Shop and save vouchers are a promotion and Dunnes can set whatever conditions they want for promotions they run. They should not be imposing conditions on how people spend the voucher for their money.
Your queue twice solution is just nonsense.
I brought my four bottles with the logo on them. The machine only recognised one of them. I brought my voucher to customer service where the barcode reader then refused to scan it. "Barcode not recognised". So aside from the added time, I am down 60 cent on just 4 bottles.
I got a crate of Guinness cans the other day. The cans all have the logo on them but, they also have the floating widget in the can. For those not in the know, the floating widget is a small plastic ball inside the aluminium can. I suspect, after charging me 1.80 extra for the 12 cans, that they wont be accepted because of the plastic ball. I will report back my findings. If they are not accepted, then the Guinness has basically just gone up by almost 2 euros.
Same as their shop and save vouchers cannot be used except for groceries.
You can however get the cash value of the DRS voucher off them and then spend it in any part of the shop that you want to.
I don't know how you lost money but at least you have a fighting chance of getting the deposit back if you use the RVM.
So true but the story has moved on.
My aim is to recover as much of any deposit paid as possible.
The green bin won't help me.
We had a recycling facility outside our doors
Same, not seem one person using one yet, that’s a lot of cans and plastic bottles being stored (or thrown in a hedge, or thrown in the rubbish bin and to hell with the tax)
My experience so far has left me out of pocket either way.
Defies logic. Dunnes issue you a voucher to reclaim your own money but tell you that you are only allowed spend it in one half of their store.
You can ask but it looks like the manual return process is quite different. Bottles/cans have to be stored in a tagged bag in the manual return process. If Tesco aren't set up for a manual return system I don't think they have to offer it. The Re-turn site is very helpful in this regard.
Looks like they're abdicating responsibility, surprise surprise.
My preference would be to let them build up to say €50 rather than getting €2 off here and there.
You are right, everyone doesn't have a garage or even a shed to store empties.
But the DRS scheme is here and putting them in the green bin will cost you money.
There's no one size fits all solution so everyone needs to figure out their best option.
It may be a avoiding cans or plastic bottles as much as possible or coming up with storage and handling methods that suit their personal situation.
Ignoring DRS and carrying on as before will just leave consumers out of pocket.
I'm sure the staff will be delighted at being asked to handle customers empties manually.
Better off just redeeming it at the same time as you bring your cans to be recycled. What's the point in taking a voucher away, having to keep track of it, and then using it somewhere else.
Not everyone has a garage to store empties in.
My empties are crushed and stored in my green bin.
Id have more respect for Re-Turn if the website homepage had the scheme logo and in big lettering below:
"Just pay the deposits will ye or you can work for us for free. You might get all your own money back if you're lucky. Probably not though.
P.S. feck off"
At least then there'd be a bit of honesty about it instead of the insulting "its all for the environment" pretense.
First off I'm notoriously thrifty so I don't leave much in the end of the cans.
Especially since MUP the contents have become too expensive to waste 🙂.
I've been storing empty cans in the garage since forever.
I keep them there beside the glass bottles because they all go to the civic amenity centre bins about every two months.
Never had a pest problem and never had to call Rentokill 🙂
Those machines are definitely not wheelchair accessible.
It would be a good question to ask Re-Turn, if such limitations on vouchers are allowed - also if vouchers are restricted to use in specific branches. (Someone posted earlier about an Aldi refusing to accept a voucher from a different branch of Aldi).
They have a chat function and when I used it they answered very quickly.
As I see it, if its supposed to be your own money you're getting back, there shouldn't be any limits imposed on the use of the vouchers like this.
I noticed a photo of a voucher posted by someone posted above, stated "subject to the terms and conditions of the Dunnes Stores deposit return scheme"
I thought it was the Deposit Return scheme. Not the Dunnes Stores Deposit Return Scheme.
Are we supposed to know if they are different for every supermarket, Dunnes, Aldi, Lidl, Supervalu, etc?
As they say in Arrested Development.. thats how you get ants.
I had thoughts along similar lines but if you havent rinsed them wont they be a bit smelly and might attract wasps and other pests?
If you see this again and you're bothered you could ask them to perform a manual return. If they refuse you can complain to the council. The law says they must accept the containers and pay out immediately, it says nothing about machines, working or not. The fact the retailer chose to use machines and they're not working isn't your problem.
Some of our drinking water supplies are in a dreadful state and that problem needs to be sorted out asap.
The 5 litre bottles that a lot of people in the affected areas use do not have a deposit and can be recycled in the green bin.
I have yet to buy a bottle with a barcode, I buy packs of sparking water regularly. So haven’t had cause to attempt to use scheme yet. The shop I visit regularly enough with an RVM is Aldi in Nutgrove, have yet to see one person attempting to use the machine. However when I was queueing at the checkout I heard someone trying to get a voucher redeemed, it would not scan, poor lad at checkout beleaguered but customer said “not to worry, don’t want to hold up queue”.
If you get a voucher for say Dunnes, can it be redeemed in any Dunnes or has it to be the Dunnes you returned the bottles to?
I'd recommend regular prostate exams.
Actually I'll tell you another way it's bad for environment, I have storage for glass bottles under sink aswell as for recycling and brown bin. Once it's full bring it to bottle bank.
But now I've had to divide it in half to fit in plastic bottles, because remember now they cant be damaged, so I'll be going to bottle bank twice as often now as it will fill up quicker, because of course the geniuses don't have bottle banks beside these new machines.
So that's another extra drive, but sure isn't this new scheme just great for the environment!!!!!
Of course I could be just like other people and F**k everything in my black bin and sure then I wouldn't need any bins under my sink just the black bin!
Just posting this before someone comes in with the lecture about not using bottled water, yeah tell that to everyone affected in this article and that's only one issue, that's before you take into account all the areas with boil notices in place.
Highly doubtful
Might just alter people's behavior
Yeah, I recycled everything in my green bin before this but if I rocked up after dragging the empties there and the machine not working they would be going in the bin and then not getting recycled.
What's the point of that!
Oh that's before as most people have mentioned out bin charges will probably go up and bin companies not getting valuable aluminium anymore.
So pay more for our bins, more for our bottled water etc and for what!
Described on radio this morning as "people fighting with machines" then furiously dumping the rejected containers somewhere else. Another fiasco in the making.
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