Revealed: Sainsbury's trial of new Nectar loyalty scheme extended nationwide - MSE News

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Roger1 said:

typistretired said:

Well if you are over 70 and you have not given your correct name and DOB you will not be eligible to priority food delivery slots as Sainsbury use your Nectar details to allocate

Really?  I've just checked my Nectar account online.  It does not include my d.o.b., nor can I add it.  Ditto for my wife.

Guess what?  We still can't buy from Sainsbury's online, in spite of being physical customers for over 40 years.  When this is all over, we'll remember our experience, and who's been looking after us - mainly Waitrose.  If we never shop at Sainsbury's again, it will be too soon, to misquote Groucho Marx.

Same here except I stopped being a regular Sainsbury shopper a long time ago. Too many gripes with this supermarket to list here but their slowness to react to panic buying, inability to increase delivery slots are two of the things to add.

maman

Did a small shop in Sainsbury's this afternoon while out on my walk. It came to £32+. I tried contactless but it wouldn't work. When I asked why (as the limit increased to £45 this week) the casher said that Sainsbury's weren't doing it yet??

I do 90%+ of my shopping in Aldi these days but Sainsbury's is the nearest other SM for the 10%. The other option is Waitrose. I'm not impressed with either. Although they retracted PDQ, to avoid reputational damage, Waitrose had planned to ask all staff from a self isolating household to make up the time missed on their return to work for free!

General_Grant

maman said:

Did a small shop in Sainsbury's this afternoon while out on my walk. It came to £32+. I tried contactless but it wouldn't work. When I asked why (as the limit increased to £45 this week) the casher said that Sainsbury's weren't doing it yet??

I do 90%+ of my shopping in Aldi these days but Sainsbury's is the nearest other SM for the 10%. The other option is Waitrose. I'm not impressed with either. Although they retracted PDQ, to avoid reputational damage, Waitrose had planned to ask all staff from a self isolating household to make up the time missed on their return to work for free!

I know that it is not a popular view and that Waitrose were persuaded it was not a good idea but, given that Waitrose would have paid them in advance for that time (ie when they were not working but not themselves sick), I think it misleading to suggest that the staff making up for lost time would be working for free when they would really have been working for the pay they had already received. 

maman

That's true technically but as they were self isolating on government instructions rather than just staying off work voluntarily, it wasn't a good idea. It came across as punishing employees because someone in the family had symptoms. Waitrose must have thought so too, on reflection, as enough people disagreed with them to damage their reputation. 

I think many people are compiling a 'black list' of companies that have behaved badly during this time. Waitrose didn't want to be on this. 🙂