At last – Waitrose lets you earn airline miles when you shop in-store

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• Matthew says:

  21 Mar21 March 07:32

  Tim, are these lloyds ‘my offers’ only for those with a lloyds current account too or credit card only? I have the latter but never see any offers! Thanks.

  • pauldb says:

    21 Mar21 March 09:12

    Yes you have to hold a current account too – they pay the offers into your current account. (My wife has both, I just have the CC and miss out.)

    • Matthew says:

      22 Mar22 March 19:43

      Ok thanks for the info 🙂

• Alex W says:

  21 Mar21 March 07:35

  Does that apply to the Lloyds Avios Credit cards?

  • mark2 says:

    21 Mar21 March 08:32

    They appear on the online banking application.
    I do not know whether you can use it if you only have Lloyds credit cards as we had current accounts first. You can earn far more than the £24 fee back each year leaving the saved FX as additional profit.

• James67 says:

  21 Mar21 March 07:38

  My local Waitrose is just down the road but is stinks (in the olfactory sense) something awful. Always pass it to go to Sainsburys but now might have to grin and bear it. If we register the card and use it to place an online order can we still get the miles?

  You forgot ‘HFP Exclusive’ in the title or did Anika beat you to it?

• Simon says:

  21 Mar21 March 07:43

  O/T – Just saw this on my AMEX account…
  Bring a loved one on board

  Apply by 31 March 2017 for a complimentary Supplementary British Airways Premium Plus Card and receive 3,000 Avios for the first approved Card.*

  • Anna says:

    21 Mar21 March 08:04

    I haven’t got that – where can you see it?

    • Liz says:

      21 Mar21 March 08:21

      Some people reported it was showing on their account when they logged in but I didn’t have the offer – I sent a secure message to Amex and asked if I could add my mother in law – was told the regular offer was only 500 Avios but they would honour the 3000 pts!

  • Chris says:

    21 Mar21 March 08:14

    Presumably you don’t already have a supp card holder on that account?

    • Simon says:

      21 Mar21 March 08:26

      Exactly. Will add my wife to mine and vice versa…..

    • Liz says:

      21 Mar21 March 08:46

      I did – I added my hubby at the time of application.

      • Brian says:

        21 Mar21 March 09:00

        Doesn’t the second supp have to be paid for???

        • Liz says:

          21 Mar21 March 09:08

          No mention of any fee – this is on my BAPP – I did this last year too and never got charged anything and received 500 Avios back then. Email says to let them know when I get the supp card they will add the 3000 Avios.

        • Genghis says:

          21 Mar21 March 09:11

          I thought BAPP was free supps but supps on the Amex MR cards charge after the first one?

• PAL says:

  21 Mar21 March 07:44

  So spending £250 in American golf with the virgin white visa will get 1250 virgin miles? 4×1 plus the usual for using your card?

• Alex W says:

  21 Mar21 March 07:52

  Bye bye Tesco Clubcard! Unless they start offering a transfer bonus again, I think I’ll be switching my shop to Waitrose.

• Simon says:

  21 Mar21 March 08:03

  Waitrose “premium” pricing will erode a lot of this benefit… Prices of most branded goods are much more than Tesco or Asda……

  • BrianDT says:

    21 Mar21 March 08:12

    Rubbish.

  • Toby Walsh says:

    21 Mar21 March 08:18

    Waitrose Price Match Tesco on all branded goods so not true!

    With Waitrose Pick Your Own as well it can often be cheaper – especially if the branded goods are on offer as it takes the 20% PYO discount off the full price 🙂 (40% off if Buy One Get one free for example)

    • Simon says:

      21 Mar21 March 08:25

      Oh. apologies. Am I thinking of Ocado…. I know things like Diet Coke, Andrex and Lenor come out more expensive on there…..

      • Brian says:

        21 Mar21 March 08:53

        You can’t even be thinking of Ocado – every time I’ve compared prices on there, they are generally the same (they also price match to Tesco, I believe) AND they often have offers on that the supermarkets don’t have. To be honest, the one supermarket that does charge more than the others is Sainsbury’s!

      • Julian says:

        21 Mar21 March 09:01

        Simon,

        The £100k+ salary per annum wage slave corporate snobs (AKA Directors or Senior Managers or BA Gold card holders) are talking about Branded Goods when I think those of us who have given up being Overpaid Lackies of Big Business will tend to be buying the Waitrose own branded goods. These goods are frequently a lot more expensive than their equivalent at Tesco, Sainsbury, Asda, Morrisons, Aldi or Lidl. Only the small number of Waitrose own branded goods called Essential (which they completely choose so for instance Tzatsiki is an Essential product but no Waitrose Pate is Essential) make any attempt to price match but they only price match against their next most expensive supermarket competitor and not against the cheapest supplier in the industry!!!

        Also nearly all fresh meat and and fresh fish at Waitrose is either unbranded (from the fresh counters) or Waitrose own brand (if packaged) and fresh meat and fresh fish plus fresh fruit is generally massively more expensive at Waitrose than the other chain supermarkets by a factor of up 100% to 150% on many products; Only Marks and Spencer is ever more expensive than Waitrose on Fresh FIsh, Fresh Meat and Fresh Fruit.

        I used to go to Waitrose periodically to buy stocks of their wonderful own brand sugar sweetened lime juice at half the price of Rose’s Sugar Sweetened Lime Juice. But now that Waitrose’s Buyers (who refuse to explain or justify their actions when challenged through customers service) have signed up as Fully Paid Members of the Anti Sugar Government Thought Police and banned all sugar sweetened squashes from their stores (including Rose’s Lime Juice still made and widely sold elsewhere by the Coca Cola Corporation). So I have now taken my business for Rose’s Lime Juice back to Tesco (where it is also usually cheapest compared to other stores).

        • Thomas says:

          21 Mar21 March 09:12

          I think all that lime juice has gone to your head.
          Waitrose would be less busy than it is if it only appealed to people on over £100k.

        • Toby says:

          21 Mar21 March 09:40

          Don’t be so damn rude or ignorant. Don’t call other people snobs. Get some bloody manners and get off this forum! I’m a student who is clearly just better with money than you’ll ever be.

        • LB says:

          21 Mar21 March 10:50

          I wish I could be an over-paid lackie instead of being an under-paid lackie.

        • dgsupersonic says:

          21 Mar21 March 11:09

          You can soon start comparing diabetes medication too.

        • Leo says:

          21 Mar21 March 11:12

          You sound very bitter – which is somewhat ironic.

        • Anna says:

          21 Mar21 March 11:50

          There’s an irony in accusing someone of rudeness and ignorance, while using two separate profanities and ordering them off a forum which is run by a third party… 🙂

        • Toby Walsh says:

          21 Mar21 March 18:37

          Saying that saying everyone with a BA Gold Card is a snob is pretty damn rude. I have had one and I’m not a snob. I know many people who have them and they are certainly not snobs.

          Also, Anna, I suggested Julian leaves this forum as unless I’m mistaken, the man who spends his free time helping all of us out is a Gold Card Holder and not a snob. Maybe Julian should show some respect for the service he receives for free and doesn’t pay a penny for.

          Plus there is no need for your catty smiley face at the end – or comment in fact – I’m sure if Julian thinks we’re all snobs he can back himself up!

    • Frenske says:

      21 Mar21 March 09:02

      Waitrose is significantly more expensive when looking at fresh products e.g. meat, fish, poultry, fruit and veg. Also in general their own brand products are slightly more expensive.

      Which? does (objective) test supermarkets prices and Waitrose is constantly the most expensive one.

      • Thomas says:

        21 Mar21 March 09:08

        Waitrose own brand ready meals etc are so far ahead of the cheaper supermarkets in quality that price comparisons make almost no sense. The last time I went into Asda, I couldn’t find any fresh/ready meals I’d want to eat – I guess that’s one way of spending less money.

      • Rob says:

        21 Mar21 March 09:11

        And if you buy the stuff, you realise why.

        • dgsupersonic says:

          21 Mar21 March 11:08

          Agree. All this comparison is pointless since the quality is not the same.

• Alan Hunt says:

  21 Mar21 March 08:04

  I *assume* that the term “Payment card” on the website also includes debit cards? I prefer to avoid using credit cards for food shopping but do use them for everything else….

  • Genghis says:

    21 Mar21 March 08:30

    Why avoid using a credit card for food shopping? Is it not an easy source of points?

    • Anna says:

      21 Mar21 March 09:22

      Agreed. Just my Amex spend at Tesco gets me up to 1000 avios per month and that’s before any Clubcard conversions.

      • Lumma says:

        21 Mar21 March 10:35

        The only thing i use my debit card for these days is paying the credit card bills that aren’t done by direct debit!

  • Aeronaut says:

    21 Mar21 March 10:05

    “Payment card” is meant to be an inclusive term for both debit and credit cards. (Doesn’t necessarily include Amex though!)

    • Anna says:

      21 Mar21 March 10:20

      The point was that Alan said he doesn’t like using credit cards for food shopping!

      • Rob says:

        21 Mar21 March 10:45

        Logically …. you would buy ‘capital goods’ (ie stuff you will use for a number of years) on credit – because you pay it off over the period you use it – and ‘consumable goods’ like food for cash / debit card, because you are in trouble if you are buying food to eat today with a view to paying off the bill tomorrow.

        As long as you clear the credit card bill at the end of the month, of course, it doesn’t make any difference.

        I know that some people who struggle with money prefer debit cards because they instantly see their account balance reduced and it stops them buying anything else. Otherwise they spend their money and get to the end of the month only to find a fat credit card bill on the mat which they can’t pay.

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