to think Sainsbury's has gone OTT?

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I ordered my turkey today from my local Sainsbury's. I had to pay £10 deposit and was given one of those plastic gift cards with £10 Deposit Paid for your Sainsbury's Christmas Turkey or somesuch printed on it.

This card has a single use; come 23rd December when I collect the turkey it will be thrown away. A paper till receipt is perfectly adequate for the job. In fact, I was given a till receipt AS WELL as the plastic card. AND there's a printed leaflet with an order form in the back which I'm supposed to keep with the giftcard and the receipt.

AIBU to think there's already enough excess and waste at Christmas without going to these extremes.

GET A GRIP

Easier to lose a paper receipt.

ItalianLady got it in one. How many paper reciepts will people just tip into the bin at the end of the month? A plastic card you keep.

It does seem wasteful, but surely Sainsburys can re-use the cards year after year?

Echo ItalianLady

People would hang on to a turkey receipt two weeks before Christmas. If they bin it, they deserve to be turkeyless. It is OTT

It is very wasteful. Tbh I think all gift cards are wasteful, there was nothing wrong with paper vouchers. And the plastic card shops are always the ones that lecture you about evil plastic bags!

They don't re-use the cards though, I used to work for whsmith and we were told to just throw them away if someone didn't want to keep it.

The reason they changed is because the date of issue can be kept track of and the value is taken off after 2 years, of course the shop still has the balance that you paid when you bought it.

Apparently they were losing too much money from people keeping paper vouchers for years (they never run out) - I don't buy it TBH

You can always give it to a toddler you know as a toy credit card once you've collected the turkey. He or she will be delighted and it will probably get years of use, if it makes you feel better. My DD is four and has a whole purse full of 'credit cards' of various kinds, collected over the last couple of years. She loves sorting them by colour and arranging them in her purse and playing shops with them.

its the turkeys I feel sorry for