Nectar points are useless!

After spending between £20-30 a week at sainsburys over the last half a year, ive clocked up something like 1,200 (thats probably like £550 worth as you get 2 points per pound plus extra points for using bags) So I thought £550 worth of money that i have spent at sainsburys would get me something, maybe a £30 voucher somewhere or something. But it hardley even gets me about £5 in store (about 1% of what i have spent) or something like a cinema voucher.

With tesco club card points, every 1000 points gets you £40 of rewards to user somewhere.

I know it's a loyalty scheme and I should appreciate what they do give me, but i think thats pretty stingy considering the amount you get back for what you spend.

What does everyone else think?

Reply 1

Dynamitri

14

I think I never joined those "loyalty schemes" as tbh I cba to.

Reply 2

cognito_08

16

Nectar points: 500 points = £2.50 at Sainsbury's.

But you don't pay for a Nectar, and if you're going to Sainsbury's anyway it's just some free stuff surely?

Reply 3

Davidosh

14

Yeah Tesco is the only decent loyalty scheme out there I think that Game one is dreadful £2.50 off for every £100 you spend

Reply 4

apassingfeeling

17

Tesco's is definitely the best out of the supermarket cards. Do Asda do one...?

(I love my Boots card :love:

)

Reply 5

Persipan

17

Don't you get 1p per pound on a Tesco Clubcard, too, though? Which makes it basically the same.

Reply 6

Vokes

10

Most loyalty cards are 1% or less so this sounds about right.
Tesco's is under 1% last time I checked although they do more arranged deals (£20 off Thorpe park etc) which sound like you get more than you actually do as you can pickup deals like this all over the place from the net, leaflets, their website etc.

The only exception I know is Boots which has a great loyalty reward scheme.

Edit: Just checked and;

Tesco = 1%

Nectar = 1%

Boots = 4% (!!!)

So no difference at all in the supermarkets.

Reply 7

The West Wing

18

Persipan

Don't you get 1p per pound on a Tesco Clubcard, too, though? Which makes it basically the same.

You can swap them for 4x vouchers to use on essentially anything. From next month onwards this includes store shopping and mobile top ups. This makes it 400% better value than Nectar

Reply 8

munn

16

i've spent over £200 worth in nectar rewards over the past 3 years or so because my parents do their shopping at sainburys to take advantage of my staff discount

if you spend over £150 in a single shop then you get 6 points per pound, or at least 900 points, so if you spent £166 you get 1000 points which is a fiver back, or 3% which is pretty good really.

Reply 9

No Future

17

yes, it is pretty stingy.

better than nothing though...

Reply 10

Lell

16

The vouchers you get suck. I got some which were like "spent £100 in one go and get 50 nectar points!!!"...yeah I shop for myself

Reply 11

qwerty27

OP

2

Persipan

Don't you get 1p per pound on a Tesco Clubcard, too, though? Which makes it basically the same.

you get 1p to spend instore, but its 4p to spend on outside rewards like eating out, holidays, gift vouchers etc.

Reply 12

Melana

14

I get loads of nectar points through signing up my gas and electricity bill, and I go through it to buy anything on amazon/play and I've got about 3000 for not really trying. Sainsbury's isn't the best way to get them tbf. It's better than nothing, I guess.

Reply 13

Officer Dibble

11

cognito_08

Nectar points: 500 points = £2.50 at Sainsbury's.

But you don't pay for a Nectar, and if you're going to Sainsbury's/Debenhams anyway it's just some free stuff surely?

Debenhams stopped taking nectar cards over a year ago. :p:

Clubcard and Boots advantage card FTW.

Reply 14

Ilora-Danon

3

Me and my mum planned a whole day 2 day trip to London on tesco clubcard vouchers - we stayed in a hotel overnight in Tower Hill payed for entirely on Tesco vouchers, then had a free dinner in Bella Italia (went to the theatre and shopping, but tesco didn't pay for that). We've also had about £200 worth of food at Bella Italia in the past 6 months.

Nectar seems to be worth nothing in comparison, especially since they stopped doing Nectar points in Debenhams.

Reply 15

BurningSnowman

1

Davidosh

Yeah Tesco is the only decent loyalty scheme out there I think that Game one is dreadful £2.50 off for every £100 you spend

Except that as above, unless you actually want and have enough points for "deals", Tesco is only 1% i.e. far less than Game.

That said, sane people might actually want to shop at Tesco whereas I believe Game build their stores with bricks of solidified mark-up and granny-magnets.

Reply 16

EpilepticRabbit

3

10 years late, but still. Got something on Ebay for £300 and got £1.50 worth of nectar points. nice.

Reply 17

TheMcSame

19

Original post by EpilepticRabbit

10 years late, but still. Got something on Ebay for £300 and got £1.50 worth of nectar points. nice.

Yeah... I think the problem with these loyalty schemes is that people expect too much for them. Stores aren't going to give you huge discounts for shopping with them for a little bit. They should just be used as something you 'passively' collect to save bits of money along the way, or perhaps something like Avios where you just passively collect through Shell's loyalty malarky, or using an Avois/BA credit card or something and let it build up over time, after about a year I've got about 8000 Avois, which I think would only cover me for a flight to somewhere in Europe. But still, in the future, it could help with a making a holiday a lot cheaper, and that's the sort of mindest you need when dealing with these things. If you regularly use the services that the loyalty program covers, there's no reason why you shouldn't be part of it (providing it's free that is), even if it only saves you say... £10 a year. It's still a bit of money that hasn't left your bank account. It all adds up in the long run.