Saturday 18 July 2015

Loyalty cards

I wonder if there is anyone in the UK who does not have some sort of "loyalty" card?  I seem to have a purse full but there are two which I find quite good.

The first is Boots advantage card.  Their points give me the equivalent of 4p in the pound for every purchase there and as I am a wrinkly this rises to 10p in the pound when I buy Boots own brand stuff, which is very handy when buying Number 7.  They also give extra discounts on spectacles but I find it cheaper to shop elsewhere for those.


My main use of a loyalty card has to be Tesco though.  I do most of my shopping on line these days so get my points credited automatically and I also get points on gas and electricity from EOn.  There is one other wheeze if you shop in store though.  Look at the bottom of your till receipt and you will find a chance to win a gift card.  Even better you can collect 25 extra points just for filling in a short customer satisfaction survey.  I nipped in the other day and spent £10.24 on flower, a newspaper and some cleaning materials so earning 10 points (plus an extra for using my own bag) but I still get my 25 points for doing the survey.  Not bad, especially as I shall be exchanging my points for vouchers for Prezzo or Pizza Express boosting those 25 points to £1.

And I've been enjoying fuel save too but that ends in August.

6 comments:

  1. I will miss the fuel saving, it does rankle that they have lowered the price of diesel to just 1p more than unleaded, even though it used to be around 15p more.

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  2. We have
    boots products here, too, but I have never tried them.

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    1. Boots are the major high street pharmacy here and their own brand products are usually very good quality.

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  3. I swapped to 'Ebico' for leccy & gas, they don't do 'Standing Charges'..
    =o)

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  4. We use a Nectar card but seem to get very little back these days. The Boots card seems the best of all. Mind you, I hate that they are used to track our purchases!

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    1. I've got a Nectar card but use it so infrequently that whenever I do use it I have to go to Customer (lack of) Service to get it reactivated!

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