Exclusive: Pret A Manger to launch ‘Pret Perks’ loyalty scheme in the UK

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.

• Robert says:

  9 Nov9 November 13:32

  Rob the details have been hiding in plain site:

  https://www.pret.co.uk/en-GB/legal -> Pret Account and Loyalty

  • Andrew says:

    9 Nov9 November 14:41

    Sounds a bit like the M&S Sparks (although more guaranteed rather than randomly) whereby the “reward” will be an item chosen by them (probably something you don’t normally buy) so if you always buy croissant they’ll offer you a free muffin.

• Cranzle says:

  9 Nov9 November 13:33

  Whilst I agree they have tried to stand out from the crowd, I wouldn’t agree that the quality of their coffee is so high. Quite the opposite. Just because it’s organic, doesn’t mean it’s high quality.

  • Oh! Matron! says:

    9 Nov9 November 14:07

    It’s so bad, it makes Tarbucks look palatable.

    I had a McDonalds coffee the other day: Surprisingly okay

    • Ben says:

      9 Nov9 November 14:16

      Agreed. I had a Gregs coffee last week and was pleasantly surprised.

      • Anthony says:

        9 Nov9 November 19:21

        McDonald’s and Greggs don’t have oat
        milk. I like Pret coffee!

        • Mike says:

          9 Nov9 November 21:50

          Don’t be ridiculous oat is not a milk- it is a nut !

  • Andrew says:

    9 Nov9 November 14:17

    I would agree – I have to order flat white at Pret to make it taste of coffee as a latte is like hot milk.

    • Lady London says:

      9 Nov9 November 18:05

      Extra shot, always, at Pret.

      I hope they’re not going to do anything silly like exclude airport branches.

      Pret is also expanding into airports abroad, at least pre-Covid. Their offering very welcome, even if the increases in prices wasn’t. Guessing they will only allow UK branch purchases to count.

• A says:

  9 Nov9 November 13:42

  I think I’m still banned on my iphone from the pret app…. a few years ago I may have taken the piss with multiple accounts in order to get iirc 10 any size free drinks just for signing up (it was a cold winter).

  • Gormlesstraveller says:

    9 Nov9 November 16:06

    How does this work if you uninstall and install an app – can they see a unique device ID and SIM card phone number?

    • John says:

      9 Nov9 November 19:03

      Device ID certainly

  • Alex Sm says:

    10 Nov10 November 11:29

    and you still have the same phone as “few years ago”. Poor you….

• Richie says:

  9 Nov9 November 13:52

  I think we need Pret v Greggs reviews.

  • whiskerxx says:

    9 Nov9 November 19:14

    Happy to say that Pret recently closed my nearest store.
    Greggs are currently shopfitting the same premises

    • BuildBackBetter says:

      9 Nov9 November 21:19

      Followed by property prices going down

• Andrew says:

  9 Nov9 November 14:15

  Errr Pret is throughout the country in major towns and cities, not just in London! There’s about 8 in Birmingham city centre.

  • Rob says:

    9 Nov9 November 14:18

    They pulled out of a lot of cities outside the M25 during covid.

    • Andrew says:

      9 Nov9 November 14:34

      But lots remain. Pret website lists 10 in Manchester, excluding the ones at the airport….

  • Mr(s) Entitled says:

    9 Nov9 November 14:37

    For the benefit of the majority of HfP readers Birmingham is a city of 1.2m people based to the north of London.

    • Mr(s) Entitled says:

      9 Nov9 November 14:39

      For the benefit of the majority of HfP readers Manchester is a city of 0.6m people based to the north of Birmingham. For information on Birmingham, see above.

      • The Savage Squirrel says:

        9 Nov9 November 14:53

        Seems very small? – Greater Manc is 2M+ after all. Still, probably officially right; for example they do like to pretend that Salford is a different city when it blatantly isn’t. :p

      • Pete M says:

        9 Nov9 November 15:08

        Never heard of these places – thank you, you learn something new every day!

• Harry Holden says:

  9 Nov9 November 14:20

  Like the city centre office blocks it relies upon, Pret just doesn’t realise it is dying yet.

  • Mr(s) Entitled says:

    9 Nov9 November 14:31

    Or with the laucnh of this scheme, maybe they do.

  • Rob says:

    9 Nov9 November 14:35

    They are active. They are doing implants in Tesco stores now, and are launching a franchise programme. Kings Road was literally out of the door at 8.15 this morning. The snag, as I once read, is that their cost base is so high because of making products on site that you need 4,000 customers per week to break even and this simply isn’t possible in a lot of suburban locations.

    • Gtellez says:

      9 Nov9 November 15:33

      Try to go to the one next to the University of Manchester, everyday the queue goes out of the door, usually 50 people waiting for their free coffee at anytime of the day.

      • Chrisasaurus says:

        10 Nov10 November 07:25

        Well, wait until you have an additional 20 seconds of messing around looking for the new app to register your purchase for every customer.

        Can look forward to queues even worse – yay!

• Andrew says:

  9 Nov9 November 14:27

  We’ve got a worksite Pret here. It’s so handy, and incredibly busy.

  • Cranzle says:

    9 Nov9 November 14:35

    I’m sure they are very busy in NHS hospitals etc.

    • John says:

      9 Nov9 November 14:45

      More likely to be a Costa in hospitals I think?

      • Andrew says:

        10 Nov10 November 08:41

        It’s very busy in this NHS hospital.

• Dominic says:

  9 Nov9 November 14:37

  Smart addition to go alongside the coffee subscription.

This article is closed to new comments. Feel free to ask your question in the HfP forums.