Tesco says Every Little Helps - but it doesnt.

[lynbrown]

If you pop into Tesco for an item less than a £1, you dont earn any points. I often nip in for my newspaper or a choc bar but if its less than £1, they dont take my Tesco card. So, Every Little Doesnt help! Anyone else noticed that?

[boxtops]

I can't honestly say that I have ever spent less than £1 in Tesco - so no, sorry!

[mike11111]

Same with Sainsburys. Can't use a Nectar Card for purchases under £1

[Buenchico]

That's one of the (few) advantages of using the good old-fashioned Co-op. (At least around here, anyway).

There system adds up your TOTAL spending (even if was only a few pence at a time) during the relevant period and then calculates the relevant dividend payout. Further, Tesco normally gives 1 point (= 1p) per pound spent, whereas our local Co-op's dividend is 2.5p per pound spent.

Chris

[ELVIS68]

It`s a point for every pound spent, you don`t expect them to tally up your 70p`s do you?

I`ve noticed they`ve stopped their policy of opening up other tills to stop long queues

[Buenchico]

PS(1): Sainsbury's Nectar points only work out at 0.5p per pound spent.

PS(2): I do know how to spell 'their' correctly; I'm just too tired and too p|ssed to do so ;-)

[ELVIS68]

MarkRae will sniff that one out

[Buenchico]

Elvis sneaked in between my posts!

There's no reason why Tesco can't do what the Co-op does, and total up all purchases during the relevant period. It only requires a simple tweak to their software.

[ELVIS68]

You can`t really knock Tesco for their clubcard points though, I fill the work vans and two lorries up in Tesco garages, £90 for the vans and £180 for the lorries and the vouchers they send out are worth it, whether they are spent in store or used elsewhere when they are 4 times the value

[Buenchico]

I wasn't knocking them, Elvis.

Up until recently (when they decide to get rid of 'relief' drivers) I was working most of the time, for a Ford main dealership, delivering car parts. I found it really frustrating that the company's fuel cards were only valid at Shell filling stations, so that I couldn't get my Tesco Clubcard points :-(

[lilsecret]

Tesco should eally say
eVERY LITTLE HELPs

[ELVIS68]

Chris, think of all the England world cup stickers you get with Shell, or glass tumblers lol

[imhotep]

I can remember my mum saying that she used to collect Co-op green stamps or something like that.Crikey, those were the good ol' days ehh!

[Buenchico]

LOL @ Lilsecret ;-)

Elvis:
Shell does actually give free fuel vouchers, based upon points collected. It works out at 0.5p of free fuel per 1 litre purchased, with the rate doubling for each litre purchased after the first 200 in any month.

That system means that, as fuel prices rise, the value of the card drops. e.g. it doesn't matter whether 1 litre of fuel costs £1 or £2, you still only get 0.5p of free fuel back (unless you've already bought more than 200 litres in that month).

I'd much rather have been able to go to Tesco!

[ELVIS68]

lol imhotep, my nan used to collect those stamps, she had a book with about 50 pages that you had to fill up with tiny blue stamps.

I think you meant the green sheild stamps

[imhotep]

Aahh of course, the green shield stamps.Thanks ELVIS!!
My memory slipped there mate......

I fill up at Tesco too Chris.....amassed a fair number of points now!! :)

[mike11111]

When the Coop gave up the dividend they introduced blue stamps as mentioned (worth 0.3p each). I also remember Green Shield stamps from the 70s and early 80s. There used to be a store in Newcastle which dealt solely with the redemption of Green Shield stamps plus cigarette coupons from Embassy, Player's No 6 and Kensitas. Remember them?

[Buenchico]

Either Imhotep or Imhotep's Mum seems to have got a little confused somewhere along the line.

Cooperative Society's used to give 'dividends', based upon the total spend during a specified period. Many Societies switched to using dividend stamps, which generally paid a far lower percentage because of the administrative costs. However they were completely separate from Green Shield stamps, which were issued by garages and convenience stores (among others). Their catalogue offered apparently wonderful gifts which could be obtained just by collecting the stamps. The problem was that you needed to spend a lot of money to get the necessary number of stamps.

For example, back in the 1960s, spending £32 (which was more than 5 times my first basic weekly wage in 1968) could get you a brush and comb set!!!
http://www.retrowow.c...en_Shield_Stamps.html

[imhotep]

Oh well, Chris. You seem to know more on this matter than myself mate.
I just had this thought in my head about my mum saving some type of stamps that she used to do many years ago.So, sorry if I was a bit on the vague side of things!!

Anyway, I'm feeling a tad tired now. So I will bid you all a fond farewell.
Night,night!!!
In the meantime take a look at this.....it's quite titillating!!!! Ahem....lol ;)

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[sophie_1003]

I always assumed they did this to make you spend more money so say if you were buying something for 98p you would quickly grab something else so you could get the extra points, maybe that's just me being cynical though?