Nectar Connect is closing – an easy source of Avios goes away

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• RussellH says:

  8 Aug8 August 09:51

  I would have thought that a significant contribution to the closure of Nectar Connect would be the fairly recent introduction of Nectar Prices, which Sainsbury’s, as the owner of Nectar, is having to finance.
  Many of these reductions are quite significant – some packs of Oral B toothbrush heads are offering £5 or £18 – 28% reduction.
  I assume that Oral B is helping to finance these offers, but they will not be paying all of it, surely.

  • @thirdpassport says:

    8 Aug8 August 10:05

    I love Nectar Prices. The only reason I go to Sainsbury’s these days.

    • Harrier25 says:

      8 Aug8 August 18:03

      Yeah, they took a Tesco idea and made it much more attractive.

  • Ryan says:

    8 Aug8 August 10:06

    You’re forgetting that the original price is actually inflated (usually) above what they’d usually sell them for. Rarely have I seen genuine offers, 75% are just putting it back to around what you’d expect

    • Harrier25 says:

      8 Aug8 August 18:07

      No, the prices are not inflated. Stop making false claims with no examples to back them up with.

      • Mikeact says:

        8 Aug8 August 18:48

        Absolutely…post should have been deleted.

        • Rob says:

          8 Aug8 August 19:57

          Nectar staff have told me that ‘Nectar Prices’ are just offers which would have been ‘open to all’ promotions before but are now gated offers.

      • RYan says:

        9 Aug9 August 00:07

        Okay not literally pumped before but you’d previously expected to see them as an offer, similar to how clubcard prices work – the prices aren’t a benefit but putting you back to what you’d expect

  • Gavin says:

    8 Aug8 August 23:23

    Nectar prices is not a good thing. These same promotions were open to everyone before it was introduced a few months ago, now it forces you to use a nectar card.

    • Ian says:

      9 Aug9 August 08:01

      You’re not forced to use a Nectar card, it’s a choice. In return for you sharing data on your shopping habits you get a discounted price; if you prefer not to share your data you don’t get the discount. Seems a perfectly reasonable business practice to me.

      • Rob says:

        9 Aug9 August 09:22

        Sends out bad vibes to those who don’t have a card, which is not recommended.

        People will start to think ‘not bothering to pop into Sainsburys for item X because they will rip me off for not having a Nectar card’.

        • Mike says:

          9 Aug9 August 17:46

          … I understand the sentiment but as Tesco, Morrisons, Waitrose, Co-op, and Booths all have equivalent member only price schemes – that would mean you could only then shop at Asda, Lidl or Aldi?

        • Will says:

          10 Aug10 August 01:10

          I’ve been an avid Tesco clubcard customer since adulthood and even for me the introduction clubcard prices really left a bad taste in my mouth.

          It wasn’t solely because of that but I now shop only at lidl and ocado.

          Having gotten used to lidl, I know struggle to shop in a big supermarket. The choice is actually difficult to process.

        • Rob says:

          10 Aug10 August 07:46

          Know what you mean. Having spent the last 30 years using London Waitrose stores, going in to a Tesco Extra once a decade (or more likely a Middle East hypermarket) gives me the same feeling.

  • Sam says:

    10 Aug10 August 15:06

    The manufacturer/producer usually absorbs all / most of the cost of supermarket promos.

    Oral B toothbrush heads are often sold at a comparable price to Nectar in Amazon, Costco and Superdrug still making a sizable profit.

• Ironside says:

  8 Aug8 August 10:10

  “it looked at everything you spent on your credit cards and used this for marketing purposes”

  I value this information at several thousand pounds. That is based on the premise that a) the marketing is intended to encourage me to part with at least that sum, or more; and b) the low-but-not-insignificant possibility of all that data being hacked and my time being spent managing the fallout.

  Since the return on investment (of my data) was never going to be in the region of several hundred thousand Avios, it was never IMHO worthwhile.

• Rob says:

  8 Aug8 August 10:38

  Yes, strange that 🙂 People block cookies and then don’t understand why the cookie that tracks their transaction journey failed.

  Wait until iOS 17 rolls out which automatically strips out most tracking data when you click a link in an email.

  • Richie says:

    8 Aug8 August 13:46

    Will that affect how MailChimp works?

    • Rob says:

      8 Aug8 August 13:57

      No, but we may lose commission from people who open our emails on an iPhone and buy something.

• Ben says:

  8 Aug8 August 11:19

  Ahh, okay, thanks; it must be my office security, so I’ll do it from my home PC from now on.

  As you say, they are actually good at sorting out the missing transactions.

  I earn at least 30K a year through it, it’s my favourite pastime.

• BajiNahid says:

  8 Aug8 August 16:28

  nectar connect gone from the desktop site too :(, a notice would however have been good to let customers know?

  • Chrisasaurus says:

    8 Aug8 August 18:30

    I think both of them already know by now…

• Mikeact says:

  8 Aug8 August 16:35

  Some of the Amex offers I’ve never heard of.

• Ian says:

  8 Aug8 August 20:58

  I rarely have problems, except for Interflora transactions which never post correctly and always require a call to Customer Services.

• Ryan says:

  9 Aug9 August 00:10

  Gone will be the days of “recontracting” my Sky TV (changing the DD to another account & link it) for an easy £50. Done that 2 or 3 times, good times

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