Nationwide 5% cashback on supermarket spending

TheBanker

Your bold doesn't contradicted anything I posted.

wmb194

MACKEM99 said:

wmb194 said:

TL;DR; Dear oh dear. Most people buy their food at the main supermarkets. Most people's grocery spending will have been covered by this offer. Is this just another example of how you can never win? No good deed goes unpunished?

Come and shop in my store ..You might get discount.  I would prefer a yes or no rather than might.

Were you ever worried your spending wouldn't count at Tesco, Morrisons, Asda, Sainsbury's, Ocado or Waitrose?

Section62

TheBanker said:

Your bold doesn't contradicted anything I posted.

You said "See I don't think it was about that" and "If it was about attracting new customers I think they would have announced it in February, to start run from March to June (or just for three months from the first purchase, or something...)."

Nationwide themselves said the offer was a benefit of having a current account with Nationwide, then explained that it was also open to new members who opened a current account during the offer period.

It is possible your claim is correct and Nationwide didn't launch this scheme as a promotion of their currrent accounts, but if so then it is odd that Nationwide's "Director of Retail Products" used a press release about the offer to promote their current accounts and how opening one would make you eligible for the scheme.

Do you still think the whole scheme was funded by Visa?  If so, then what actual help did Nationwide give members, other than passing on someone else's generosity without giving them the credit due for this benevolent act?

sevenhills

It's good to get £10 back, since there is often £1,000+ in the account.
I guess some people micro manage their money and get interest on surplus money.

MACKEM99

wmb194 said:

MACKEM99 said:

wmb194 said:

TL;DR; Dear oh dear. Most people buy their food at the main supermarkets. Most people's grocery spending will have been covered by this offer. Is this just another example of how you can never win? No good deed goes unpunished?

Come and shop in my store ..You might get discount.  I would prefer a yes or no rather than might.

Were you ever worried your spending wouldn't count at Tesco, Morrisons, Asda, Sainsbury's, Ocado or Waitrose?

Yes I was.  From t&c:

Some of the stores likely to qualify for cashback include Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Aldi, Morrisons, Lidl, Waitrose, the Co-op and Iceland.

I prefer "will"

wmb194

MACKEM99 said:

wmb194 said:

MACKEM99 said:

wmb194 said:

TL;DR; Dear oh dear. Most people buy their food at the main supermarkets. Most people's grocery spending will have been covered by this offer. Is this just another example of how you can never win? No good deed goes unpunished?

Come and shop in my store ..You might get discount.  I would prefer a yes or no rather than might.

Were you ever worried your spending wouldn't count at Tesco, Morrisons, Asda, Sainsbury's, Ocado or Waitrose?

Yes I was.  From t&c:

Some of the stores likely to qualify for cashback include Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Aldi, Morrisons, Lidl, Waitrose, the Co-op and Iceland.

I prefer "will"

Yes, but those shops were never seriously in doubt*, surely? Nationwide and Visa were hedging. But as I wrote, no good deed goes unpunished. I suppose this promotion just shouldn't have happened. We'd all be better off. /s

*Well, possibly the Co-op because the Co-op is a very strange organisation.

Section62

wmb194 said:

MACKEM99 said:

Yes I was.  From t&c:

Some of the stores likely to qualify for cashback include Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda, Aldi, Morrisons, Lidl, Waitrose, the Co-op and Iceland.

I prefer "will"

Yes, but those shops were never seriously in doubt*, surely? Nationwide and Visa were hedging. But as I wrote, no good deed goes unpunished. I suppose this promotion just shouldn't have happened. We'd all be better off. /s

*Well, possibly the Co-op because the Co-op is a very strange organisation.

I think there was doubt about some of them.  The blurb also said "The list of qualifying stores may vary from time to time, and not all supermarket locations in a chain may qualify."

What exactly does that mean?

From this thread alone we know that Co-op and M&S were two 'chains' where some stores (or perhaps just tills) were included or not included in a way that the average customer wouldn't understand why.  And we also know that some B&M shops were included when others weren't.

The impression I got was there was also some doubt about 'express' type stores being included or not, separate from the exclusion of shops attached to petrol stations.

This thread has got to 38 pages - to some degree because there was some doubt about the inclusion/exclusion of certain stores.  If we, the well informed, were having to check and double check then what chance did the average person needed a bit of financial help stand?  And to be fair to MACKEM99, they were making exactly the same point they are now, way back on page 2 of this thread.

dealyboy

I have not received my March cashback yet (4 weeks and 1 day since end of March). I know they have 6 weeks to pay the cashback but I also know it's while they don't exhaust their payment pot of £100m.

What if they run out of money? I know there's no cashback but is there any comeback?, or is it just 'bad luck mate we didn't get to you!'.

MACKEM99

Dealyboy

On line at nationwide it says March will be 12 May and April 12 Jun.  Don't recall if  said  on or  by those dates.  My reminders are set for those dates. Hope this helps

Regards 

M99

dealyboy

@MACKEM99 said:

Dealyboy

On line at nationwide it says March will be 12 May and April 12 Jun.  Don't recall if  said  on or  by those dates.  My reminders are set for those dates. Hope this helps

Regards 

M99

Thanks M ... should be by 12 May, but what happens if they run out of money? Is it tough dooda?