How you can earn Virgin Flying Club miles shopping at Waitrose

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• pablo says:

  8 Apr8 April 04:01

  £5 off £20 spend at Lidl on my BA Amex this morning.

  • vol says:

    8 Apr8 April 05:27

    +1 on my membership rewards card and BA Amex

  • Si says:

    8 Apr8 April 06:08

    I’ve saved offer to 4 cards. £80 in Lidl…. what to buy…?? Might get myself a Romanian Jet Ski or something (not a enthusiasm)

    • Anna says:

      8 Apr8 April 07:29

      Umm – food? My next 4 grocery shops will be there! (It may be the first time they’ve seen an Amex in my local store…)

      • @mkcol says:

        8 Apr8 April 08:10

        Probably will given they have only just started accepting AMEX 🙄

    • Chris L says:

      8 Apr8 April 08:44

      There’s some surprisingly decent wine 🙂

      • Shoestring says:

        8 Apr8 April 13:13

        Lidl keep winning all manner of prizes for their wines as regards cost: quality

        best continental deli around IMV – though the couple of times I ever went to Lidl in London it was a manic scrum so I can understand why Londoners might see them as infra Waitrose

      • Alcoholic says:

        8 Apr8 April 14:02

        any specific details of what you recommend?

  • Peter 64K says:

    8 Apr8 April 08:11

    Thanks for that!

  • Polly says:

    8 Apr8 April 08:42

    Plus yesterday’s Sunday Times, 10 off 40 spend at Lidl.

    • Mike says:

      8 Apr8 April 13:29

      Oh yes that £5 off £20 spend at LIDL on my BA Amex will stack nicely with Sunday times £10 off a £40 spend. £40 worth of LIDL shopping for only £25. I am huge fan of Ben Bracken Islay Single Malt Whisky at £17 so it will be two of those plus some other goodies – pity the Times coupon limits only 2 alcoholic products per voucher (or none in Scotland – for obvious reasons)

      • Crafty says:

        8 Apr8 April 21:07

        The obvious reason is that alcohol promotions are illegal in Scotland.

      • Shoestring says:

        8 Apr8 April 21:09

        Anybody know which distillery supplies Ben Bracken?

      • David says:

        9 Apr9 April 08:49

        The reason most money off vouchers don’t work on transactions including alcohol in Scotland isn’t that they’re illegal per se, but that doing so in a way that is guaranteed not to breach minimum unit pricing legislation (total basket price after any discounts cannot be less than 50p multiplied by the number of units of alcohol in the basket) is challenging, typically the EPoS system won’t even know how many units of alcohol are in each product.

• TigerTanaka says:

  8 Apr8 April 04:08

  Just Greggs (and B&Q) to go for Amex!

  • Alex W says:

    8 Apr8 April 08:02

    Subway and Burger King still lagging behind!

    • JG says:

      8 Apr8 April 09:12

      Some Subways do take it, the one on Buckingham Palace Road near Victoria coach station does. Must depend on the franchisee.

    • Charlie says:

      8 Apr8 April 14:38

      And KFC too!

      • Toilet Paper man says:

        9 Apr9 April 10:20

        Some subways and some KFCs do take it! Must depend on the person running the franchise I guess…

  • CV3V says:

    8 Apr8 April 12:57

    Greggs app can be topped up via Paypal account, linked to Amex.

  • BJ says:

    8 Apr8 April 13:38

    I eas in the City last week and was a little surprised to see tge northern working class bakers had made it there too. Bot only that, it eas doing better trade than other places around. Somewhat disappointed though that they have given up on some traditional favourites like fruit slices.

    • Rebecca D'Mornay says:

      8 Apr8 April 14:27

      They’ve been around for ages! Not everyone working in the City is on 6 figure salaries plus bonuses!! There’s an army of workers on the living wage or just a bit more that also need to be fed.

      And I can’t face another Pret sandwich dripping in mayo and little else. If I want to eat unhealthy, I’ll go to McDonalds – are they still part owners of it?

      • BJ says:

        8 Apr8 April 15:12

        After reading some newspaper articles about Prey last year I stopped eating there too. Fine me Greggs any day.

• Stephen C says:

  8 Apr8 April 04:13

  UK Lidl or GB Lidl? Wondering if NI will be left out (as usual) as we seem to fall under Lidl Ireland

  • Stephen C says:

    8 Apr8 April 08:10

    £5 off £20 on my Amex but Northern Ireland stores not participating, don’t even register on the Lidl UK website 🙁 Will give Amex a try next time I’m in just to see

    • Clarence says:

      8 Apr8 April 13:47

      Don’t worry. After Brexit it will probably be Lidl UK

      • Deluded says:

        8 Apr8 April 14:06

        You think there’ll be a Brexit?

        Or more pertinently, you think there’ll be a Brexit in NI ?!?!?!

  • RussellH says:

    8 Apr8 April 10:46

    Complain to the DUP!

    • Stephen C says:

      8 Apr8 April 10:52

      Not sure that they were involved in how Lidl structure their UK and Ireland businesses

      • RussellH says:

        8 Apr8 April 13:01

        Quite. But they do claim that they insist that things work in NI exactly the same way as in GB – unless they want it the other way, of course.

    • BJ says:

      8 Apr8 April 13:02

      They’ll want a £billion to look at it.

      • RussellH says:

        8 Apr8 April 15:17

        A real billion (10^12) or a banker’s/polititian’s mini-billion (10^9)?

  • Sharon says:

    12 Apr12 April 18:31

    Tried to use in a Lidl in NI today – wouldn’t work.

• DaveP says:

  8 Apr8 April 05:45

  I notice the Amex logo on the Waitrose page (via the above Virgin link). If you use Amex there would you effectively ‘double dip’ from Amex spend and then get Virgin miles from Waitrose?

  • Gavin T says:

    8 Apr8 April 06:20

    Yes, you can register an MR or other AmEx card for in-store spend on the Virgin site.

  • Rob says:

    8 Apr8 April 08:54

    Yes

  • Alex Sm says:

    8 Apr8 April 12:02

    I earn Virgin miles from BA Amex spend at Waitrose however ridiculous it might sound!

    • BJ says:

      8 Apr8 April 13:10

      OT @Alan, since you are in Morrison’s a lot…can we use their gift cards for petrol? Got 10% off on Halifax to a maximum £15. Which Waitrose do you use? Comely Bank nearest me and it always stinks. Can it decide if it’s just dirty or cheese, olives and meat!

      • Alan says:

        8 Apr8 April 13:25

        @BJ I don’t think so any more, although I remember someone (Liz?) mentioning the paper vouchers bought in store could be used for fuel. The Hunter’s Tryst Morrisons has self-scan without scales option which works a treat for gift card purchases. Also if you use their app you can now select the redeem vouchers in-app, as long as you do it >10-15 min in advance then as soon as you scan your barcode from the app it’ll deduct the money (previously when requested via the website it would only print them).

        I very rarely use Waitrose I’m afraid – my folks have used the Comely Bank one and not complained (apart from about their prices!)

      • BJ says:

        8 Apr8 April 13:43

        Thanks Alan, glad I asked before making the wrong assumptions.

      • EwanG says:

        8 Apr8 April 14:39

        @BJ – I still have working my way through my Morrisons paper gift vouchers (bought at the kiosk till). Never had any issues getting them accepted for fuel or in store for payment, and they give change too!
        There’s no expiry on the vouchers so you’ve got nothing to lose buying £150 worth, and you could even spend those paper gift vouchers on branded (e.g. Amazon) gift cards too!

        • Alan says:

          8 Apr8 April 14:48

          Nice – wish I’d bought a few of them in the last Amex offer – still working my way through a few k of Amazon credit lol

      • BJ says:

        8 Apr8 April 15:21

        Thanks Ewan, it’s a store I’m rarely in so never got familiar with it..

• PaulC says:

  8 Apr8 April 06:47

  I was in Lidl yesterday, not been in for ages and used my AMEX, didn’t realise they had only joined recently. Will check this morning for £5 off £20 spend in my cards.

  • Ian says:

    8 Apr8 April 09:45

    Yes it’s appeared on my BA Amex card too. I note the offer is limited to the first 50,000 customers who save the offer to the card.

  • Alex Sm says:

    8 Apr8 April 12:03

    We were waiting for this for ages, my partner and I love Lidl! and suddenly I noticed Amex stickers across the Shepherds Bush store last week. BA 2-4-1 voucher spending target will now be easier to hit!

  • PaulC says:

    8 Apr8 April 13:47

    All three of our AMEX cards have the offer on. Now to find £60 worth to split 3 ways. We have a new Lidl being build near us, I suspect I will visiting more often when it opens.

    • Alex Sm says:

      10 Apr10 April 17:58

      My partner (a supplementary card holder) had it while I didn’t! Appalling

• allycat says:

  8 Apr8 April 06:53

  OT Tesco SIMs – just had my second 2 x 2000 points post on same main Clubcard account but using 2 different clubcard numbers which feed that main account. I queried about 10 days ago on HFP if anyone had confirmed if the T&C limit of 2 SIMs per clubcard NUMBER really meant 2 per main account or per card number and it was a little unclear. This confirms, for me at least, that it is 2 per number not 2 per account as I have now had 4 on the same account. All 4 posted under the same account number on the online statement so an earlier comment of “damn their competence” seems incorrect now. I think I will stop there now rather than push it too far in case they start doing lots of analysis ! But of course my son at uni who has his own account at a different address and who is in our BA HHA might take advantage … 😉

  • Matt B says:

    8 Apr8 April 07:58

    Interesting to hear this. I’ve already got 4000 on mine and currently doing the same for the wife’s.

    When I log in to my account I can see I have 4 other clubcard numbers, anyway to find out the full numbers as all but the last few digits are asterisked out?

    • allycat says:

      8 Apr8 April 08:16

      Rummage around your drawers looking for the spare cards or keyfobs, or call them?

  • Chas says:

    8 Apr8 April 08:57

    I’ve got my 2 SIMs (ordered online), and popped into my local Tesco Express yesterday to buy the Rocket Packs. The only Tesco Mobile items on display had no mention of Rocket Packs on their packaging, so I walked out empty handed – what am I missing? Am normally a Pay Monthly customer, so really not used to topping up credit…

    • Grant says:

      8 Apr8 April 09:04

      You just buy 2 x £20 credit from the tills – they issue a printed receipt with a code. Use that code to top-up your accounts and then buy rocket packs with the credit. At least, that’s the way I did it and I’ve had my points.

      • Chas says:

        8 Apr8 April 09:13

        Thanks

    • Matt B says:

      8 Apr8 April 09:05

      I just asked for a £20 tesco mobile top up. They give you a code to redeem on a receipt.

  • BJ says:

    8 Apr8 April 13:20

    Thanks 🙂 I’m currently at 16000 clubcard points across 4 accounts. Might now try adding some more. At the limit of what I will pay for avios but with cash fares creeping up, earning doors closing and the risk of devaluation always present I’m going to continue to play this one.

• Shoestring says:

  8 Apr8 April 07:03

  scroll down to Alex 🙂
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/

  • Mike says:

    8 Apr8 April 07:16

    Harry – thanks, made me smile..

  • Peter 64K says:

    8 Apr8 April 08:11

    A lot of truth in that 😁

  • marcw says:

    8 Apr8 April 09:37

    So hilarious…

  • RussellH says:

    8 Apr8 April 10:50

    Thanks Harry!
    I used to like Alex, but then he defected from the Independent to the Torygraph, so I hardly ever see him anymore.

  • Alan says:

    8 Apr8 April 13:26

    haha love it

  • The Savage Squirrel says:

    8 Apr8 April 13:29

    Looks like we can chalk Alex up as an HfP reader 🙂

• Paul says:

  8 Apr8 April 07:43

  O/T – I am looking for advice in order to book a single , I’ve already booked a single on Singapore Airlines business class to Sydney from Singapore and am now looking to book return. I am particularly looking to experience the first / suites product as we have never flown first class before. Looking at the flights, they offer the 777-300ER and A380-800 at various times of the day. Which plane would you recommend please? Departure times are 09:05, 12:15, 16:40, 19:10, as it’s only 8.5 hrs duration do you see much difference in the product experience? Thanks in advance.

  • Andrew S says:

    8 Apr8 April 08:12

    A380 will give you the First Class Suites. If it is a 6 suite set-up, it is the new suites product. 12 is the old (but still supposedly very good) suites product.
    The 777-300 is a First Class seat (not a suite).

    • Dev says:

      8 Apr8 April 12:21

      Old Suites are fantastic still. Service is excellent and food is probably best described as divine. Then there are the two vintage champagnes on board. You will enjoy the experience on the 8.5 hour flight.

      Yes, I’m a fan. But not a member of KrisFlyer. Yet.

    • Paul says:

      8 Apr8 April 13:12

      Thanks Andrew.

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