double up your nectar points.

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The offer is on right now to swap your points for vouchers and then you can shop from monday to Sat I think.
I am getting DS some winter essentials and then using the rest to get some xmas bits. Rubox cube, board game, stocking bits etc. We have £60 to spend which doesn't go as far as it sounds!
Anyone else doing it?

I get quite a few points from eBay shopping and won 2000 points in a 'points giveaway weekend' earlier this year.

Also when buying petrol from BP, so there's lots of other ways to gain points as well as standard shopping in Sainsburys, which I hardly ever do because we have most other supermarkets closer by. The 4000 odd points I have have built up in a year, because I used what I had last November to double up on wine then too.

If you shopped in Sainsburys every week and spent £100, you'd get over 5000 doing that alone, but you need extra on top to get £100+ obviously. Or maybe people haven't spent them for a long time?

At least they don't expire like Tesco vouchers. I've just discovered a bunch of Tesco points that expire at the end of this month, so I need to get my skates on and do something useful with them to avoid losing them.

Never done this before so apologies if this is a stupid question: do I just go to the Customer Service desk with my nectar card, get vouchers and then use them to pay for anything that's listed in that booklet instead of cash?

So can I do an ordinary shop with my card and then pay for the other stuff with vouchers?

Yep, that's exactly it!

I had £103 in points. All accumulated this past year as I cleared my points in the double up this time last year - I start from scratch again every year after double up. Mine are all accumulated from normal weekly shopping and sometimes fuel fill ups. We are a family of 6 though and do probably 90% of our shopping in Sainsbury’s.

I love that we don’t have to specify departments this year - makes it much better.

Delighted with my haul this year:

• side table for the family room
• lamp for the living room
• beautiful big, 3-wick candle (that smells very like one of the white company fragrances)
• iron
• newly released Xbox game
• 2 Blu-rays
• book for DTs
• soft toy swan as a gift
• CD

Paid a grand total of £1.98 for all of that!

Thank you NoWord! I'm going on a spree tomorrow then 😎

Have you all signed up for the 100 points per swipe for 10 swipes up to 16 Dec? 2 swipes per week, 500 bonus if you do all 10.

It's this kind of thing which boosts our total. DH has a linked card so we will get £15 doing this. Go to the app or Nectar website to load to card.

Just used £150 worth of doubled up points. I got some red ad white wine, Prosecco and port. I also got two pullovers and pyjamas. For kids two packs of Lego for Xmas.

We do our weekly shopping at Sainsbury's and petrol too.

I just got all this lot for 50p. Bargain!

My loot, also for 50p!

Not the middle one! Not sure why that posted 😂

I would feel diddled because I paid £2.50 for 4 bottles of wine, but I did get a vair fancy £18 bottle of English Sparkling, 2 Prosecco and a cava and I 'only' had £40 of vouchers after the double up, but seeing as I shop in Sainsbos once every blue moon, it wasn't a bad haul.

Was fucking chaos when I went yesterday though. Lots of staff hanging around doing nothing, but unable to explain where you get your vouchers etc - the one I went to doesn't have a traditional customer service counter, just a dedicated till where they threw a few double up leaflets on the belt. Was meant to be running in to grab the wine on the way to somewhere else, but it took nearly half an hour due to the madness.

I got £80 worth of wine and prosecco, a load of kitchen utensils and some wine glasses with mine today. Still got some left so might go back and look at clothes tomorrow.

That's still a bargain, Barbara! I had seen the £18 English sparkling. I hope it's very tasty!

I went to ours just before closing. It was dead, and I just did a Supermarket Sweep-style raid on the wine aisle. In and out in less than 10 minutes.

Good haul, hiding. 😁

We also have the dedicated till now instead of a proper customer service desk and it's crap, you slways have to wait ages now. At least ten minutes tonight behind people returning things, others taking a trolley load to be scanned to see how many vouchers they needed and then hoping to pay there as well, not great. The proper desk was muchbetter as it had three tills and three staff at busy times.

They've done that in our Sainsbos Barbarao, shut the proper customer services completely, and colonised a till for it!

Maybe it's a Sainsbury's wide thing the 'till as customer service desk'?

Agree that it's crap. People trying to return stuff, others trying to do the double up, there was actually 2 'customer service' tills but only one was operating. I did notice while I was waiting that there seemed to be hardly any tills at all now, must be awful at the weekend.

Planning to save the posh wine for either Christmas Day or New Year's Eve, but there's more chance I'll have to share it on those days, so maybe not. .

And there's usually only one poor sod covering 8 self service and self scan tills. There are noticeably fewer staff in ours now than in the past.

We've never spent any vouchers so we were able to double up the maximum account, £200. Throw in a 'Spend £60 and get £12 off' voucher and I got a Playstation 4 for £37. That's my Christmas shopping for the kids started then!

That's brilliant, Box!

Full amount here too (£200 when doubled up) and still a few quid left on the card to start again for next year. I’m delighted with what I got - more treats this year than in the past, as Christmas shopping is done and there was nothing we really “needed” except for a new iron, which was part of the haul.

The difficult thing for us is that our Sainsbury’s doesn’t have a great selection of a lot of stuff. Since Argos came in store the toy aisle for instance is less than half what it used to be. Our Christmas gift section is also pretty small this year - although a reasonable selection of Harry Potter stuff, if only I hadn’t got DD all the things she wanted already. We have one other store in the city and I went there to check what they had but mostly it’s extra clothes (none of which inspired me) and extra electricals like TVs/DVD players etc.

If anyone is looking for a handheld dyson - our store had one reduced from £220 to £150 so if you had £75 worth of points you could get it for free. I did debate it, but decided to get all the fun stuff instead

Tami - yes, same here, we have an Argos too, but in order to make way for it shelf space for magazines has been drastically reduced, same for books - I normally get a few books with the double up points but they hardly have any now. We're past the age of needing toys so I haven't really noticed what's happened there but the Christmas stuff is as much as ever, in fact they have some gorgeous decorations this year, pity I really don't need any.

Well, this morning I was trying to print something when the ink ran out, so I'm going back to stock up with cartridges later with some of my remaining points, I glanced through clothes yesterday, might have a better look there too. I would have liked to use some for Christmas shopping, which I haven't started yet, but without books there really isn't much I would buy for others (my DCs are young teens and there is virtually nothing clothes-wise in their age range).

We went on Monday evening around 8 and the shop pretty much empty. We got the vouchers straight away and did our shopping in peace :).

I was after Lego but pity that they don't have those big sets.

Well, I spent most of the rest of mine in boring old ink catridges but also got some fairy lights, some scissors and some socks. Very random!