Supermarket Challenges

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Mercenary Keyboard Warrior

Mercenary Keyboard Warrior

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BBC article about this :

www.bbc.co.uk

Warning supermarket loyalty 'challenges' could cause overspending

Consumer groups say the latest loyalty promotions could encourage shoppers to go over budget.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

It was news to me until about 2 weeks ago when I got an email about it from Tesco.
Need to pick 10 categories (upto) and then had spend limits applied to each one to get bonus points.

I am pretty rigid with our shopping so wont really succumb to this offer. Maybe a few top ups if close at the end.
Most of the categories I selected are things that are non-perishable, such as cat food etc so no biggie if I have to buy an extra pack or so since I would have been buying anyway.
But I can 100% see some people falling for this and buying stuff that ends up out of date, or wasted as excess.

As ever I see it as an opportunity for me to beat them as opposed to the opposite.
Bring on your challenges I say ;)
 
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So save money by spending more?! Never heard of it.

But if you're stupid enough to spend more than you can afford, you can see why people end up in trouble.
 
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Lidl in Sweden do stupid **** like this.
The app has scratch cards, entry into raffles, "free" products when you spend over certain amounts.

It's all a bit stupid if you are susceptable to junk like this.
 
Shadowness said:
So save money by spending more?! Never heard of it.

But if you're stupid enough to spend more than you can afford, you can see why people end up in trouble.
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It's usually called 'stretch spend' and it's pretty common in the B2B world - you'll give companies better incentives for spending more, but it's really not the same when applied to consumers and it's just yet another thing that Sainsburys, Tesco etc. are doing that's questionable.

Nectar prices being inflated then 'dropped' the next week is just another part to it all.
 
Dual pricing, people who spend what feels like a lifetime inspecting an item, staff not around at self-checkout when something goes wrong, convenience stores not being that convenient, prices increases and massive profits - all make me want to get in and out as quickly as possible.

These challenges can **** off.
 
Now if they bought back the Waitrose scheme with reduced price on your favourite/nominated 8 odd products, from their list,
that waitrose card serves no purpose anymore, unless I remember to pick up their magasine for folks, don't even have a weekly lottery for those that use it;
but I guess we get profiled via the bank card, if not cctv id.

The scanners are another scam - people spend longer in the shops considering labelling and their purchases ker-ching
 
I wasn't impressed with this tbh I prefer the Lidl app as you get lots of freebies
Edit just did a scratch card on the app and got free oranges,bananas last week so it's not bad
 
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I had to travel across the bottom end of manchester to go to a waitrose so I could purchase french mustard (not djion) and spinach fusilli/farfalle as all my local tescos, aldi, lidl, sainsburys and asda didn't stock it and has stopped stocking it since lockdown.

not sure how this relates to the thread but I thought I would share my pain... lol
 
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So save money by spending more?! Never heard of it.
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Thing is if your going to pick up that shopping anyway you might as well get some freebies, so I've got my free oranges and 15 percent off oat milk and probably a free bakery item by the time I go.
Small money maybe but better in my pocket
 
Crap like this just needs to be banned, it is high time someone drew a line and stopped big businesses from abusive practices. Yes you can call it an ‘idiot tax’ but should we just be hand waving away companies abusing the vulnerable in society? For me the one thing that we have proven with free markets is that big business can be utterly relied upon to show no conscience what so ever while looking to maximise profit and the self regulation simply doesn’t work these people only listen if you force them too!
 
The wife has just had another email from Tesco saying how much she will save if ?
I delete them and wife never see's them.
Best way to save money is not to buy junk.
 
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