SAINSBURY’S has made another big change to its loyalty card in a bid to take on major rival Tesco.
One of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains has added hundreds more products to its Nectar Prices including fresh fruit and veg.
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Meanwhile, shoppers can pick up discounted prices on food-to-go items and ready meals.
The latest roll out means 18million customers can now get discounts on over 2,800 products.
Shoppers with a Nectar Card can now bag own-brand strawberries for £1.75 instead of £2.25.
Meanwhile, easy peeler oranges are £1 instead of £1.35 and Taste the Difference Vittoria cherry vine tomatoes are £1.75, down from £2.25.
The discounts have been extended to ready meals including Wasabi Chicken Katsu Curry which is £3.75 instead of £4.25.
Shoppers can pick up Charlie Bigham’s Lasagne for £7 instead of £9.50 too.
Here is a selection of some of the products and their new Nectar Card prices:
- Taste the Difference Vittoria Cherry Vine Tomatoes 250g – usual price £2.25, Nectar price £1.75
- by Sainsbury’s Strawberries 400g – usual price £2.25, Nectar price £1.75
- by Sainsbury’s Medium Ripe & Ready Avocados x2 – usual price £1.60, Nectar price £1.20
- by Sainsbury’s Easy Peelers – usual price £1.35, Nectar price £1
- by Sainsbury’s Best of British apples – usual price £1.70, Nectar price 85p
- Taste the Difference Jersey Royal Potatoes – usual price £3, Nectar price £1.50
- Wasabi Chicken Katsu Curry with Rice 450g – usual price £4.25, Nectar price £3.75
- Charlie Bigham’s Lasagne 690g – usual price £9.50, Nectar price £7
- by Sainsbury’s Chicken Tikka Masala 400g – usual price £4.25, Nectar price £3.75
- by Stonebaked Margherita Pizza 265g – usual price £3.50, Nectar price £1.75
- Taste the Difference Fish Pie 400g – usual price £4.25, Nectar price £3.75
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Remember, it’s always worth shopping around to make sure you’re getting the best price on a product.
You can use websites such as trolley.co.uk which let you compare thousands of products across a number of retailers.
It does go off online prices though so won’t reflect what you’ll pay in-store.
You can also use the Google Shopping tab to trawl the internet for the same product and see how prices compare to other retailers.
We checked out a few of the Nectar Price items to see how they compare to other retailers.
Of course, a lot of the new Nectar Price additions are on own-brand products so it’s hard to compare those.
But we checked out some of the branded products to see how they shaped up.
Sainsbury’s shoppers can get the Wasabi Home Bento BBQ Beef with Yakisoba Noodles 400g for £3.75 while Tesco has it for £4.25, 50p more expensive.
Meanwhile, the Charlie Bigham’s Lasange 690g is £7 with a Sainsbury’s Nectar Card and £8.50 on the Tesco Clubcard.
The Pukka cheese and leek potato pie 213g is now £1.50 with a Nectar Card, making it the same price as Morrisons.
Tesco and Asda have the same product on sale for £2 – 50p more expensive.
How does the Nectar Card work?
Sainsbury’s has been part of the Nectar scheme since 2002, buying out Nectar in 2018.
Under the scheme, customers collect points on qualifying purchases, with £1 equalling one point.
You also get one point for every £1 spent on fuel bought at Sainsbury’s petrol stations.
You can collect points shopping at Sainsbury’s, Sainsbury’s Bank, Sainsbury’s Energy, Esso, Expedia, eBay and hundreds of other partners.
You just have to register on the app and swipe it every time you shop and the points are added to your account.
Your points can then be used to get money off future Sainsbury’s shops or at one of its partners.
Each point is effectively worth 0.5p, meaning you need 500 points to get £2.50 off.
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Sainsbury’s said shoppers with a Nectar Card have saved on average £3.20 per shop since Nectar Prices launched in April.
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