The M and S Sparks card?

I haven't gained anything from mine 😂

I always thought this too.. stopped using it!

Does anyone remember those vouchers a few years ago, £10 or £15 off a shop? I used to get them weekly. They were fantastic!

I agree about big spendings generate more rewards. Not sure about tailored offers … but every little helps and you are right - anything free is a winner.

Maybe it's a ploy so that people think it could be them when actually it is one large shop a year. The rest are tuppence ha'penny.

My latest voucher is 15% off everything except gift cards , gifts,flowers and food .
I always use it and l am very happy with it.

You have to load the offers on. Pain in the bum and who has time!

I shop in M&S regularly but in small amounts so my freebies/ vouchers are small and rare but as I only buy there specific things even a small discount counts.
They give a lot of useless discounts e.g for men suits/ties or ready prepared meals but the nice practical ones for berries, chocolates and shortbreads do happen. 😉

Do you buy a lot in there? I tend to find the more you buy, the more they send you. I base this on being a huge marks and Spencer shopper and I get lots of discounts and offers....and a couple of years ago, I practically stopped buying from there altogether (between jobs, no money, trying to be strong ) and got not a single email/reward/discount from there.

I think the offers are very tailored to what you buy....I buy my fruit and veg there weekly so get a lot of food offers....I'm very partial to the homeware and women's sections so receive offers for there too. I don't buy any mens or kids so never receive anything from those. I have noticed if I buy say jeans, I'll get a "reward" for jeans as my next one....if I buy any homeware, bedding is a bit of my downfall, I do get money almost straight away off more bedding. I'm learning not to try say 3 pairs of jeans on and buy them all as I know if I buy one, I'll get a sparks reward off more jeans. I don't know for sure if it works like this, but it seems to be this way for me! If I have a break from spending there, I almost always get a 10 or 20 per cent off everything reward.

I do regularly get free biscuits/fruit/percy pigs/bread and I'm not going to sniff at that. Anything free is a winner!

I think their advent calendar thing is a bit rubbish. They seem to stop all rewards and I never get anything good on the advent. Nothing going out of my way to pick up. I remember a couple of years ago, a lot of my colleagues even got free vodka, alcohol etc and I got nothing like that!

Edited to say I've just looked at mine
15% off shellfish
20% off throws
10% off fruit and veg
10 % off cleaning and laundry
Free percy pigs
10% off cut flowers and plants
£1 off shopping if £6 spent on sweets.

I regularly get 15-20% off clothes, shoes and beauty. Got some lovely stuff in the 12 days of Christmas last year and usually get a few pounds off when I do my food shopping too. I think it's ok!

I wasn't sure whether to burst out in song in reply ...."Absolutely nothing, uh ahh" 🎶

This post has been useful as a reminder to check for, the seemingly useless, offers!

Same with Matalan card. Does absolutely nothing.

Nectar, Asda, boots and Tesco are the best I've used.

This is my take on it and I posted up thread about it. Don’t think it matters whether you spend £200 a week there or 30p, I think the Sparks “offers” are the same for everyone.

No offers for me. They shut our local branch in the summer so fewer opportunities to shop in person.

We spend many ££££ in M&S, clothing and weekly food shop. When it started we had good offers, 20% of menswear etc.

Now it's really specific like 10% off womens knickers with several exclusions, the offers are also few and far between.

I got 20% off clothes recently. You really need the app then you can load offers onto it. I also got free chocolate, bread, toiletries last Christmas via the app.

Usually 10% off poultry, ready meals, fish etc plus 4-6 non food discounts, never menswear for some reason these days even though that probably our biggest non food spend. Today its 20% off throws, very random!

Iceland is very good if you are over 60 on a Tuesday.
I like the digital receipt but even 12 days of Christmas is poor. Only once was a freebie and they all went before I could get to shop.
Like the coffee only 6 stamps for a free drink.

Worst store card ever as it actively annoys me!

I’ve got vouchers for 10% off bread and cheese - not really too much of an incentive to shop at good old Markies is it.

@StillCreatingAName to be fair, my neighbour won the free shop with about £200 of champagne, it was brilliant!

I thought it was just me! Totally with you, OP.

I never really see any benefit, I just got 20% off pants when I'd just bought pants.

Sparks is rubbish. I buy food from M&S two or three times a week and the only benefits I've had this year are: two freebies at the beginning of the year (I think a free pastry from the bakery and a free loaf of bread); then last week I had a £1 off £5 spend on butter, which worked on some yellow sticker butter I bought. Perhaps one or two other 50p or £1 off vouchers that I might have forgotten about, but that's literally it. My dad had something a few months ago which was something like: spend £70 in the M&S food hall this month and get a £7 money off voucher - but I didn't get that offer.

Nectar is so much better. I moved house and don't have a Sainsbury's near me any more, but I used to earn more in Nectar rewards in a week than I did in Sparks rewards in a year.

The only reason I bother scanning my Sparks card is the tiny chance to win a free shop. But I think perhaps I'd be better off not scanning it at all - I think they might send me better rewards if I did that.

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I got Percy pigs last year.