purchased - some as a 1 off, others I buy regularly.

Nickolai

We shop there regularly and appreciate the little treats we get with accumulated Nectar points. I got a dvd last week, my wife is going to get a cook book in the morning.

Sainsburys have changed and not for the better. The brand match is now with Asda only....and yet the latest TV ad matches prices with Tesco. Now the Nectar points awarded are being halved.

We stopped shopping with Tesco when they abandoned the double clubcard points in favour supposedly better offers. It looks like the time has come to move on again.