Supermarket 2 tier pricing

murphydog999

I appreciate this is a money saving site, but isn't this growing 2 tier pricing system in supermarkets discriminatory? Just because you aren't shopping with one of their data-mining cards you are expected to pay more?? Can't see how they can get away with this for much longer, the consumer groups need to get on the back of it and/or people should be taking their business to ethical companies.

born_again

Covered here. 
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6459899/sainsburys-nectar-card-prices#latest

Brie

my complaint is that some cards don't allow you to have a discount they are offering to someone else with the same account.  Like Sainsburys.  My OH & I have an account but we have different cards.  He gets sent vouchers but I don't.  He doesn't use vouchers but I do.  Sainsburys isn't happy if we switch cards as they don't like it if he is using Betty's card and I'm using Al's.  So I as the secondary card holder is discriminated against.  I've asked to have the account changed and been told it can't be done and then I've been told it will be done but a couple of years down the road nothing has changed.  

I also dislike having to cart around a suitcase full of cards so that I'm not too disadvantaged when I drop into some random shop.  I do have a couple of apps on my phone but there's only so much space so I've had to NOT add others so that the phone will still function.  (not helped by the fact that half the stores in our area admittedly have no wifi so the phone app is useless anyway).

molerat

I also dislike having to cart around a suitcase full of cards

If you have Google Wallet you can have many of the cards in there.

YoungBlueEyes

I agree with you murphydog, it's one of the reasons I do the bulk of my shopping at Aldi. 

unforeseen

  So I as the secondary card holder is discriminated against. 

No you are not. It's the ACCOUNT that gets the voucher not the card. They go to your OH as the account is in their name. 

Emmia

molerat said:

I also dislike having to cart around a suitcase full of cards

If you have Google Wallet you can have many of the cards in there.

This is exactly what I do, all the cards are there.

PLRFD

If I do Google Wallet will I need net access as this would kill it stone dead for me.

molerat

PLRFD said:

If I do Google Wallet will I need net access as this would kill it stone dead for me.

Only to load the cards.  In the Nectar app and many others there is a "load to Google Wallet" click. Or you can add them manually. Once the cards are loaded they are held on the device.

born_again

Brie said:

my complaint is that some cards don't allow you to have a discount they are offering to someone else with the same account.  Like Sainsburys.  My OH & I have an account but we have different cards.  He gets sent vouchers but I don't.  He doesn't use vouchers but I do.  Sainsburys isn't happy if we switch cards as they don't like it if he is using Betty's card and I'm using Al's.  So I as the secondary card holder is discriminated against.  I've asked to have the account changed and been told it can't be done and then I've been told it will be done but a couple of years down the road nothing has changed.  

I also dislike having to cart around a suitcase full of cards so that I'm not too disadvantaged when I drop into some random shop.  I do have a couple of apps on my phone but there's only so much space so I've had to NOT add others so that the phone will still function.  (not helped by the fact that half the stores in our area admittedly have no wifi so the phone app is useless anyway).

We all use the same card, they have no idea who is using the card. Even used vouchers other people have left behind in store. Credits my account.
I have it on my phone, daughter has a physical one.

As others all my various cards are as app's on phone. Sainsburys, Morrisions, M&S.

baser999

Just link the two accounts then doesn’t matter who uses the card