Everyday Rewards Targeted Offers

[Rembrandt]

Boost to top up to 2000 points at WW. No minimum spend. This is a great offer as I'm currently only at 60 points right now.

I received that too. I read the T&C's and no minimum spend! I spent $8 in store and was credited 2000 points within the hour. I guess this promotion was to get people into Big W for EOFY sales.

 

[GSP]

My oath they do! I'me getting five times as much for a savings account

as a cheque account


BTW paid my $10 a month for my woolies mobile account and got the 10% discount off a $140 shop, net saving $4. I profit every month. Hoping that Woolies don't wake up to this one too soon.

Cheers skip

What plan do you have for Woolies Mobile? That piqued my interest and the cheapest SIM only plan was $25pm.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

OT, but that’s 6 more than SA - I recently discovered….

OT, too, half the total of AMPM's BP outlet are out in the sticks, so to speak.
Mawson Lakes is quite far out.
Only 4 are in metro Adelaide.
OTR are the lucky chooks.
Back on T,

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

For WM, or Woolworths mobile, you only get several thousand EDR/WWR points *(once off)* if you buy that post paid $$$ brand new mobile, and then get 10% off your groceries, but no ongoing points, post paid or if you buy a prepaid Woolworths mobile.
And its not as if BB does not know my sentiments, or someone at WW should know, as I keep writing many times in my feedback to WW/WWR, that if they allow WWR/EDR points on prepaid mobile recharges, I would bring my mobile services over to WW.

 

[PineappleSkip]

What plan do you have for Woolies Mobile? That piqued my interest and the cheapest SIM only plan was $25pm.

30 day prepaid plan. They seem to have dropped the $10 plan from their website but here’s the critical information summary. The $20 plan is currently 50% off for an unspecified period (first month?).

cheers skip

 

[AisleSeat]

Best read the T&Cs of that one. They normally specify the number of points you will actually get.

Says 2000 according to TandC. It's not that offer where if you hit 2000 the week before then you get 800 etc.

 

[oz_mark]

Boost to top up to 2000 points at WW. No minimum spend. This is a great offer as I'm currently only at 60 points right now.

Says 2000 according to TandC. It's not that offer where if you hit 2000 the week before then you get 800 etc.

Quite, but "Boost to top up to 2000 points" is not the same as here is 2,000 points

 

[AisleSeat]

Quite, but "Boost to top up to 2000 points" is not the same as here is 2,000 points

My wording was incorrect, it's "boost to to up with"

 

[chrispy3276]

As a part of my weekly product boosts, I've received 2 separate boosts for what could be used for the same product (150 points for buying the product - suspect brand sponsored, and 50 points for buying the product which I typically get every couple of weeks). Has anyone ever had this happen before and have you been credited for both boosts with the 1 purchase?

 

[SydneySwan]

I can't remember if I have had such an offer but have had plenty of offers where one spend counts twice. For example - spend 0.01c for 1700 pts plus 5 * points for spend on meat. Both sets of points post.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

As a part of my weekly product boosts, I've received 2 separate boosts for what could be used for the same product (150 points for buying the product - suspect brand sponsored, and 50 points for buying the product which I typically get every couple of weeks). Has anyone ever had this happen before and have...

Its ok to double dip.
They are so desperate for $ from you that they are happy to accept it.
If you get an offer for say, 400 points for buying fresh meat (in general, any type), and then 250 for buying a specific piece of meat, lets say a leg of lamb, you are then a "winn(a)"/winner.
It can work with cheese too.
Hook line and sinker.
OT, pity Woolworths is not keen on a tie up, QFF SC wise, like the opposition to them is doing.
Buying certain products, as you need, and thus building up WWR/EDR points is much easier than trying to tot up $110/$120/$180 over 4 weeks for Coles FB.

 

[kangarooflyer88]

My "targetted" EveryDayRewards offer over the past few months has been the 1-2-3 offer:


Not a huge haulage of points but I can always find a way to hit those low thresholds. By contrast here's what I'm getting from Coles:


Bit steeper but again attainable for a PhD student like me and live off Youfoodz and other ready-made meal prep kits since you can't be bothered cooking.

Its ok to double dip.
They are so desperate for $ from you that they are happy to accept it.
If you get an offer for say, 400 points for buying fresh meat (in general, any type), and then 250 for buying a specific piece of meat, lets say a leg of lamb, you are then a "winn(a)"/winner.
It can work with cheese too.
Hook line and sinker.

Never double dip! It's like putting your whole mouth in right in the dip! From now on, when you get a bonus offer just take that one and end it. (For those unaware of the reference, it's from Seinfeld)

Joking aside, these offers from Woolies and Coles are almost always stackable. At one point I had a 2000 bonus point offer activated whilst completing a multi-week challenge that would earn me 12,000 points. When you combine that with product specific offers, especially those on the sale combined with the fact that at Coles and Woolies when you shop online you get two week's worth of catalogues to order from it's not too difficult to rack up those points quickly. Yours truly has collected around 70,000 miles between Qantas and Virgin, primarily through grocery spend and clever use of online ordering and bonus offers.

In case anyone is wondering what I mean by getting two weeks of catalogues online, when you place an order with Coles or Woolies you can often place an order during one week's sales and have delivery/pick up arranged late in the week, then once you pass by that week's catalogue do the same thing for the following week, in effect being able to stack your shop in such a way as to optimize the bonus offers you hit. For instance, this week, I really liked the offers from Woolies from last week's catalogue, so I placed an online order just before the they published this week's catalogue, arranging delivery for Sunday at 8 PM. This enables me to secure those prices, whilst meeting the qualifications to hit this week's minimum spend of $40 to secure the 2000 bonus points.

-KangarooFlyer88

 

[MooTime]

I don't get much from WW.
Atm have a spend$70 for 1000 points. Terrible return, but it's very attainable & regularly swap between FB & WW so ah just roll with what comes my way.

 

[kangarooflyer88]

I don't get much from WW.
Atm have a spend$70 for 1000 points. Terrible return, but it's very attainable & regularly swap between FB & WW so ah just roll with what comes my way.

I generally try to play off the algorithms they have built. If I see an offer drought, I'll stop shopping there, or shop there and just not scan the loyalty card. Somewhere in these systems, there must be a flag where if you spend a high number of dollars for several weeks then fall off a cliff for a month they create a new targetted offer. Perhaps this hypothesis deserves further study with a carefully controlled empirical study by fellow AFF members

-KangarooFlyer88

 

[PineappleSkip]

I have regularly travelled out of the country, typically for about 5 or 6 weeks, and of course my regular shops stop dead. The offers do ramp up, starting IIRC a few weeks in. I should maintain a tally next time.

Cheers skip

 

[kyle]

Coles are offering bonus points for online shopping for their 4 week offers. Are people actually not picky about the fruits picked by the staff, or the cuts of meat without the max expiry date being delivered?
I like my fruits without blemishes, grapes crunchy, mangoes fragrant, strawberries deep red...

 

[rogerkambah]

Coles are offering bonus points for online shopping for their 4 week offers. Are people actually not picky about the fruits picked by the staff, or the cuts of meat without the max expiry date being delivered?
I like my fruits without blemishes, grapes crunchy, mangoes fragrant, strawberries deep red...

We like to choose our own meat, veg and fruit so have never taken up any of the many online shopping offers.

 

[kangarooflyer88]

We like to choose our own meat, veg and fruit so have never taken up any of the many online shopping offers.

You're quite right! One of the downsides of online ordering is the personal shopper doesn't know exactly how ripe you like your bananas or how firm those avocados need to be. For instance, I prefer my bananas to be ripe within 2 days but avocados should be semi-firm at best so I have enough time to consume them within the week. Even outside of produce, there are other concerns too such as with milk. There have been times where I have ordered 2 litres of milk and the Use By date was under a week. How on earth am I gonna consume 2 litres of milk in under a week? Explain that to me! That is one of the big changes I had to learn moving from Canada to Australia was your milk doesn't last that long. Over in Canada, I could pick up milk in a grocery store that is specially processed to last for a month (not UHT, fresh mind that is microfiltered). Even the normal 4-litre blue bags of milk I would pick up in stores would be good for a minimum of 2 weeks. That and referring to whole milk as cough milk apparently is something grocery store workers don't take well (in Canada whole milk is referred to as homogenized or cough milk).

All of that being said, I do include instructions for the shoppers and it has mostly worked out. Not as perfect as shopping in-store, but given the COVID outbreak we have at the moment, I don't think it is prudent for me to be shopping in-store.

-KangarooFlyer88

 

[rogerkambah]

You're quite right! One of the downsides of online ordering is the personal shopper doesn't know exactly how ripe you like your bananas or how firm those avocados need to be. For instance, I prefer my bananas to be ripe within 2 days but avocados should be semi-firm at best so I have enough time to consume them within the week. Even outside of produce, there are other concerns too such as with milk. There have been times where I have ordered 2 litres of milk and the Use By date was under a week. How on earth am I gonna consume 2 litres of milk in under a week? Explain that to me! That is one of the big changes I had to learn moving from Canada to Australia was your milk doesn't last that long. Over in Canada, I could pick up milk in a grocery store that is specially processed to last for a month (not UHT, fresh mind that is microfiltered). Even the normal 4-litre blue bags of milk I would pick up in stores would be good for a minimum of 2 weeks. That and referring to whole milk as cough milk apparently is something grocery store workers don't take well (in Canada whole milk is referred to as homogenized or cough milk).

All of that being said, I do include instructions for the shoppers and it has mostly worked out. Not as perfect as shopping in-store, but given the COVID outbreak we have at the moment, I don't think it is prudent for me to be shopping in-store.

-KangarooFlyer88

Wife and I consume around 6 litres a week of Dairy Farmers Heart Active milk, in an endeavour to reduce our cholesterol levels.
It costs between $2.50 to $3.20 a litre carton from Woolies or Coles.
Purchased some on Tuesday (29 June) with a use by date of 29 July. We have however, left some in the fridge for a couple of weeks past the use by date and found it to be perfectly wholesome, possibly partly due maybe to keeping our fridge at 1-2 degrees, measured by thermometer, rather than indicated by fridge temperature control.

 

[kangarooflyer88]

Wife and I consume around 6 litres a week of Dairy Farmers Heart Active milk, in an endeavour to reduce our cholesterol levels.
It costs between $2.50 to $3.20 a litre carton from Woolies or Coles.
Purchased some on Tuesday (29 June) with a use by date of 29 July. We have however, left some in the fridge for a couple of weeks past the use by date and found it to be perfectly wholesome, possibly partly due maybe to keeping our fridge at 1-2 degrees, measured by thermometer, rather than indicated by fridge temperature control.

6 litres of milk?! Moo! Also wouldn't it make more sense to try something like avocados which are an excellent source of good cholesterol?

Will need to keep that brand in mind, hopefully it's not too much dearer than the Woolies/Coles own brand milk.

-KangarooFlyer88