is anyone else addicted to tesco clubcard points?

[iviv]

Of course its a marketing ploy. People will spend a little bit extra to get that one more coupon for their school. But people do it, proving that the marketing is working.

Still, I don't see anything wrong with it. After all, they aren't forcing people to buy more. They don't make things more expensive.
But I'm pretty sure the values are much less than those.

edit: http://www.computersforschools.co.uk/schools/choose_equipment.html
That's the cataloge that shows the things you can get.
Since 1 voucher = £10, multiply the number of vouchers by 10 to find out how much you need to spend in Tesco to get the equipment.

 

[OpenToSuggestions]

I work at tesco and it annoys me when old ****s moan about green points for 2 bags they reused then they came down in a 4litre landrover.

As I have a 10% discount card \o/ my parents use it and so I get all their vouchers. likewise at university

 

[Fusion]

I love the way people rave about certain clubcards etc and then probably say how identity cards are evil because the state would know too much about us. :|

Yup. I wouldn't be happy knowing that a supermarket had comprehensive files detailing my purchasing habits, that are then used for god knows what.

Quite worrying how many are roped in by the system.

 

[Nix]

No, because if I was addicted that would make me weird.

 

[Jonnycoupe]

Dont really shop in Tesco's so am not really qualified to say, however one of our tutors at college (marketing class) was talking the other day about the Tesco "Computers For Schools" scheme - he was basically saying how much of a rip off it was !

Am sure he'd worked out you would have to spend £44K on shopping to purchase 1 scanner for a computer and it was something crazy like quarter of a million pounds worth of shopping before you'd have enough to purchase a PC.

He rekons its all nothing more than a clever marketing ploy thats got the public fooled - anyone else have any input on this ?

2500 familys spending £100 on shopping each week. So in a comprehensive of 800 students.... Thats potential for a new PC every 3 weeks. Hardly a scam or a rip off.

Even if the numbers were stupidly off its not a rip off as you pay no extra to participate in the scheme

 

[Jonnycoupe]

I work at tesco and it annoys me when old ****s moan about green points for 2 bags they reused then they came down in a 4litre landrover.

Why?

Its better thana brand new 1.2 Corsa.

 

[lofz]

I've never paid much attention to them, I do have a card though. I might check out if I have enough for a free shop...

(I shop with Tesco online)

 

[Fusion]

Dont really shop in Tesco's so am not really qualified to say, however one of our tutors at college (marketing class) was talking the other day about the Tesco "Computers For Schools" scheme - he was basically saying how much of a rip off it was !

Am sure he'd worked out you would have to spend £44K on shopping to purchase 1 scanner for a computer and it was something crazy like quarter of a million pounds worth of shopping before you'd have enough to purchase a PC.

He rekons its all nothing more than a clever marketing ploy thats got the public fooled - anyone else have any input on this ?

Tesco also supply sports equipment to schools. To get a pack of three tennis balls, you have to spend £1,140 at their stores. For a pair of inflatable armbands for swimming, you have to splash out £840. A football, £2,200. For a trampoline, you'd have to spend nearly a million quid!

Illustrates what a joke the scheme is.

 

[Basher]

For the real fans, get a Tesco credit card, 0.5 points for every pound you spend, anywhere!

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I've become obsessed. I now hoover up any ink cartridges and mobile phones i can find anywhere to send off to get points. last quarter I got 7300 points, £73 worth. clubcard deals times that by 4!

this quarter I have £35 already.

I have become a total weirdo and now visit all my local tesco stores looking for receipts on the floor. I then take a wad with points on up to the customer service desk and get them put onto my card.

am I sad? weird? stupid?

Technically, that is stealing.

One member of the Tesco staff (where I worked), was disciplined for finding receipts and putting the points on his card.

He was so delighted to find "You could have earned 200 points", but as they pointed out, you're not earning the discount; so you can't redeem it.

 

[platypus]

I try not to shop in Tescos, the quality of their meat, fruit and vegetable, and fresh produce is appalling.

Also get irritated by people constantly asking me to sign up for a club card. And the automated tills..wonder if my post is still around..

Hehe, found it;

Those self service checkouts irritate the **** out of me.

That self righteous voice, 'Please place the item in the bagging area', or 'Approval needed', it plagues my every waking moment. Every time I think of automation I think back to Tesco's self service aisles. The waiting whilst the facile queues of subservient peons slowly dawdle through, the moment approaching when it will be my turn to be tortured by that dull, flat voice requesting me to weigh in my onions. The moment when I scan a new bread knife or bottle of beer, and have to wait for the usual gargoyle that mans the checkouts with those unnerving, unwavering eyes that follow you everywhere as he slowly makes his way over to scan his employee card; looking at you as if you've killed his children for making him move the three metres to approve your purchase. The moment when I put my credit card into the pin machine and have to wait what seems an endless 30 seconds for the agonising voice to tell me that it has been accepted; all the while trying to avoid eye contact with the social degenerate that is standing too close to me waiting for his turn on the automated merry-go-round. When finally my payment has been authorised and I can collect my shopping, I again realise that I must wait further, trying to claim my receipt from the clutches of that automated behemoth, to be told 'Thankyou for shopping at Tesco's'. DIE YOU STUPID *****.

I don't shop at Tesco's very often

 

[iviv]

Tesco also supply sports equipment to schools. To get a pack of three tennis balls, you have to spend £1,140 at their stores. For a pair of inflatable armbands for swimming, you have to splash out £840. A football, £2,200. For a trampoline, you'd have to spend nearly a million quid!

Illustrates what a joke the scheme is.

Not as much of a joke as you make out. Sure, they cost a ton points wise, but people shop there anyway. If did a weekly shop at Tesco, spending £50, thats 5 vouchers. Any the promotion usually lasts a few months. I'm getting the same ammount of food as I normally get, maybe a little bit extra to get another voucher, and the school gets free stuff. While the vouchers are worth next to nothing, remember that nobody is actually shelling out. You buy your food and eat it as normal, school gets free stuff for it.