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To think accumulating Nectar points is bloody hard?

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Wishuponaleprechaun · 19/10/2019 14:06

I fill up £100 a week in fuel at Sainsbury’s, plus do my weekly shop there and spend on average £70 a week.

So that’s £170 a week on average I’m spending at Sainsbury’s each week. I use my nectar card for both.

Every year when it’s getting towards Christmas I eagerly look at my Nectar app to see how many points I’ve accumulated over the year...just looked ....£18. Is that it?!

Every year I can’t seem to accumulate more than £20 quid or so, yet I only shop in Boots probably once a month, spending about £30-40 and by the year end I have enough to buy myself a bottle of Chanel perfume (which is always my Christmas present to myself each year Grin )

AIBU to think Nectar points are stingy?

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OnlyFoolsnMothers · 19/10/2019 15:07

Not worth it- shop at Aldi.

DragonontheWagon · 19/10/2019 15:08

If you use eBay then link both accounts.

If you buy from Argos then go through the Nectar website and buy rather than directly on the Argos website or walk in off the street.

Get the new Nectar app on your phone and upload all weekly offers.

Make sure you use all the double/triple bonus points that come out of the till.

If you do online shopping then always go through the nectar website to check if you can collect points through partners.

We don't even do our weekly shop in Sainsburys but we collect at least £50 a year just by doing the above.

AnchorDownDeepBreath · 19/10/2019 15:09

Crikey, I'd check that your account is working okay - I spend nowhere near that and have £96 at the moment. I am pretty good at using the vouchers, though.

PrincessPain · 19/10/2019 15:13

I make about a fiver every other month solely through my Ebay purchases 😳
I then spend them on more Ebay purchases.

Longdistance · 19/10/2019 15:21

I’ve got their credit card and so does dh. That bumps up the points a lot.
I use their bonus vouchers and now they have the updated Nectar app I load my vouchers electronically, it’s really bumped it up.
I save mine for Crimbo too at this time of year and I’ll probably have £40 ish pounds on it by then. The beginning part of the year I save up for school uniform as I like their uniforms.
I am a loyalty card queen. I have a Tesco one (rubbish for me as there aren’t many Tesco’s in our area).
Boots - fab
Superdrug - fab
Coop - good
M&S - I cannot get used to, but the load offers
The works - great to save up for Crimbo
Beefeater - can save up for a bottle of wine easily.

Oblomov19 · 19/10/2019 15:22

Yes rubbish.
But I don't understand how you've got so little. I save mine all year and use them on the Christmas shop. I get it for free, £80-£100. So how you've only got £18 seems odd.

Goawayquickly · 19/10/2019 15:22

Make sure to use the coupon offers and keep an eye out for scan and win which is normally around November I think (if they are doing it this year) I’ve won around £4O each year in extra points then taken advantage of double up promotions.

Original poster
Wishuponaleprechaun · 19/10/2019 15:24

Hmmm, no I must admit, I kept coupon offers in the post once a month but always bin them as they seem like such a faff so perhaps that’s where I’ve been going wrong BlushBlush

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Wishuponaleprechaun · 19/10/2019 15:25

I get.* not kept

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Meckity1 · 19/10/2019 15:43

I get most of my nectar points by shopping on eBay.

user1497207191 · 19/10/2019 15:44

What is the alternative. Surely £18 is better than the big fat zilch you'd get if you didn't bother. Unless you can find a better reward scheme, of course it's worth it - it doesn't cost you anything and you only have to get the card out and swipe it - hardly any effort.

But as others say, it's the vouchers and offers that make it mount up to bigger amounts. I always try to use the double/treble point vouchers and the other special offers you can get. Using the card is also a gateway to the Sainsbury money off coupons which are based on your purchase history (which they wouldn't know if you didn't use your card!).

RaynaJaymes · 19/10/2019 15:48

£18 def doesn’t seem right.
I’ve got £57 this year from roughly spending £80 a week on food shop

Also been hacked this year. They refunded my points but took a while. Best not happen again before the double up

maddening · 19/10/2019 15:48

We normally have about £80 by Xmas and use it for our Xmas shop, don't get as much petrol as you, but try to use the point booster vouchers, though I think that it should all be via app and you should not have to remember the piece of paper - the point boost should happen automatically (as they are linked to only your card anyway)

londonrach · 19/10/2019 16:02

Dont bother with them as sainsburys is expensive to shop at and the points worth nothing as take too long to get them

jane1956 · 19/10/2019 16:02

as said use the app or at least check on line and save things you will buy to get extra points also the "double up " is coming soon which will help multiply your points

MissKittyCat · 19/10/2019 16:08

As other people have said, you need to make use of bonus points. The ones available through the app are good. With this week's shop I got 54 ordinary points and 350 bonus points.

goingtotown · 19/10/2019 16:09

Wishuponaleprechaun
£100 on fuel is approximately 78 litres that would be 78 points.
£70 on shopping is 70 points.
1000 points is £5

So if you’re not using your double, 3x or 5x vouchers or extra points on specific items, there’s not a problem with your card.

MrsJBaptiste · 19/10/2019 16:20

I don't regularly go to Sainsburys but do try and use all the double/treble points vouchers I get. I've now accumulated £43 since January so with the double-up promotion, should have £90 for wine for Xmas 👍

VictoriaBun · 19/10/2019 16:24

In all the years of Sainsbury's doing Nectar points we have redeemed them only once ! It was 5 years ago and was for about £700 worth.
So we haven't done it since and currently have just under £510 . So all in all maybe it isn't really worth it.

gingercat02 · 19/10/2019 16:24

I have £61 on mine and spend it all at Christmas so that's in the last 10 months. I go to Sainsburys A LOT

Orangecake123 · 19/10/2019 16:25

My father got £72 in one year. Which I spent happily.

They often do double point vouchers.

LuckyAmy1986 · 19/10/2019 16:27

We always have around £60 come Christmas spend way less than you - Doesn’t sound right?

Ilnome · 19/10/2019 16:28

The double points promotion is coming up - I don’t know of its new nectar only though (just over £20 in points and ready for this event!)

Serin · 19/10/2019 16:30

I cant be bothered with nectar. The Waitrose offers are so much better.
I divide our shopping between Waitrose and Aldi.

DisgruntledGuineaPig · 19/10/2019 16:34

Apparently you get 1 point per £1 spent, and a point is worth 0.5p, so 1000 points is worth £5.

If you are spending £170 a week, that's 8840 points, which is worth £44.20.

Are you not properly claiming it for the petrol? Because £70 a week would give you around £18 in points.

Use the extra points vouchers, but yes, it's not a great scheme. Only worth using it if you are going to that supermarket anyway, not deliberately to collect the points.