Free shopping at Waitrose! This is amazing....

[CountessDracula]

Was waiting in the queue at waitrose yesterday and the woman in front of me pulled out a huge pile of money off vouchers. I was feeling very crap with my flu and huffed and puffed while the checkout girl scanned these millions of vouchers. I noticed that none of them were for the products the woman was buying, some were for eg £1 off a bottle of wine.

The checkout girl said that as long as they sell the product, they HAVE to accept the vouchers against anything!

I am now going to be avidly collecting vouchers and get lots of free shopping.

Just thought mumsnetters should know!

I suppose you could always try it - stick in a joey one with some legit ones and see what happens - plead ignorance if they hand it back

CD - I reckon it's because the Safeway next door has closed down & the people who shopped there don't realise it's not the done thing to use vouchers at Waitrose!

AFAIK Tesco's don't do this - well my nearest stores don't anyway.

exactly carla. just couldn't face the humiliation of being knocked back. i've heard of people having other supermarkets vouchers accepted - just wouldn't have the brass neck for it, personally!

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Couldnt do it personally At tescos yesterday when we gave huggies vouchers the assistant definately checked voucher and if we had bought two packs.

at tesco's on sat, i had a pampers voucher knocked back because i had bought active fit, not pull ups and the voucher said only pull ups.

Tescos is a proper shop

Milge we must shop at the same tesco

Tescos accepted them! Bloke didn't bat an eyelid. Don't think he even checked the date!

I think it's down to whether the person on the checkout can be bothered to check against what you've purchased in most shops. But they certainly don't have to accept them unless you've actually bought the product. The Waitrose supervisor was wrong. However the companies who give away these vouchers know that there will be a % of misredemption and expect it.

I have been using vouchers for ages - regularly save £20 or more off £60 trolley loads.

IME Asda are the best for accepting vouchers. It's down to the individual store manager but the usual policy is if they stock it they will accept voucher (they can then claim to have accepted voucher correctly as someone will purchase the product and numbers will tally). Normally maximum of 3 of any voucher, 30% of shopping total.

I am an avid voucher snipper from magazines - don't tend to print them off the internet so much as my printer is crap, if the barcode isn't scannable the staff get pissed off! I sign up for lots of crappy email newsletters and surveys so that I get loads of vouchers sent through the post - on average £5 to £10 per week

If you get flyers through your door for supermarkets eg safeway, which have loads of special offers on, if you take it to asda then they will sell you those items at that price, as they have a price promise.

I was a checkout girl at Waitrose many moons ago and when we were trained that said that as the John Lewis Partnership was a bit posh, they didn't like the idea of coupons (you never see a page of Waitrose coupons in the paper eh?) but because their customers want to use their coupons that they would indeed accept any manufacturers' coupons (ie not Tesco or Sains coupons) for your shopping as long as the store sell the item. I can only assume it's still going. Just save all the money offs that you see in the papers and hand them over.

You can definitely do it at tescos - as long as they sell the product they'll accept the voucher but they might not take multiple vouchers for the same thing if you havent actually bought it. They also accept internet coupons on the same basis and Sainsburys vouchers too. They dont accept Tesco coupons for alternative produce though and although its general store policy to do it, the final say so ends with the store manager so they can say no if they think its being abused. There are quite a few thread son this and links to internet coupons on the Money saving expert site (think some of the vouchers may be a bit out of date now though..)

do sainsburys let you use them too?

Hey I'm always being sent pampers vouchers even though I use cloth nappies. That would be really satidfying knowing that pampers are paying for my shopping!

Not convinced I'd have the nerve though.....

Sainsburys do.

snugs - who did you sign up with to get the vouchers?

I always used any vouchers when I went grocery shopping.

I have to brag though. I decided to register with Tesco on-line shopping today (normally go with Asda) and at the end it asked for E vouchers, I remebered that there was a thread about Tesco codes the other day so I found the thread and went on to website that someone suggested and I got £15 off my shopping. I'm so chuffed!

lunavix - to be honest, I signed up for most of them ages ago and still get stuff in the post, can't find my original links. Pampers and Huggies for example - my youngest is nearly 4 but I still get nappy vouchers.

moneysavingsexpert freebies is a good one to look through though. Loads of freebie stuff, a lot of which comes complete with money-off coupons.

I get the weekly email from that site too - a regular supply of the latest freebie links (and invariably more coupons)

I always fill in consumer surveys - online and the ones that come in the post. Guaranteed coupons from those.

Will post more if I can find them

I have done it once at tesco, saved £8 but then they had a crackdown and I had to unpack a whole trolley to prove I had bought a cetain product! Same with Sainsburys, I got one woman who accepted them all, another who didn't. A friend at Sainsburys head office said it was their policy not to. I'll defintoely try waitrose though. I get tons of huggies vouchers I never use.