{"id":183359,"date":"2024-11-27T08:24:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T08:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/loyalty-cards-offer-genuine-savings-says-watchdog\/"},"modified":"2024-11-27T08:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T08:24:25","slug":"loyalty-cards-offer-genuine-savings-says-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/27\/loyalty-cards-offer-genuine-savings-says-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Loyalty cards offer genuine savings, says watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/fdb1\/live\/87a9e390-ac94-11ef-876e-1195952be83c.png?fit=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Loyalty cards offer genuine savings, says watchdog\" title=\"Loyalty cards offer genuine savings, says watchdog\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Supermarket loyalty cards do offer genuine savings, the UK&#8217;s competition watchdog has found, but it said people should still shop around.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it examined 50,000 products on loyalty price promotions across Tesco, Sainsbury&#8217;s, Morrisons, Co-op and Waitrose. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It found &#8220;very little evidence&#8221; that supermarkets were inflating their &#8220;usual&#8221; prices to make promotions look like a better deal.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">But it said that while the discounts were legitimate, its review &#8220;has shown that loyalty prices aren\u2019t always the cheapest option, so shopping around is still key&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cew2ejj7lkvo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supermarket loyalty cards do offer genuine savings, the UK&#8217;s competition watchdog has found, but it said people should still shop around. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it examined 50,000 products on loyalty price promotions across Tesco, Sainsbury&#8217;s, Morrisons, Co-op and Waitrose. It found &#8220;very little evidence&#8221; that supermarkets were inflating their &#8220;usual&#8221; prices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/fdb1\/live\/87a9e390-ac94-11ef-876e-1195952be83c.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[9534,32787,22350,3626,15134,7240],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183361,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183359\/revisions\/183361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}