Tis the season to be wombling - Tesco & Sainsbury's

sarebear_2

i take my mum shopping with me every week and she puts the points from her shopping on my card . i then go through with my own shopping and add my own points to it, and i have never had a letter about my card being used on 2 seperate transactions.
i have also phoned tesco twice because my husband has managed to loose both of the key fob cards , so i have to take his fuel receipts in store and get the points added. they havent sent me any replacements yet, so surely what i am doing could be classed as wombling. but they have never said anything to me about it.
i have to say i dont bother picking up other peoples receipts but when i went shopping today there was a receipt in the trolley that hadn't been scanned so i took it to cs desk and had the points added to my card . 118 extra points thank you very much .

graduate2012

Hizz wrote: »

Correct me if I'm wrong on your comment of conscience but contempt is a more approriate word for Tesco, the most reported supermarket to Trading Standards for overcharging customers against advertised prices - SEL's / P.O.S etc?

They were so confident that they had their house in order that they introduced the R & R policy (refund and retain) where if you paid more than the advertised price you got a full refund and kept the item. As they were somewhat taken to the cleaners by clearly being dishonest traders and lost A LOT of money through this byb way of refunds, they changed their policy this year to DTD (double the difference) for when you are overcharged.

I fail to see how you can deem the word theft to be an appropraite term. Clubcard loyalty points are factored into costs as a cost of sale - whether the purchaser takes them up is their choice - if they don't, it is they that lose out and Tesco gain more profit on top of that already factored in.

It may be against the sport of Clubcard rules but as I always say, who has got more money, us or Mr T.

Twenty five years ago I recall a promotion that the Metro bus company held throughout West Yorkshire, where the value of a bus ticket contributed towards a purchase from a rewards scheme. Unsuprisingly, there were very few disgarded tickets strewn around the busses or stations. Everyone was either keeping their own or picking others up. A very smart idea that kept litter off the floor.

When approaching either Tesco or Sainsbury's Customer Services desk with a receipt, I just ask 'can you put these points on my card please?' I don't exclaim that the receipt was ever mine, nor do they ever ask me!

If people can't be allowed to use initiative and try and do a little extra to keep their heads above water, it's a very sad affair.

Even though i don't disagree with your actions, and i think it is a good idea; it is technically theft, however

As theft is to appropriate property belonging to another with the intention to permanently deprive!, which, your action is

Not trying to offend, just trying to aid in case you get in trouble in the future!

Discodee

Edna_Bucket wrote: »

Err, Blackpool pleasure beach? No you really don't have any self respect do you Discodee!
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

CHEEKY! You havent lived till you've flown round on that pepsi max big one a few times! We love it. get there as it opens and we're flying round 10 mins before it shuts to get a last few rides!!:D :j

Had to come and report back; wombling really is good!

Went to Mr yesterday ( and added on 67 points my obsessed DS had found ) My DS was doing his usual "scrabbling on the floor with no self respect for receipts" malarky/. Anyway he comes running up and mouths, "I've found a fiver"
"You what?" I asks.
He'd picked up a receipt and rolled inside it was a five pound note!!!!:T
Well chuffed he was. he also found me a further 50 odd points in 3 receipts:cool:

Edna_Bucket_2

stacey44156 wrote: »

Even though i don't disagree with your actions, and i think it is a good idea; it is technically theft, however

As theft is to appropriate property belonging to another with the intention to permanently deprive!, which, your action is

Not trying to offend, just trying to aid in case you get in trouble in the future!

To be fair to Hizz, stacey, he did say:

"When approaching either Tesco or Sainsbury's Customer Services desk with a receipt, I just ask 'can you put these points on my card please?' I don't exclaim that the receipt was ever mine, nor do they ever ask me!"

That question could elicit a "No" answer as equally as a "Yes" from CS if they felt like it, so if they do give the go ahead, they have given full permission.

IMHO, putting it that way is probably the best thing to do for people who want to try this.

Discodee

Ems! wrote: »

my oh often gets lunch from tesco near his work but never used the cc so i am alwyas adding loads of receipts on at customer services and never had any letters from Mr T!

:eek: You what? You're an MSE er; tell him to make sarnies!! It said on this money saving thing yesterday by taking a packed lunch to work you save £700 a year

My hubby always takes sarnies yoghurts bics and fruit for his lunch. No way are we paying inflated prices for someone to make it!

Discodee

well said Edna!

Discodee

Don't forget, that technically you are being wrong when giving in many money off coupons. Lots of MOC have on them, "Using this cupon against anything other than the product listed constitutes fraud"
however my opinion is, if Mr T accepts them, he is the one commiting any wrong doing

carolinosourus

stacey44156 wrote: »

Even though i don't disagree with your actions, and i think it is a good idea; it is technically theft, however

As theft is to appropriate property belonging to another with the intention to permanently deprive!, which, your action is

Not trying to offend, just trying to aid in case you get in trouble in the future!

How is she intentionally intending to deprive? As I pointed out in an earlier post, the people who are dropping these receipts are littering- which is illegal, and therefore obviously they don't want the points, so I don't think that Hizz is permanently depriving anyone of anything. If these people wanted the points then they would either give their cc at the checkout or they would keep them until they have their cc if they've lost it or forgotten it.
If someone leaves a piece of furniture or something out for the binmen and someone comes along and takes it (as it was unwanted), would that be considered 'appropriating property belonging to another in order to permanently deprive'?

Marishka

and round and round it goes again!
I've done this from time to time - (always forget to look when rushing in and out but am getting better at keeping track of my plans with help from MSE!)
The way I look at it, "intention to permanently deprive" can't apply when someone has already discarded the item in a public place - ie permanently deprived themselves of it! I can see that Tesco may get sniffy if you constantly hang around the door grabbing dropped/thrown bits of paper and rushing to the counter but as far as I can see, nobody here is suggesting this.
The only problems I can see are
1) if that dreadful word "non-transferable" crops up somewhere in the Clubcard small print (and I haven't looked as yet). In which case, I wonder whose the fault is - us for picking up the discarded points or the original owner for effectively passing them on? (Ok, very nit-pickery, but why not carry on a grand tradition?)
2) if the receipt is discarded on private property - Tesco's car park, a skip, a bin at Tesco's or, obviously, in the shop, then surely it becomes the property of Tesco to dispose of and you are "permanently depriving" them!

I was once stopped by policeman from removing a beautiful 1950s chrome bakery display case from a skip on the basis that once in a skip it belongs to the skip owner so I would be committing theft if I removed it. He was sensible and nice to enough to appreciate that this was a revelation to me, as well as faintly ridiculous and sent me on my way un-arrested but, naturally enough, said skip owner tipped several tonnes of hard core on it next morning. Very sad.

hotpot4

:j I'm a womble too (and so is my mum). Up to about £85 in point (£340 deals) through loopholes and wombling and my own extra points vouchers!!!