Woolworths brings back Qantas frequent flyer points for shoppers

Finally some good news. I was getting ready to ditch the Woolworths Rewards card at the end of the month. 

So it seems you might have the choice of using the $10 in rewards against your next shop or have it convert into 870 QFF?

Is this a good deal?

Previous if you spent $100 as Woolies and had your QFF card linked you earned 1 point over the $30 level, so 70 points.

The new rumoured deal would require a spend on the orange ticket items to accumulate the reward dollars. Last week I spent $150 on a wide range of products and earned zero reward dollars - there weren't many orange ticketed products and those around weren't the products I buy!

So the question will be how much will an average spend be required in order to earn sufficient reward dollars that are on an equal footing to the current program?

Is this a gool deal for QFF members? Is a better deal?

It will be a choice of $10 off or 870 QF points via WoW$ earn on the orange tickets. They'll be sending out email offers where you can pick between QFF earn or WoW$.

From the info sent to stores early this morning, the email offers will start early next year while the $10 convert to 870 QF points will start towards the middle of next year.

Will have to see if the press release from QF and Woolworths tomorrow give any more info.

So... If we value QFF points @ 3c, which sounds about right, then 870 points are $26, a lot more than $10 off.

Give them some time. When Woolies first introduced the special pricing for rewards members there was hardly any products. By the end of that year there were plenty. They essentially pressed reset on the program when they introduced the Woolies dollars and scrapped QFF. Give them some time to mature their program a bit. In the short time it's been since the reset I've seen better offers popping up in my emails as time has gone on.

That said, if they manage to put together a tie up with Velocity, I would be totally up for that!

Well this seems to be more "program on the run"  Glad the backlash was sufficient to force them back to QF's table.  If, however, the program remains you only earn on certain items then I don't think it will be enough for me to do more than cherry pick a few items from there each week.

I unsubscibed from EDR emails a month ago, when I put their new cards in the post box marked return to sender. I for one am not the least bit interested in looking for the orange stickers,

Just to make it less transparent to confuse people even more.

This is a step in the right direction. Hopefully Woolworths will add more orange tickets so that Woolworths dollars/QFF points can be earned quickly.

Too little too late we've now moved to Coles, its hard to believe how a great company like Woolies can alienate so many loyal customers and keeps shooting it itself in the foot AKA with Masters..

Now its buy selected items to get rewards, simply ridiculous.

R.I.P.

The orange ticket applies to mostly (from observation) full priced ticket. It's another version of the Special (yellow tickets) which gives you discount on the full price items. The orange ticket is pretty much a deferred amount where you can apply the accrued (orange ticket amount) to apply on some other purchases. This is where Woolworths make their profits from full priced items. If you don't end up spending the Woolworths Dollars, pretty much they've got your hard earned cash already.

If you're like me, only buy items with Special (yellow) tickets, Woolworths Dollars isn't really gonna be working in your favour.

Too little, too late i think... they'll need to offer some major benefits other than their $10 into 870 FF points...  The problem with this scheme is that it is no gaurantee that you will get $10... like many have pointed out, they have done lots of shopping and got basically no Woolworths points in return... As a consumer, you will want to know that when you spend, you get rewards... not only spend what the  store wants you to spend on... That was why the old scheme was much better.  You knew if you spent more than $30 dollars in store, every dollar after that was 1 point...  Best of Luck to Woolies, but i dont think they'll recover from this botched campaign...

I reckon the Woollies marketing genius who came up with this short lived " ditch Qantas FF points" idea is probably being transferred to Galagambone store doing night time shelf stacking!  Great timing pre Festive Season!

We do not get the Wollies deal re Qantas points  in Tasmania   Why !!

Seems a very complicated system they have introduced. More terms and conditions than religion!

So only selected products will be entitled to rewards. Example:  its possible 2L of milk is on the list but if I pick up A2 or skim, I may not be entitled? Or coles white bread is on the list but not multi grain or wholemeal? I would have to go in with the list updated that day to get rewards points?

Always prefer the motto - keep it simple.

Think I'll stick with Virgin and BP, simple - put fuel in, pick up a few things swipt card, know how many points.

Not interested sorry WW.  When you dropped the points months back I took the plunge and became an Aldi customer with the ocassional pop-in to Coles for the random items that Aldi don't sell.  I won't return to WW out of principal and I make no apologies. I get petrol from BP now and that contributes to my Virgin points.

Probably too late Woolies...You annoyed so many customers.

Besides, I dont actually think that many people care that much about the frequent flyer points, it's actually the point that Woolworths dictates what products you can earn points from...

Too little too late WW. Have lost my business.

Shop at Aldi. Save heaps. Use the savings to buy QFF points. 

woolworths appear to have failed basic marketing. 

a "loyalty" program should have the feature of more business more rewards.   flybuys seems to fit that bill; the old ww everyday program basically fit (after 30 dollar hurdle).

the new program disconnects.   find a likely-full-priced orange item, then instead of taking a discount now, either collect it later on another shop or accept it in conversion to qff points at 1.something cents per.    since most people buy their groceries with their own money, there is no incentive to pay a higher price just to collect some reward.