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

smokey112

Hi - you can only spend your Nectar points in Multiples of £2.50
I spent £40 the other day
HTH
Ang

bognorcodger

Not so many nectar points, perhaps, but you can still maximise your savings provided you have the time - and inclination - to do a bit of preparation before you go to Sainsburys to shop.

The rule is 'take two baskets into the store'

Before you leave home, or using your tablet in-store (if you dare), check mysupermarket.com to compare Sainsburys against Asda prices today.
If Sainsburys is cheaper, put it in basket 1.
If Asda is cheaper put it into basket 2. (at least 10 items to qualify for price match).

Checkout basket 1 and you get your maximum savings against Asda.
Checkout basket 2 and you get your maximum cash credit for next shop.
(If you check out everything together the savings you could have made on (1) are used to offset against (2) ).

If you have a Tesco nearby, you can get really into this and pop into Tesco on the way home for the items that are cheaper than both Asda and Sainsburys !

OK - a bit 'sad' and needs dedication, but you can make substantial savings.

A._Badger

bognorcodger wrote: »

Not so many nectar points, perhaps, but you can still maximise your savings provided you have the time - and inclination - to do a bit of preparation before you go to Sainsburys to shop.

The rule is 'take two baskets into the store'

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Or, alternatively, just avoid Sainsbury's all together. In my opinion it's easily the most unjustifiably overpriced of all the main supermarkets, with the possible exception of the truly ghastly Co-Op. At least in Waitrose you get a selection of premiium/luxury prodiucts. In Sainsbury's you just get the same old stuff just as Sainsbury's 'special' prices.

System

smokey112 wrote: »

Hi - you can only spend your Nectar points in Multiples of £2.50
I spent £40 the other day
HTH
Ang

This is a right PITA if you buy a CD, DVD etc which costs £9.99. Only can use £7.50 of Nectar points. Then paying £2.49.

garynumanfan

I used to run an entry form competition swap group , then few years ago virtually overnight all supermarkets stopped doing entry form competitions. morrisons used to run loads of entry form competitions. Even if they werent POP competitions, going to morrisons was a reason to find the entry forms. nowadays there is no specific reason to go to any particular shops. I tend not to go to asda as they don't have a loyalty card

[Deleted User]

I'm not that fussed as I don't often shop at sainsbugs and have only about £6 odd in points on my nectar card.I usually use them when we are away on holiday for any extras if we are near to a branch but I am loyal to no shop really I shop where my money goes the furthest ,at the moment its Aldees

Nada666

Andik1962 wrote: »

Just got told tonight that I can only spend £2.50 worth of our Nectar points at a time in Sainsburys. Anyone know about this? If so, really mean and will not bother collecting them any more

smokey112 wrote: »

Hi - you can only spend your Nectar points in Multiples of £2.50
I spent £40 the other day
HTH
Ang

A few months late but I thought it was worse than that - have they not increased the minimum cash-in to £5?

Moneyshow15

Sainsbury really have missed a trick here, as (for the moment anyway) you keep the status quo for shopping points if you have their PAYG mobile phone SIM, using Vodafone's network, and buy a bundle with the credit. As a newbie I can't post the link but google mobile by Sainsbury to see it. That gets you a £15 bundle just for setting up the SIM and linking it to your Nectar card, no top-up-to-get-the-deal catch it seems. That deal runs until 2nd May.

So that softens the blow of losing the bag re-use points for me anyway as I don't want to use credit to get points anymore. I don't work for Sainsburys, just wanted to move to Vodafone without paying their top whack prices, so the points deal is a bonus on top that Sainsbury didn't have to do and should have been shouting from the rooftops for all the people without cars.

What's the worst thing that happens, you have the double points for 30 days for nothing and then go back to whoever you normally used if you're out of contract.

spbankie

Anyone else get the e-mail that they are offering 10x normal points for petrol fill ups for the next month? Runs from today for one month.

KTF

See here: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/shopping/2015/04/sainsburys-launches-biggest-ever-points-giveaway-as-it-halves-points-earned-in-store