MSE News: Asda launches first-ever loyalty scheme offering discounts on groceries

sarah1972

Lesley101 said:

Can I use this on-line?  I have a phone with apps but use the online service only, not going into the store.  Thanks. 

Yes, I only shop online. You will see star products online.

Mnoee

It looks awful - is a packet of potatoes with 10% back in stars cheaper per kilo than this other packet of potatoes per kilo? Let me get the calculator out. Clubcard prices have the same issue. Is this going to be the same as clubcard prices in the sense that they're no different or better than the normal offers they used to have? 

Add to that 'missions' which do psychologically make people overspend on things they wouldn't otherwise buy. Yes, maybe picking up two extra bananas to complete the fruit and veg task is better than missing out on the £1.50 - but if those bananas end up in the composter cause no-one actually wanted them, that's a lot of food waste.

Finally add really short voucher times and it's a perfect storm of everything I don't want! 

tinalouise69

I had my online shop come this morning and my mission hasn't been updated. When my online shop came last week my mission was updated straight away. Don't know what's going on.

molerat

Well that was easy money.  Spent £2.78 on 5 cheap health and beauty products without actually realising and got a £2 mission reward - as well as the 1p off my shop

YoungBlueEyes

Speaking of Clubcard prices - I’ve gone off Tesco since I realised they put up the prices of the items on clubcard promotion so it looks cheaper. 

Himself uses a lot of Nivea for men face moisturiser. I buy it every other week. So when it was on the ‘Clubcard Prices’ deal I grabbed a handful before realising it had never been as dear as either of the prices on the ticket! If that makes sense… 

So they’d ‘reduced’ it from £4 to a Clubcard Price of £3.50, when it’s been £2.79for yonks. 

I wonder how many other items they’ve done this with… 

Mnoee

YoungBlueEyes said:

Speaking of Clubcard prices - I’ve gone off Tesco since I realised they put up the prices of the items on clubcard promotion so it looks cheaper. 

Himself uses a lot of Nivea for men face moisturiser. I buy it every other week. So when it was on the ‘Clubcard Prices’ deal I grabbed a handful before realising it had never been as dear as either of the prices on the ticket! If that makes sense… 

So they’d ‘reduced’ it from £4 to a Clubcard Price of £3.50, when it’s been £2.79for yonks. 

I wonder how many other items they’ve done this with… 

That's probably just the rising cost of everything. I'm trying to think of something I regularly buy that HASN'T gone up in the last year and struggling. I haven't noticed any prices jumping up before a reduction then returning to the low price in the last 3 years of weekly shopping there. 

I don't know which particular moisturiser you mean, but the nivea mens ones all seem to be £5+ at the moment. 

Robin9

elsien said:

Seems like a lot of faffing around for little effect.  

Likewise  - all it does is slow down the checkouts

Abbafan1972

Robin9 said:

elsien said:

Seems like a lot of faffing around for little effect.  

Likewise  - all it does is slow down the checkouts

Why does it slow down the checkouts?

My local Asda was one of the stores doing the trial and I have successfully converted quite a few vouchers and got money off my shopping, since it started around October time I think. 

molerat

Abbafan1972 said:

Robin9 said:

elsien said:

Seems like a lot of faffing around for little effect.  

Likewise  - all it does is slow down the checkouts

Why does it slow down the checkouts?

My local Asda was one of the stores doing the trial and I have successfully converted quite a few vouchers and got money off my shopping, since it started around October time I think. 

I use Scan & Go, certainly no slowing down there unless you have to faff around finding your phone  in the same way as those paying cash spend an age rummaging for the odd 5p and those paying with chip and pin that have to find the card then remember the pin. My phone is out anyway to pay.  If you are paying with a voucher it is pre loaded so a simple scan of the app barcode, which you have to do anyway, pays with the voucher.

Seems like a lot of faffing around for little effect

I spent a total of £17 over 2 small shops, buying things I actually went in for and not influenced by the app offers, and have got £2.20 in rewards so a 13% discount to spend on future shops plus 2p off my bills .

YoungBlueEyes

Mnoee said:

That's probably just the rising cost of everything. 

This ain’t that. 

They put out shelf edge labels that say they’ve reduced it from £4, but it’s never need that dear. That’s what I take umbrage at.