Christmas time is never cheap especially if you have plenty of family and friends to buy presents for. But the food we consume over the festivities can add an even bigger strain to that already heavily squeezed purse.
So when supermarkets like Morrisons offer a bonus scheme just for buying their weekly shop like normal, many of us jump at the chance. But let’s look back over the last three years that the Big Christmas Bonus scheme has been running to see how things have changed.
In 2011 to take advantage of a Christmas saving, Morrisons shoppers would receive a coupon each week when they spent over £40 on their food shop. Shoppers needed to collect just six out of eight coupons in order to receive a £25 voucher to spend in-store during the run up to Christmas.
Clearly Morrisons felt that was way too easy, so in 2012 they made it slightly harder. Shoppers that year needed to collect eight out of a possible eight coupons in order to receive a £30 voucher to spend between 17th and 30th December.
But this year, if you want to receive a money-off voucher at Christmas, you must start your weekly shop in Morrisons now! Shoppers will be required to collect nine out of a possible ten coupons, yes nine out of ten coupons from 7th October to 15th December. But for your increased loyalty you will be rewarded with a £40 voucher to spend on your Christmas shop between the 16th and 31st December.
But if you feel you can’t quite make the nine weeks, you can collect just four coupons between now and the 27th October to receive a £10 voucher off a £40 shop. But if you take advantage of this offer, you will not be eligible for the £40 off voucher in December.
It sounds easy to collect coupons each week, as most of us do a weekly shop anyway. But if you usually do your shop at the weekend and you can’t for one week, you may miss out on that week’s coupon. So being loyal to Morrisons may be harder than it seems.
Will you be participating in the Big Christmas Bonus? Or do you prefer to stick to the supermarket you know, regardless of a Christmas saving?
