The brilliant Boots Advantage card (Boots Advantage Card)

Member Name: joannan

Product:	Boots Advantage Card
Date:	13/11/09 (98 review reads)
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Advantages: A great way to save for something special.

Disadvantages: Non at all!

Boots advantage card is the most generous reward/loyalty card on the market I believe.


What is it?

Every time you shop in Boots the chemist, you are asked whther you have an advantage card. It is a totally free to join reward scheme. It looks like a chip and pin credit card. It is available to pick up in most larger Boots stores and come on a leaflet explaing the card with a tear of slip that you can register your card details to get sent information and special offers and indeed discount coupons and extra reward points with certain purchases.

So, every £1.00 you spend instore you receive 4 points, the equivelent to 4p.

You can however boost this in many ways. I am a member of the Boots mother and baby club, so I receive double points in certain products like Avent and Johnson and Johnson to name a couple. However the very best way to boost those points is to look out for the reward point machine dotted around larger Boots stores. They look like payment machines, they are generally pink. You pop your card in, and gives you several options like, your deals, baby products etc. I always click on 'show all offers'. The offers vary. You can get an extra 50-300 (50p-£3.00) in reward points for buying certain products. Always different, sometime newly launched items from premium cosmetics to own brand shampoo for instance. But also, the have additional points for spending a certain amount. For instance, the last time I shopped, I popped my card in the machine, and was offered an extra 350 points if I spent £25.00 instore in one transaction. It is easy to spend this in Boots, especially if you have small children in nappies or simply need to stock up on cosmetic basics. On this particular day they had 3 for 2 on ALL non premium brand cosmetics. Brilliant!!!!


I couple of years ago, I was in Boots in Bluewater shopping centre in Essex and they had a special promotion on after 4pm, that every £50 spent instore, you got 1000 reward points!!!! Thats £10!!!! Brilliant. We spent over £150 and bought every single Christmas present we could.


How and where can you spend the points?

All points need to be redeemed instore or at Boots.com. You have to have enough point on your card to buy an item outright. For instance, if you want a particular shampoo and it cost £4.50, you would need to have 450 advantage card points. This can be redeemed at the till if you have enough points.

I save up my points in order to treat myself you something extravegant like perfume. I end up with a nice £60 bottle once or twice a year! You can redeme them for anything, even a sandwich meal deal for lunch if you have no money!!!

Get one, its fantastic.

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