I spent just £12 on a £52 Asda shop after spotting hidden app labels – here’s how you can save too
ONE savvy shopper has managed to bag a £52 Asda shop for just £12 after spotting hidden labels.
It meant to lucky customer saved a whopping £40 on their food bill.
An Asda customer doing a weekly shop managed to bag their groceries for just £12 after spotting hidden labels on shelves.
The total should’ve come to £52.
The shopper saw Asda Reward labels next to products – a money-saving scheme you can only take advantage of if you have the supermarket’s app, encouraging the customer to download it.
If a product has a little yellow star attached to the price tag, it means you can earn points on your app after buying it, which can then be transferred into cash known as Asda Pounds.
This will in turn save you money off your shopping.
After building up enough points in your cash pot, you can transfer those points into a voucher to help you save.
Shoppers can transfer their cash pot into vouchers in increments of £5 – so, £5, £10, £15 and all the way up to £100.
The shopper told YorkshireLive: “After I downloaded the app I noticed the ‘Star Products’ labels on various shelves. Sometimes they were hidden, for example an ‘out of stock’ label might be covering up a product label if it hadn’t been changed by a member of staff.
“Other times, I’d be stood weighing up whether to buy one product or the other when I would check the app and realise that one of them was offering credit back on the purchase.”
They continued: “For instance I was trying to buy some cola cans and they had £2.50 back on Coke Zero, but weren’t offering anything on Pepsi despite being a similar price per can.
“So I ditched the Pepsi and bought just under £30 worth of Coke Zero, which instantly gave me £7.50 in my wallet.”
The shopper ended up collecting £40 in credit over the space of two or three shops, and subsequently used it to spend just £12.98 on a shop worth £52.
But don’t worry if your grocery bill doesn’t match the value of your voucher – it’ll stay on your account until you can use it.
Just note you’ll need to use it within 30 days of acquiring it. It’ll expire after that point.
And you can’t use one voucher more than once – so your shop will either have to come to exactly £100, or more than £100.
You have six months to transfer your cashpot into vouchers.
How do I sign up?
After downloading the app from the App Store or Google Play, you’ll need to set up an account.
It shouldn’t take long – you’ll just need to fill in your name, an email address and a couple other swift details. It’s also free to do.
Then, you can earn cash rewards known as Asda Pounds when shopping in store and online.
You’ll just need to scan the barcode on the app at the checkout. If you’re shopping online, just make sure you’re logged into your account, and then browse as normal.
But, remember, it’s only certain ‘star products’ which can be scanned by your app.
But you can also complete missions or use the Asda money credit card – all the information will be on the homepage when you open the app.
You also need to spend a fair amount to get cash back – for example, customers might need to do a £50 shop to earn £1.50 in points.
Just make sure you read instructions carefully.
And remember to always shop around for other deals – you never know what else you’re missing out on.
There are plenty of comparison sites like Trolley.co.uk to compared thousands of price tags between the top supermarkets.
There’s also the Latest Deals app and Google Shopping which will also do the trick.
Always factor in added delivery costs too if you order shopping from online.
Other ways to save when shopping
Keep an eye out for other loyalty schemes – it’s not just Asda offering ways to get money off your bill.
For example, Tesco has its Clubcard scheme which lets you buy selected products at a discounted rate.
You’ll see yellow tags under prices where there is a subsequent Clubcard price.
And each time you spend £1 in store and online, you get one point when you scan your card or app.
You also get one point for every £2 spent on fuel.
One point equals 1p, so 150 points gets you £1.50, for example.
You’ll need a minimum of 150 points to request a voucher.
Again, you need an account to request a Clubcard, but it’s also free to do and should be pretty easy.
You should also look out for other apps where surplus food is being sold for a discounted price or even for nothing.
For example, App Olio lists food nearing its sell-by date, available for free.
You can often get bread, fruit and veg, pastries and more.
For App Olio you don’t pick up the food directly from the store but collect it from an Olio volunteer, but this will differ per app.
You can also try Too Good To Go which offers food from big chains like including Greggs, Burger King, Morrisons and M&S.
You can buy a “magic bag” of food through the app for around £3 and then pick it up directly from the store. You don’t know what’s inside though, so you can’t guarantee you’ll have what you need.
And there are always other grants available through the Household Support Fund, for instance, which ends this month.
It’s where local councils dish out their share from a massive £421million government pot to local residents – each council decides what it’s for and who needs it.
Many offer food vouchers to cash-tight families, but it’s best to get in touch with your local council to see what’s on offer and if you’re eligible.
If you don’t know who your local council is, you can use the council checker on the government website to find out.
Just pop in your post code and the searcher will do the rest.