'Womblers' hit out at Asda's decision to axe price guarantee - MSE News

mjm3346

I do not think ASDA are going to be bothered about "womblers" being upset - every receipt "wombled" was not benefiting the customer it was intended for but was still costing ASDA money.

POPPYOSCAR

Once again a good thing is abused by some and this gets it removed for the genuine people.

MalF

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Once again a good thing is abused by some and this gets it removed for the genuine people.

A lot of axes being ground on this topic. If ASDA considered the womblers to be the issue, surely they could have put out a vague comment about the system being abused to justify the withdrawal. But they didn't. It's almost as if your sanctimonious posturing has no basis in fact.

MalF

mjm3346 wrote: »

I do not think ASDA are going to be bothered about "womblers" being upset - every receipt "wombled" was not benefiting the customer it was intended for but was still costing ASDA money.

More sanctimonious rubbish. ASDA were never bothered about wombling, as it provided ASDA with a regular update on how well they were doing in their bid to be the cheapest around on real shopping baskets. APG vouchers were generated against shops, not shoppers. Transactions, not people. Every eligible transaction was due a voucher regardless of who showed up with the proof.

mjm3346

MalF wrote: »

More sanctimonious rubbish. ASDA were never bothered about wombling, as it provided ASDA with a regular update on how well they were doing in their bid to be the cheapest around on real shopping baskets. APG vouchers were generated against shops, not shoppers. Transactions, not people. Every eligible transaction was due a voucher regardless of who showed up with the proof.

I did not say ASDA were bothered about "wombling" just that they will not be bothered about upsetting them by withdrawing the scheme.

"Womblers" did not provide any information to ASDA about their prices that they did not already know and of course ASDA have every receipt issued should they choose to check prices that way.
If a customer who was potentially due a payment did not claim it there was no loss to ASDA while if they did claim there was a bit of positive PR to offset against the payment. There was mostly just loss by "womblers" claiming.

Scrapping the scheme and going for lower prices would enable all their customers to benefit without needing to make any effort to do so, particularly useful for the less internet savvy customers.

MalF

mjm3346 wrote: »

Scrapping the scheme and going for lower prices would enable all their customers to benefit without needing to make any effort to do so, particularly useful for the less internet savvy customers.

If you genuinely believe this will lead to lower prices at ASDA for anyone (beyond a big PR blowout in early October, quietly rolled back after Halloween) then I have a bridge to sell you.

PasturesNew

celebrity 'wombler'

Bye bye people, I can now die in peace .... I now know I HAVE seen it all!

Fingerbobs

"wombling" aside, I think they're silly scrapping the scheme altogether. It's a great way to suck punters back to Asda week after week.

Without the voucher for money off their next shop, where's the incentive to go back to Asda?

mjm3346

MalF wrote: »

If you genuinely believe this will lead to lower prices at ASDA for anyone (beyond a big PR blowout in early October, quietly rolled back after Halloween) then I have a bridge to sell you.

I do not believe it any more than when TESCO scrapped their far better scheme.

Fingerbobs wrote: »

"wombling" aside, I think they're silly scrapping the scheme altogether. It's a great way to suck punters back to Asda week after week.

Without the voucher for money off their next shop, where's the incentive to go back to Asda?

According to them the scheme was used by less than 1% so clearly it was not much of an incentive.

The few thousand "womblers" it is said there are is not much of a dent when ASDA claim over 18,000,000 customers a week.

If they really wanted to improve the scheme then the price check should have been automatic and the actual bill reduced immediately (as it was with Tesco).


All of these schemes were open to manipulation by separating out your shopping into two lots, one with everything they were more expensive on and the other where they were cheaper.

kindofagilr

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Once again a good thing is abused by some and this gets it removed for the genuine people.

Totally agree