Square Eyes wrote:Chie wrote:Asda's 'spend £40, get £40 worth of vouchers' promotion is disappointingly deceptive. I had thought it was basically 'buy one weekly shop, get one weekly shop free' but apparently you're given a booklet of savings vouchers that are redeemable against 27 selected items only, meaning you would need to spend something like £150 to take full advantage of the £40 saving! Selected items include beef steak, whiskey and cat food, which is about as useful as a lesbian panda if you're a teetotal dog-owning vegetarian.
You need Morrisons for that kind of deal. They're doing a spend £40 over 5 weeks and get £40 back to spend over Christmas / New Year kind of thing.
As we all know, when it comes to supermarkets Morrisons are the innovators.
How is that at all innovative? It's no more innovative than Green Shield stamps. (Sorry if I missed a bit of sarcasm there.)
It's a £25 time-limited voucher and a separately timed £5 voucher if you spend £40
FOR 5 weeks not £40 over the course of 5 weeks, so it works out as a 15% back
if you spend only £40 for 5 weeks - spend more and the discount rapidly decreases in value, then of course there is no further discount on the shops you have to do to use the £25 and £5 vouchers (and you're at their mercy as to what offers they have during the period they're on, typically not brilliant offers if previous years are to go by).
Nowhere near as good as the straight %back you get with Tesco and Sainsburys through the year. And there you get to shop in a pleasant modern supermarket rather than a tacky c.1980 branch of Tesco.
From an operational point of view it's a nightmare too; staff in every store have to spend a good amount of time validating receipts to issue vouchers. Further evidence to my point that Morrisons is managed by idiots.
