Tesco fricking Club Card / two tier pricing

I don't have apple and I don't think my phone has a wallet

I haven't even got a mobile phone, of any kind, let alone a smart phone, but I have an actual Tesco Clubcard in my purse along with my debit card, so it's no problem to get both out of my purse when I pay. It's no trouble whatsoever and worth it for the discount.

Tesco are a disgrace! Charging higher prices (sometimes stupidly higher prices,) for something, if you don't have their clubcard.

Morrisons do it too, but their prices without a storecard aren't quite as bad - it's still about 15-20% higher without one though. I do actually do some shopping at Morrisons, but hell will freeze over before I get a Morrisons 'More Card.' Not only do I not want my data harvested, but also, I don't appreciated being coerced and bullied into getting their storecard.

Tesco are far worse. Charging a little more if you don't have a storecard is fine (like 5%) but some things in TESCO, are 50% - 60% more, and some have an even higher % than that added on. A few things are double - or more than double, without a storecard. Nasty. And for this reason, I rarely go in there. I spend about £70 a year in Tesco.

As a few posters have said, you don't pay LESS if you have a storecard, you pay much more if you don't have one. At one time, supermarkets would let you collect points for every purchase, and then when you'd got so many, you got vouchers for money off.

Now, they are practicing underhand tactics, and making you pay more - a LOT more - if you don't have a clubcard.

Why are they all so desperate for people to have one? Stores trying to force you into clubcards is one of the reasons I do 75%-80% of my shopping at Aldi and Lidl.

Someone put on Twitter the other day that Tesco are basically bullying people into having their clubcard at this point, and they're right.

Ours is awful too
I need to open my 10% off coupon before I get there and use the actual card to activate the handset so I don't need to come out of it.

Only had the issue since they updated the app mind you.

For teenagers, why do they not have copies of their parent’s cards? Ridiculously easy solution.

for travelers, I have found that when I am traveling if I just respond to the request for my card with a polite statement that I am not local, the clerk will inevitably pull a card out of the till and scan it. Perhaps it’s because I’m being honest and not just trying to avoid getting a card that it seems to work, but it does. I could take the time to just get a card then and there, but it’s just not worth the hassle to only use once.

the cards make it easier for companies to scrape our information. With data protection provisions in place they do have some challenges without the cards, but they would still manage. I’m not sure what day in history we passed the privacy threshold, but it’s gone and we aren’t going back unless society collapses. Fighting it is pointless.

Why not? How do you think it negatively affects you?

*I don't think it divides people 50/50 in rl.

It is only ever on mn that such small non-issues become magnified imo*

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I don't think it divides people 50/50 in rl.

It is only ever on mn that such small non-issues become magnified imo.

I ditched my Clubcard many years ago, and won't get one again. I definitely don't want any supermarket monitoring my spending etc.

Surely the days of rummaging around the bottom of a crusty handbag looking for loyalty cards has passed. The vast majority of us have these things on our phones, it couldn't be easier or quicker!

We do most of our shopping at sainsburys, always have my nectar card in my purse so no worries about forgetting it. We save our points for the big Christmas shop and the nectar prices are just a bonus in my eyes. I don't get that it's such a hassle, it's a small saving and you can earn money/points back by having the store cards. I'd rather save/get back a little than nothing.

"Doesn't the fact it works for them as a business model while dividing people 50:50 and putting a lot of people off their stores make you stop and 🤔 about whether you're really getting a good deal?"

I never assume I'm getting a good deal but I have a choice of four supermarkets in my town. My weekly shop, using a clubcard, is cheaper than at two of the others. One of the supermarkets is cheaper but I hate the experience of shopping there, the lack of choice and the quality of the food.

Doesn't the fact it works for them as a business model while dividing people 50:50 and putting a lot of people off their stores make you stop and 🤔 about whether you're really getting a good deal?

Nope because it's a complete non issue for me

Just get it on your phone? It's really not difficult.

You shouldn't need a signal to open the app and see your clubcard. I've just put my phone in airplane mode so that there would be no signal. It opened the app, there was a red "No internet" warning, but I could still click on the clubcard button and see the qr code.

That’s exactly why I don’t like it. Get a clubcard and we won’t rip you off. No thanks, I’ll go elsewhere.

It is amazing how many people do fall for it and think they are getting great deals
though.

You know Lidl offers discounts with their loyalty card right?

I think Tesco is fantastic.

The points alone are worth having a tesco Clubcard.

I’d be buying the shopping anyway, so I might as well get money off and earn points at the same time.

It's not a "massive palaver" . I take my Clubcard out along with my Debit card at the till. It takes seconds and saves me a lot of money.

I'm pleased if it stops people going though as I prefer shorter queues.

I guess it must work for them, as a business model, or they'd have stopped doing it by now.

I worked in retail while studying and the store I worked in did this too. This was in the UK.

I hate the two tier pricing with loyalty cards. My DH forgot to scan his nectar card and ended up paying £7 extra for an item recently. The item is the cheaper price in other stores which makes it even more annoying.

I agree, I hate it. The answer is to avoid Tesco and any of the other supermarkets that do this. Easier said than done though!

They've gone from paying you about £2 a year in points to gather your personal data (very bad deal) to massively penalising you if you won't agree to that deal by using their card. Absolute sharks.

I don't see how it's a con when both prices are clearly displayed.

People keep referring to the 'elderly and vulnerable with no smartphone or internet access' but you don't need either to look at a price and hand over your physical discount card.

It's not a con if it's really simple to understand, optional and open to everyone.

I have tried multiple times to add it to my wallet. Every time clubcard says it's not linked to a card. I call up customer services, they tell me there is no problem.

Not using tescos anymore isn't that much of a bother though. I get 90% of my shopping online and if I haven't got something I either go to the little coop we have nearby, or I just replan the meal.