The Daily Mail is dropping Nectar points from next week

The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday have become the latest partners to walk away from the Nectar loyalty scheme.

They join an increasingly long list. It is only a matter of time before the only Nectar earning partners left will be businesses owned by Sainsbury’s, such as Argos and Habitat. This is frustrating, given that Nectar points and Avios have been transferable since January 2021 (details here).

The most recent partner to quit was DFDS Ferries in May. The five rail partners – TPE, Avanti, GWR, LNER and South Western Railway – have gone and there is a long list of other leavers over the years.

According to the Mail website:

Since MyMail launched we have been delighted to reward our members with over £100 million through a combination of Nectar points, competition prizes and free rewards. However, our partnership with Nectar will close at the end 2023.

As a result of this difficult decision, from Thursday, September 14, you will no longer collect any Nectar points each time you enter your Unique Number and Spin the Golden Wheel. Instead, you will collect Raffle Tickets to enter our Monthly Raffles.

For the next few months there will still be some promotional offers to collect Nectar points including offers for print and digital subscribers.

If you have a subscription to the newspapers, you get a stay of execution:

For the next few months Print Subscribers will still collect 10 Nectar points each time they enter a Unique Number. These will not show up immediately after you enter your Unique Number. Instead, we will credit them to your account on a weekly basis.

For the next few months Digital Subscribers will still collect 150 Nectar points for each month they have an active subscription. These will be credited to your account at the end of each month.

The scheme had already been cut back over the years and literally wasn’t worth the effort in my view. The last time I entered a unique serial number from a copy of the Mail that crossed my path and ‘spun the golden wheel’, I received two Nectar points, worth 1p or 1.25 Avios.

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