Big changes are taking place – again – for Blue Light Card discount holders who use their discount as part of Asda Rewards.
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Asda and Blue Light Card have once again overhauled the discount scheme for shoppers.
In June 2023, Blue Light Card holders were no longer be able to 10% back on the entire shop. But, could still earn Asda Rewards (as usual) and take part in their Missions etc.
However, they are updating the terms of the scheme again.
From 25 April 2024, they are reducing the cashpot rewards down to just 5%.
While it’s disappointing, it’s better than nothing, I suppose….
Changes to Asda Blue Light Card discount
The discount scheme has not been running long, and now Asda and Blue Light Card are restricting how you get your discount.
They excluded non-fresh items from 15 June 2023, and now they are lowering the cashpot.
As part of “ongoing evolution,” Asda has announced that Blue Light Card holders will only receive a 5% Cashpot benefit on all fresh products across their stores.
You cannot get the 5% Cashpot benefit on anything else (other than general offers run for all Asda Rewards users).
Like other Asda Rewards users, you can still earn Asda Pounds on non-fresh food, clothing, health and beauty, household, entertainment, and homeware products.
What is included in “fresh food”?
Asda classes fresh food as:
Fresh meat
Cooked meat
Fresh fish
Fruit and vegetables
Fresh fruit juice and smoothies
Dairy and bakery
Anything else will be excluded from the offer.
Take a look at a huge Blue Light Card discounts list.
What items are excluded?
The following product lines are excluded from the discount:
All Just Essentials products, alcohol, Asda Online Groceries, Food to Go, ready meals including fresh pizzas, fresh dips, fresh pies, Rotisserie Counters, frozen, non-fresh food items, health and beauty, baby, toys, household including pet and laundry, entertainment, George/George.com including all clothing, shoes and accessories and homeware and outdoor products, plants & flowers, Asda Tyres, fuel, tobacco, lottery products including instant tickets, gift vouchers & cards, infant/formula milk, cash-back, fireworks, photo printing, saver stamps, postage stamps, ‘Top-Up’ mobile phone cards, all financial services products and insurances, pharmacy & separate concessions.
From 25 April 2024, Food to Go, ready meals, and flowers have been added to the excluded list.
Will it change again?
It’s disappointing as the discount has not long been running again for BLC/Asda shoppers.
However, hopefully, fresh foods make up most of a shop, so it might not have too significant an impact.
But it does feel quite restricted!
I guess the discount scheme will continue to “evolve”, depending on how much money they lose!
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Susan Sey says
I think it’s a bit of a con. Yes, a bit of cashback is better than nothing but ASDA do need to clarify further what exactly you are getting your bluelight cashback discount on – I discovered last week it all depends on what Asda are classing as ready meals, ie, pizza from the fresh pizza counter is not classed as a ready meal despite it being ready just to put in an oven so no bluecard cashback on the pizza I bought. Same with bakery – majority of what you can buy from the bakery section apparently does not qualify either, I bought a pack of Asda’s pancakes which supposedly baked in store but no bluelight cashback on those either. Also discovered I got less cashback than I should have so phoned them, went through my purchases (hence the reason how I know about what they are classing as ready meals and bakery) and got an addition 79p added on to my ASDA Rewards. So make sure you total up and check you got what you should have earned on your ASDA Rewards cashpot.
Karen Small says
As soon as Asda rewards came in prices on the majority of products increased dramatically to the extent I rarely shop at Asda now. I can’t see how you can get any discount now for blue light holders. Spent almost £200 last week. Including new glasses at the opticians got a whopping £1.50 in cash pot. Certainly not worth going out of my way to shop there anymore.
Stephen McKeown says
I’m done with Asda. 5% cashback on a tiny range of food is pretty poor. I’m switching to Lidl.
Jeannie says
I think it will be back to Tesco for me!
Susan Sey says
Very disappointing ASDA reducing the cashpot to 5% on the BLC and that the ready meals been removed completed from the BLC. As I live on my own I don’t buy a lot of “fresh” meat, also ASDA does not clarify what they class as “bakery” for the BLC – I’ve discovery in the past that the majority of what is in the bakery section does not qualify for the BLC. I won’t be renewing my BLC when the time comes.
Susan Sey says
Very disappointing ASDA are reducing BLC cashpot to 5% and also removing ready meals completely. I live on my own so don’t buy a lot of what is classed as “fresh” meat. ASDA also need to clarify what they do class as “bakery” under the BLC – I have discovered in the past that most of their bakery section does NOT qualify. I wouldn’t be suprised if they stop the BLC colaboration altogether in the near future. Not worth paying to renewing my BLC when the time comes now as I only use it for ASDA.