... to be FED UP to my back teeth with store cards and loyalty points?

[PacificDogwood]

Just reduce your fecking prices FGS!

I received a Boots delivery yesterday. Nothing fancy, some emollients for DS2's skin, some deodorant, some shampoo, some san-pro - you get the picture.

£89 .
But apparently I "saved' £43 by taken them up on their '2 for 3' offer on some things and I 'earned' 1200 points.

We get buttered up by good sounding rhetoric of what we've 'saved' and what a 'bonus' the points are. When really all we're doing is do their market research for them.

TESCO is just as bad - I never spend vouchers in time (I clearly don't shop enough...).

I have a wallet full of store cards, yet when I am in a store I rarely have the one I 'need'. I don't shop anywhere consistently enough to every take advantage of their 'offers' (yep, I am a shop whore, but feel a deep and meaningful relationship with Lidl's coming on - what you see is what you get).

Big Shops, stopp your stupid schemes and Reduce Your Overheads, then pass those saving on to us!!

That's what they want you to think .

Then again, maybe you are and maybe you do.
But the net win is still with them.

But if you were going to spend the money with them anyway it isn't an issue.

We have no supermarket other than Tesco for 20 miles.
I do all my shopping and buy my petrol from them.
If in the process they chuck £300 of vouchers (£600 once doubled) my way then it is a bonus for me.
We treat it like a very effective Christmas club.

Pacific If you really don't like store cards and believe you aren't winning them feel free to send vouchers to me

cantheyseeme yes I buy everything using it, petrol, Tesco Direct etc.
I got my ds a Xbox game for £10 instead of £40 by using Clubcard vouchers.

SP [facepalm] Nope .
I don't hate them enough.
I hate the principle lots.

Why not, on principle, boycott spending vouchers and just send them to me. Remember you aren't winning anyway

I always give the points to the person behind me, that way they can get my advertising to, they always say thank you. I hand the money off voucher to the person behind as w ell, as they go out of date so quickly at least then they get used.

I go to lidl and aldi where it is just cheaper

SP, because you will then spend them which makes if a crap* boycott .

Oh flip, epic ** fail

I have a Tesco club card but I don't have any brand loyalty.
I flit round the shops. I do use a tesco credit card and pay everything off.

By doing this I had some vouchers through that have paid for out half term euro shuttle for the ski trip.
Every little helps!

Im gonna look into getting one if thers no catches skinny

But on principle you will know you haven't spent them.

I never spend enough to make a large amount. I tend to.forget I have the card or go elsewhere .

Decaffwithcream, it only takes fifteen purchases to get a free drink, so buy a twenty pence newspaper and that counts. I go and buy a drink and pay, then pay for dds drink, then remember we wanted ginger bicycles so that by paying for each item separately it counts. If you order three items and pay together it only counts as one purchase

ginger bicycles

Ive spent no where near that much. Im winning because I know how best to use my card.
This is exactly the point which so many people on this thread seem to be missing. The 'loyalty cards' work if you use them to your advantage. I shop in Tesco anyway so may as well get the points, I also collect them through TopCashBack and Living Social so it would be easy to get £200 worth of vouchers. I got that a couple of years ago just because I went through them when I renewed my mobile phone contract. If you are going to spend the money anyway then why not get something back?
As for Boots, I agree that some items are expensive but not everything. The Huggies pure wipes are 99p at the moment, I normally get them in Home Bargains for 99p but if I can get them in Boots for the same price and get 10 points in the £1 then why wouldn't I? Add that to the £12 worth of points for a £50 spend (and the coupon I had for another 500 points) I get 51 packs of huggies for 55p each. That will keep me going till next Christmas!

I like the waitrose card - free coffee just for waving the card and a paper if you spend over a fiver, which I would be doing anyway. Plus some products get 10% taken off on special offer for card holders, which seem to change every week or three. And there probably are points if I wanted to do something with them but haven't. But at least you're getting something tangible immediately.

I have a loyalty card at the reptile store. If I buy a certain number of frozen mice, I get some free.

I don't have any other loyalty cards though.

I only use Co-Op who give you money off twice a year. In Sainsburys they always ask how many bags you have re-used assuming you have a card (I realise they have a set speach) and seem surprised when you dont have one

Only have the waitrose and boots one.

But on principle I hate loyalty cards.

So ironically, the only shop I am "loyal" to is lidl

I think it annoys me that I have to shop around so hard, I have to factor in points and special extra points coupons and BOGOFs before I make my choice and then remember reward cards & coupons when I actually go to pay to make any of it worthwhile. yet if I don't do those things I end up subsidising those who do .

I don't have mental space for this shit. Give me a cheap price when I walk thru the door & get me out again. I feel like they're trying fiercely to manipulate me. How can that not be annoying to rest of you? Maybe not if I want to become obsessive at beating them at their own game; well I don't want to play the game at all.

it's like when I see a BOGOF; my first thought is "Do I really want 2?" The answer is almost always NO so I buy a completely different product because I feel like I'm paying over the odds otherwise. Maybe the people who are alienated like me are in the minority; I think most people just refuse to engage with it all.

@ loyalty card at reptile store, hidden!

I don't have mental space for this shit. Give me a cheap price when I walk thru the door & get me out again

That. Exactly that.

And don't pretend you are doing the General Public a favour.

I've been saving boots points or years. I had over £400 when I got pregnant do used all of the points on baby stuff.

I love them.

Don't forget to put your Boots card in the little machine in store for 'todays offers'
I got £5 off a £20 spend last week.

You can use your nectar card points in Argos & get points with British Gas.

Thanks to Tesco double up points - I have a lovely Kenwood kettle & toaster now