Shell Coles/Reddy Express - "Buy 5 Coffees, Get 1 Free" Offer

l2argain on 29/10/2024 - 08:54
Last edited 29/10/2024 - 10:26 by 1 other user

Shell Coles/Reddy Express previously had a simple "buy 5 coffees, get 1 free" offer where you only needed to swipe your Flybuys card.

Now, they've changed it—after buying 5 coffees, you receive an email with a voucher. To redeem the free coffee, you have to save this email, and the barcode needs to be scanned.

The issue is my non-techy husband, who buys the coffees, used to just swipe the card. Now, I have to upload the voucher and send it to him, which feels like a total waste of time.

Does anyone else find this unnecessarily complicated? Why couldn’t it just apply automatically with the Flybuys swipe?

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  MS Paint on 29/10/2024 - 09:01

  +8

  🎻

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  EightImmortals on 29/10/2024 - 09:01

  +2

  Can I get a free energy drink with my 5 coffees instead?

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    jv on 29/10/2024 - 14:42

    No

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  geekcohen on 29/10/2024 - 09:05

  -1

  Welcome to the Digital Age! Unfortunately just the way it is, everything now via an app and being tracked. It is unfortunately for the non-techy people, unfortunately my Grandparents in their 80s also struggle when it comes to all of this stuff, but sadly it is the way thing are moving forward.

  I hope your non-techy husband doesn't have a 3G reliant phone………

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    jv on 29/10/2024 - 14:41

    +3

    everything now via an app and being tracked.

    That's how it was working before.

    I was using the app to track my purchases.

    Now you can't do that.

    They have gone backwards…

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  boomramada on 29/10/2024 - 10:36

  It's not hard to convert non-techie to techie. All they need is a bit of motivation. Just tell them you do these steps to get free coffee, and they will after swearing for a bit over the time

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  Clear on 29/10/2024 - 10:57

  That's frustrating. The surprise of a free coffee was always good.

  There had been rumours they were going to get rid of it.

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  m1108 on 29/10/2024 - 12:06

  I could be wrong, but I think this is only temporary while they do some technical backend stuff in regards to the rebranding of coles express to reddy express

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  netjock on 29/10/2024 - 13:18

  So you miss it and don't claim. They find all kinds of ways. It is like gift cards.

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  jv on 29/10/2024 - 14:40

  How do you know how many coffees you have left before the free one?

  The button to check is no longer in the app.

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    Clear on 29/10/2024 - 17:06

    Previously they'd be able tell you at the counter. We'll have to see if they still can.

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      jv on 29/10/2024 - 21:10

      Previously, it showed you in the Flybuys app how many you've had.

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        Clear on 29/10/2024 - 21:34

        Correct.