What's your favourite loyalty scheme?

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With most companies having a loyalty scheme, customers are bound to have their favourites. This is why we want to know… which is yours?

It might be a supermarket, a high-street retailer, a coffee chain, a travel brand, a restaurant or something more niche, but we want to know which is your favourite.

It could be your favourite for many reasons, such as the ease in which points are accrued, how they’re spent, or their spending power with rewards partners. Share your favourite loyalty schemes in the thread.

ButterCheese

Of the supermarkets: Morrisons and Tesco are my favourite. Firstly because they clearly show discounts on the shelf label. Secondly, and probably most importantly, you can see your points rising and then convert them into hard cash. We redeemed £15 just before Christmas at Morrisons which seems like a very good loyalty gift for shopping there frequently. Same goes for Tesco, but we don't shop there as much so only get a few quid per quarter.

Lidl I don't even bother swiping it anymore. You get 10p off some random biscuits which you wouldn't normally buy, or 20% of bakery items but limitations around which store is eligible and at what time the purchase is made. They can keep their Lidl Fuss card.

The one I think is very clever, is when we ate in a local pub (the food was fantastic), when we paid our bill they gave us two envelopes which was a draw where winners receive from 10%-50% off their next bill. But you can only open the envelope when you come back (within 2 months) for another meal and go to pay. This ensires that we will go back there, knowing that we stand a chance of getting money off our bill, but if we don't then we're already a repeat customer

vacheron

From the Supermarkets I prefer Nectar.

You get a point, there is one kind of point, the point doesn't expire, the point's value doesn't change, the point has a defined monetary equivalent, the point can be redeemed immediately, the point doesn't need to be converted into another kind of (also expiring) point before you can spend it.

Simplicity is key!

DiscountDiva63

For me, I think South Western Railway's Rewards programme is a bit of gem. I've recently been out to one of the Gordon Ramsay's restaurants with my mates and got 20% off, which was such a saving and the theatre offers look like such a good deal. I am currently eyeing up Mamma Mia and it comes with two courses. I don't know if its new or been around for a while.

twopenny

We are really limited in a rural area because although we have 4 supermarkets redeeming some offers just don't apply to our area in the form of discount on theatre or chain stores.

Lidl prices are similar to Tesco and Morrisons being a tourist area and poor on points. Ditto,Boots and Superdrug. Pence only.

So the best is Tesco where careful shopping for discounts plus vouchers. Still keep an eye open for simple price reduction and stock up.

Co op used to be the best where you earned actual cash but they've changed that and now it's poor.

Locally run cafes all offer cards for a coffee free in every 10 you buy. Rurally that works well as they're excellent.