Club card type schemes should be banned, period. Having to register as a member at a supermarket just to be able to buy food at its cheapest price is criminal.
Seems weird that I can sign up for a club card on my phone, for free, within like 3 minutes, and I get some pretty hefty discounts on some items.
If your willing to give such discounts on such little effort from me, why mark the price up anyways?
When Sainsburys started this nonsense I just picked up a new nectar card each time. Just left the temporary card and leaflet at the till and walked off.
Now I just shop at Morrisons.
A loyalty scheme is one thing, but the price difference thing really pisses me off, and I’m not going to be part of it.
For anyone who can’t be arsed reading the article: it’s not the scheme itself, it’s that they don’t display the clubcard price £ per gram / ml on the label alongside the full price info.
yeah, I stopped shopping at Tesco because of this shitty practise they brought in. At a time when people are struggling to feed themselves, putting lower prices behind yet another layer is a shitty thing to do.
Unfortunately, most supermarkets decided to be pricks and do the same thing so now it’s just a free for all with your data.
I feel so aggrieved whenever I enter a Tesco and see higher prices for non clubcard holders that I’ve started avoided them completely. I doubt they miss me.
Per 100g prices in supermarkets have always been dodgy I often spot errors.
Ketchup is the worst because they often have weird sizes and the prices make no sense (sometimes a small bottle is a lot cheaper per 100g than a big bottle).
If you rely on them to decide which to buy, you might well be getting ripped off.
I remember seeing in one supermarket a pathetic attempt at a get out clause – they said that the price per 100g was “for illustration only”.
For people who can’t be bothered to read the article, the possibly lawbreaking thing is that on clubcard discounts they don’t display the discounted price per measurement, which is required under the law.
The example given on why it’s important is that Heinz Ketchup is normally 55p/100g. Clubcard discounted it’s 50p/100g, that makes it seem like an absolute bargain aside from on the shelf below there’s another ketchup that is 47p/100g. Customers are only able to compare the original price of those two items, they have to do the maths themselves to see the discounted Heinz is still more expensive.
You might not care, but it’s the law that those prices need to be displayed for that reason.
I hate this clubcard bullshit with their advertising their prices in giant fonts with the real price hidden. Scummy.
I stopped shopping here Purley because I dint want a club card and I don’t think you should have to to get a reasonable deal on your shopping.. basically your taking away the choice
Aldi is the only supermarket truly focused on selling affordable food.
There are two things inevitable in life
Death
And a thread about Clubcard prices sending UK subs into a frothing rage and pretending Clubcard wasn’t a data harvesting scheme before this (always was)
Hmmm…. So the supermarkets profiteer from the manufactured cost of living crisis by jacking up prices across the board and hoarding massive profits, and then simultaneously water down membership benefits. Cool.
I preferred when they knew which booze and cheesecakes I liked and sent me vouchers for those items specifically.
After lockdowns eased I went in there and half the stuff had gone silly prices (£2.50 for a loaf of bread in 2021) but normal price if you remembered to bring your clubcard.
I’ve since moved house and office so no longer near any Tesco but they want to start charging a fee for a clubcard now so they can piss off, I would literally shop anywhere else regardless.
3 for 2 doesn’t get unit pricing on the labels and supermarkets regularly mix unit price with weighted price. This has been a problem for years. It turns into a GCSE maths quiz:
If a bag of 4 oranges costs £2 and there is a promotion for 2 bags at £3.50, is this cheaper than buying loose oranges which are priced at 37.5p per 100g?
Went to Tesco the other day, got some and went through self check out. Total was around £16, the woman attending the self checkout jumped towards us and asked if we had a club card, we didn’t, she then asked the bloke at the next self service if we could use his card. He said yes and scanned his QR code into our till. we then paid £10 instead of £16. We got the discount, he got the points. I cannot fathom what the whole point of the system is.
Haven’t stepped foot in that store after the first time I encountered this two price bullshit on everything.
I’m not getting a loyalty card, I’ll just go somewhere else. There’s nearly always an option and I cannot be fucked with having to remember to carry a card or otherwise dick around with my phone just to get the ‘members’ price. Fuck that.
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Club card type schemes should be banned, period. Having to register as a member at a supermarket just to be able to buy food at its cheapest price is criminal.
Seems weird that I can sign up for a club card on my phone, for free, within like 3 minutes, and I get some pretty hefty discounts on some items.
If your willing to give such discounts on such little effort from me, why mark the price up anyways?
When Sainsburys started this nonsense I just picked up a new nectar card each time. Just left the temporary card and leaflet at the till and walked off.
Now I just shop at Morrisons.
A loyalty scheme is one thing, but the price difference thing really pisses me off, and I’m not going to be part of it.
For anyone who can’t be arsed reading the article: it’s not the scheme itself, it’s that they don’t display the clubcard price £ per gram / ml on the label alongside the full price info.
yeah, I stopped shopping at Tesco because of this shitty practise they brought in. At a time when people are struggling to feed themselves, putting lower prices behind yet another layer is a shitty thing to do.
Unfortunately, most supermarkets decided to be pricks and do the same thing so now it’s just a free for all with your data.
I feel so aggrieved whenever I enter a Tesco and see higher prices for non clubcard holders that I’ve started avoided them completely. I doubt they miss me.
Per 100g prices in supermarkets have always been dodgy I often spot errors.
Ketchup is the worst because they often have weird sizes and the prices make no sense (sometimes a small bottle is a lot cheaper per 100g than a big bottle).
If you rely on them to decide which to buy, you might well be getting ripped off.
I remember seeing in one supermarket a pathetic attempt at a get out clause – they said that the price per 100g was “for illustration only”.
For people who can’t be bothered to read the article, the possibly lawbreaking thing is that on clubcard discounts they don’t display the discounted price per measurement, which is required under the law.
The example given on why it’s important is that Heinz Ketchup is normally 55p/100g. Clubcard discounted it’s 50p/100g, that makes it seem like an absolute bargain aside from on the shelf below there’s another ketchup that is 47p/100g. Customers are only able to compare the original price of those two items, they have to do the maths themselves to see the discounted Heinz is still more expensive.
You might not care, but it’s the law that those prices need to be displayed for that reason.
I hate this clubcard bullshit with their advertising their prices in giant fonts with the real price hidden. Scummy.
I stopped shopping here Purley because I dint want a club card and I don’t think you should have to to get a reasonable deal on your shopping.. basically your taking away the choice
Aldi is the only supermarket truly focused on selling affordable food.
There are two things inevitable in life
Death
And a thread about Clubcard prices sending UK subs into a frothing rage and pretending Clubcard wasn’t a data harvesting scheme before this (always was)
Hmmm…. So the supermarkets profiteer from the manufactured cost of living crisis by jacking up prices across the board and hoarding massive profits, and then simultaneously water down membership benefits. Cool.
I preferred when they knew which booze and cheesecakes I liked and sent me vouchers for those items specifically.
After lockdowns eased I went in there and half the stuff had gone silly prices (£2.50 for a loaf of bread in 2021) but normal price if you remembered to bring your clubcard.
I’ve since moved house and office so no longer near any Tesco but they want to start charging a fee for a clubcard now so they can piss off, I would literally shop anywhere else regardless.
3 for 2 doesn’t get unit pricing on the labels and supermarkets regularly mix unit price with weighted price. This has been a problem for years. It turns into a GCSE maths quiz:
If a bag of 4 oranges costs £2 and there is a promotion for 2 bags at £3.50, is this cheaper than buying loose oranges which are priced at 37.5p per 100g?
Went to Tesco the other day, got some and went through self check out. Total was around £16, the woman attending the self checkout jumped towards us and asked if we had a club card, we didn’t, she then asked the bloke at the next self service if we could use his card. He said yes and scanned his QR code into our till. we then paid £10 instead of £16. We got the discount, he got the points. I cannot fathom what the whole point of the system is.
Haven’t stepped foot in that store after the first time I encountered this two price bullshit on everything.
I’m not getting a loyalty card, I’ll just go somewhere else. There’s nearly always an option and I cannot be fucked with having to remember to carry a card or otherwise dick around with my phone just to get the ‘members’ price. Fuck that.