Everyday Rewards Targeted Offers

[andye]

Just received


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That's a pretty juicy offer-is it in a single spend or coughulative?

 

[amaroo]

That's a pretty juicy offer-is it in a single spend or coughulative?

Multi shop...

Spend at least $300 in one or more transactions at a participating Woolworths supermarket during each of the designated weeks of the promotion and scan your registered Woolworths Rewards card at the checkout to earn 10200 bonus Woolworths points that week.

 

[rainbowgirl]

Thanks for the updated table RAM. It appears that the percentage returns for the current 2 week offers range between 10% and 20%. Mine is somewhere in the middle at 14%.

I don't usually get very good returns on my offers as my card gets used on a regular basis even when there are no targeted offers available. Hopefully when the next round of offers comes out, one of the other family members will be targeted and we'll get a better percentage return as well as a target which is easier to reach.

 

[The Flying Brick]

I feel like Woolies are trying to dupe me on this one. Spend $360 to get 5600 points is a very poor offer - haven't even bothered activating this one.

My 'offer' is for far less points and higher spend then pretty much everything else on this thread. :evil::evil::evil:

Back to Coles for me for the next fortnight at least.

 

[RAM]

I feel like Woolies are trying to dupe me on this one. Spend $360 to get 5600 points is a very poor offer - haven't even bothered activating this one.

My 'offer' is for far less points and higher spend then pretty much everything else on this thread. :evil::evil::evil:

Back to Coles for me for the next fortnight at least.

Congratulations - you have by far the worst offer just 16 points per $ spend.

Are you a VERY regular W shopper? Do you scan the card every time? What would your normal WEEKLY not per visit spend be?

Would you be using a W branded credit card per chance? That way W would get to know (assume) that you use the card for all shopping visits not just W (when you should be going via cashrewards to get 5% off W gcs...).

You learn the most about algorithms by the extremes rather than the middle - it illustrates what is weighted the most within the calculations used to generate the offers.

 

[rainbowgirl]

Congratulations - you have by far the worst offer just 16 points per $ spend.

Are you a VERY regular W shopper? Do you scan the card every time? What would your normal WEEKLY not per visit spend be?

Would you be using a W branded credit card per chance? That way W would get to know (assume) that you use the card for all shopping visits not just W (when you should be going via cashrewards to get 5% off W gcs...).

You learn the most about algorithms by the extremes rather than the middle - it illustrates what is weighted the most within the calculations used to generate the offers.

That mucks up my theory of a range between 10% and 20% return. I think the offer mentioned is only an 8% return.

 

[RAM]

It would be very helpful to get as much (not TOO personal) info about the normal spending patterns the people highlighted in red or blue have, as well as whether or not they use either a W branded cc or use W gcs.

For example - shop 3 or 4 times a week, 3 being smallish (less than $X) and one big shop on a Xday for around $Y, pay using W egcs (W CC, cash, other cc).

It is strongly suspected that if you use the same W gc or egc across family accounts (split transaction per visit) that the transactions are 'notionally' linked despite using different EDR/points cards.

 

[rainbowgirl]

I can understand that Woolworths track people that have their credit cards but I don't think they track across the 5% off gift cards. If they did this, the targets for all our family members would be about the same. The targets I get on my card are usually between $70 and $130 but the other cards never get targets above $50. I use the same RACV discounted gift cards for each family member.

I use the $100 value gift cards. If I make 2 or 3 transactions in the one week then I use the same discounted gift card but usually each gift card would only be used on my Woolworths Rewards card. I always use my discounted gift cards at the petrol stations(using my WR card) and at Big W(of course the Big W transactions don't get tracked now that they are no longer a partner of the loyalty scheme).

 

[The Flying Brick]

Thanks for the congrats RAM, this is not really a prize that I want to claim!

Of late I've been shopping at Coles for a 4 week 10,000 point Fly buys offer and I don't have a WW credit card.
When I do shop at Woolies the spend comes in around $110 a week and haven't used my card since early August (for a QF points offer at the time).

Lucky that I am on AFF to check as I am sure there will be many who could (and will) be sucked in by such lowball offers. :-|

 

[RAM]

I can understand that Woolworths track people that have their credit cards but I don't think they track across the 5% off gift cards. If they did this, the targets for all our family members would be about the same. The targets I get on my card are usually between $70 and $130 but the other cards never get targets above $50. I use the same RACV discounted gift cards for each family member.

I use the $100 value gift cards. If I make 2 or 3 transactions in the one week then I use the same discounted gift card but usually each gift card would only be used on my Woolworths Rewards card. I always use my Woolworths Reward card at the petrol station and at Big W(of course the Big W transactions don't get tracked now that they are no longer a partner of the loyalty scheme).

Not all people buy the gcs at 5% off (one born every minute).

W is not totally stupid. Ratio of purchasing across 'now linked by W' accounts is calculated so it does not tip you off that you have been detected trying to game the system.

I suspect that at first it flags a possible gaming of accounts (so W cc a dead give way, other cc somewhat of a giveaway) so if someone consistently splits a spend across two accounts (time stamp on same register goes to W big data) then the algorithm CAN adjust accordingly.

Looking at how poorly the EDR worked (or didn't) makes me suspect that their are multiple contributors/maintainers of the data system and it is not documented well if at all.

True story - a bank got 4 staff to model creating an online & IVR-only 'new bank operation'. Each created their own 'modules' of a giant excel spreadsheet which had dozens of worksheets within it. All were subsequently cross-linked. Not one of the staff documented what variables were called/represented. So when the linking of the different component worksheets occurred - nobody realised that they had used the same variable identifiers for totally different inputs.

One lady, had a VERY BAD habit, she liked to tap on a keyboard absentmindedly while talking on the phone.

I found several dozen cells within the 260Mb spreadsheet that had the same combination of letters within them. Trouble was they were supposed to contain formulas. Many of the calculations were in hidden cells and so you could not see either the formulae (or the gibberish) and the way it was set up if the answer was outside a range - it was then made zero.

Three months after they got me in the bank was shut down and the company lost over $250 million.

Where it REALLY gets scary (in a Twilight Zone way) - the keyboard tapping lady applied for a job some years later where I was. After a few questions I identified her (without saying to her face) who exactly she was.

I told the GM not to hire her, he liked her and ignored my recommendation. Some months later I moved to a new company.

Within a year that area got shut down...

Coincidence?

 

[Dr Ralph]

For those using the BWS offers of spend $40 get $1000 bonus points, I received the following response from Woolworths when some of my bonuses posted immediately but other failed to post:

'Thanks for contacting Woolworths Rewards regarding your Woolworths Rewards Points.
I can confirm with you that you will receive your Woolworths Rewards Points 10 business days after your purchase was made with BWS.'

Needless to say I'll be keeping a close on on this.

 

[Jurahn]

Very nice!

Woolies not quite as generous with me by comparison:

Spend $50 each week for next two weeks receive 2000 bonus points.

Very go-hum.

They're not so generous with me either - my offer is spend $60 each week for the next 2 weeks, receive 2400 bonus points (total) - AND the $60 has to be in a single shop each time.

 

[Ozgirl]

They're not so generous with me either - my offer is spend $60 each week for the next 2 weeks, receive 2400 bonus points (total) - AND the $60 has to be in a single shop each time.

I got the exact same offer...

$60 is a ok spend for us a week. I have a woolies across the road from work and do incidental shops several times a week.

They lost most of my shoping during the WWD debarcle, and i stopped scaning on those incidental spends and mixed up payment options. Have been scanning every shop since the relaunch.

Example of an 'incidental' shop. Today $8

 

[Jurahn]

I got the exact same offer...

$60 is a ok spend for us a week. I have a woolies across the road from work and do incidental shops several times a week.

They lost most of my shoping during the WWD debarcle, and i stopped scaning on those incidental spends and mixed up payment options. Have been scanning every shop since the relaunch.

Example of an 'incidental' shop. Today $8

I'm exactly the same - I'd probably spend between $40-$60 a week at Woolworths, but rarely ever in the one shop. We have a PO Box which I check daily, so I drop in at the Woolworths at that shopping centre for "incidentals". I'd rarely spend $20 in a single shop.

I also stopped scanning on any of those small spends, and same as you, have been scanning every shop since the relaunch, so rather perplexed to get a "spend $60 per week, but you have to do it in one shop" offer.

 

[coyote25]

Very nice!

Woolies not quite as generous with me by comparison:

Spend $50 each week for next two weeks receive 2000 bonus points.

Very go-hum.

Well you are doing better than my offer $50 each week for 1,600 bonus points. Would like one of the better earn rates being mentioned in this thread.

 

[Lendav Orav]

My offer for the next two weeks:spend $155 each week to get 6200 points per week. Pretty generous!

 

[JohnK]

And for the most ridiculous offer this week

Mum - spend $270/week for 2 weeks to receive 5,800 points/week

Woolworths must have included a few stupid emails in the promotion? No thanks.

 

[rainbowgirl]

I've just completed week 2 of the 2 week promotion. I'm hoping the bonus points will appear next week in my account.

I liked the fact that I could use multiple transactions to qualify for the offers but it's annoying having to wait for the points.

I didn't get any updates on my receipts as to how much I needed to spend before I reached my target for the week.

The only confirmation I got that Woolworths Rewards are aware of my offer is an email at the start of week 2 reminding me that I had 1 more week to go of the offer. The email didn't say anything about whether I qualified in the first week.

The good news is that all my transactions appear in my WR account so I won't need to submit any receipts in order to prove I qualified for the rewards.

 

[Dr Ralph]

I'm hoping the bonus points will appear next week in my account.

Don't count on it.

I'm on my 5th email trying to get points credited that should have already been credited. Each time a different person responds with different misinformation.

Seems 5 emails is what it takes to get the points that were earned:

"Thank you for contacting Woolworths Rewards regarding your missing Woolworths Points. We sincerely apologize for the delay caused in adding these points. We have now added the points for the following;
This is 2000 points in total and the credit will reflect after 24 hours. "

UPDATE: Seems persistence pays off:

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25 September
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Spend $100 for 2000 Woolworths points.

 

[whatmeworry]

Another voucher.