My initial reading of it was that Aldi were going to be fitting the DRS machines with a place to swipe a gift card. Seems not. A trick missed by Aldi, who already have outdoor DRS machines, on this occasion
Such a pity the pain in the hole element remains where you have to go to the checkout to load it from the voucher, should just be able to swipe at the deposit machine to load on to the card.
I'd estimate that a good 90% of people who partake in the scheme use the vouchers in store already as most return when going to the shop. Obviously not people on this thread who are furious with the scheme.
Re-Turn is a scam but theres still no need for shop staff to be made take the p!ss out of customers even more. You might get 1 in 10 or less that will stand their ground and demand the cash change. Thats good enough odds for the retailers.
Reminds me of a thread on here about delis not displaying prices and gouging like feck. Illegal but there was blind support for the shops. Posters frothing at the mouth saying "why not ask how much every individual item is when it's going on the sandwich / breakfast roll?" 😂. Wouldn't hear tell of the shop displaying what stuff costs. Maybe 1 in 100 will leave the food at the counter. Again profit overall.
Bought 2 dualsense controllers in Smyths last year. Guy on the till telling me I have a 6 month warranty. I knew it was bollix and he knew it was bollix but thats how it is. Most will go along with whatever the staff are made to say.
Surprised it's taken a year for a company to organise something like this tbh. Once your money is loaded in to the this you'll knly spend nd it in aldi, you'll never ask for cash back.
https://extra.ie/2025/02/04/news/aldi-ireland-deposit-return-scheme
I had to get a lighter so had to use the CS desk. I wonder if you used it in the self service would you get the money back? Might try it some day.
Some stores claim they were not aware of the manual return option. But like you said, it's the min wage workers that get the brunt of the anger. Every single staff of every shop I've spoken to (I fix retail stuff) hate it, and managers saying that complaints have quadrupled mainly because of the scam. Of course, they're not allowed officially state that, the suits won't allow it.
Did you have an idea they would try to give credit as change and go straight to the customer service desk to pay? Or did you go to a normal till, they tried to give you credit so then you went to cust service?
Its not like shops dont know the rules by now but once again its the staff suffering. Being made to act the bollix and be awkward with customers by higher ups.
Bit late replying to this, but no, they can't force credit. It can be used against your shopping or a cash refund. They're the only 2 official options, everything else is a store concocted idea. I was in a similar situation recently, the scam voucher had more than what I was buying in Dunnes, and I got the rest back in cash. But I did go to the customer service desk.
Remember folks, if the stores are doing something that makes it look like it's a benefit to you, it's not, it's a benefit to them. Re-Scam is ensuring stores are doing their own scams now too.
I always get cash if I am not buying anything in Dunnes. Customer service desk. I hand out vouchers she usually ask if I want cash to which I say yes thank you.
In that case I thought this was already available in Dunnes.
Lidl already have an app. They could allow card top ups without going to the till. First to do this and stop forcing customers in store / to the till will make more in good will from customers loading their card only.
From the article from the Sun:
The card can be topped up at Aldi checkouts, offering customers a convenient way to save money or plan for future purchases, while supporting sustainability in their daily shopping habits.
So it's not a DRS card, its just a standard Aldi savings card. You can now use your DRS paper voucher to top up the savings card.
Funnily enough there is zero mention of it on the Aldi website. I read about it in The Sun and the Irish mirror so it must be true, right??
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/aldi-ireland-launches-new-savings-34602281
Aldi's new DRS 'savings card' allows customers to load their vouchers onto the card and keep all their deposited returns in the same place. Available in all 163 Aldi stores across Ireland, the card can also be topped up at checkouts, making it easier for shoppers to save money while supporting the environment.
Anyone know if you will still have to take vouchers in store to load this card?
I went out to do a bit of tidying in the garden after the storm earlier. Discovered a bag full of cans. Some poor fecker must have been storing them in their yard but Éowyn decided to recycle them for him 🤣
There won't be any unilateral move to reduce plastic use in Ireland.
The change, while slow, is coming from Brussels.
EU Parliament backs clampdown on single-use plastic packaging | Reuters
https://search.app/zuoJGRxsPrnpZWoK7
- please dont talk to me about the "reduce" part of reduce, reuse, recycle. We dont like to talk about that.
- the scheme is so great and popular. This is why RVMs are full. 😂
- its a "producer responsibility" scheme. What a lie. How can this be true when it lets them continue as before producing as much plastic as they like.
- plastic is so great and convenient.
- you get 14% drop off in plastic every time you recycle it. So presumably thats where the "you can recycle plastic 7 times" comes from. Until now Id never heard Foley mention 7 times until you end up with nothing from the original amount. Jaysus.
- we need the voucher to get people into the store. "Thats how it is all over the world" more lies from Foley.
That was a car crash. He let a lot slip and the interviewer wasn't even that tough on him. Foley will be back to RTE after that.
The CEO for ReScam was on with Anton Savage earlier. I recommend everyone to listen back to him.
https://www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/re-turn-marks-one-year-in-operat-NWJjMzlmOTllYmI1YmU0NzJiMDhiOTIzZWRkOWYzMDk%3D
One interesting thing he said was, when Anton asked him about the reducing the reliance on plastic, he said "thats not within our scope". He also said "Plastic is really good".
I heard Darragh O’Brien was actually using all the aluminum he stole to make a statue of himself. When the Gardai arrived on a tip off he single handedly picked it up and ran away with it
Comical Ali was more believeable for his outlook on events………..
I'm alright jack is the attitude you've displayed throughout this thread with very little empathy for those less well off than you.
1 year since this stupid thing started. I only ever used it once and I did not even do whatever you do with the voucher. Think it might even be gone to the bin. Forgot all about it.
Short piece on DRS on the 6pm news.
IBAN could have been in on day one. But that would have been just too handy and this scam is all about making things as much of a pain in the hole as possible so a proportion of people just give up and not bother to get their money back.
Apparently Dunnes will give you a cash refund but only at the customer service desk.
That probably makes them compliant with the rules.
Dunnes Stores
https://search.app/UjC5u3La7aeJcEsS6
An increase from €1 to €1.25 is not massive. People throw away 25 cents. My bin charges have not gone up. Like price increases for drinks, this is just normal. Has been happeing for years. Nothing to do with DRS.
Here we go.
So these massive price increases have absolutely nothing to do with the loss of income from the loss of aluminium cans and plastic bottles from their collections?
Yourself and a couple more seem to have a total inability to apply logic to situations involving DRS.
BTW. Go back over this thread particularly the start, very little of the issues that were raised prior to this coming into force have been addressed, particularly that of people who shop from home with limited mobility. We are expected to wait until the magical date of June 2025 before we are given proper statistics and plan of how to deal with all of the issues brought up.
I bring them home but usually after carrying them around the shop which means I probably buy less on that visit.
There is no bin for rejected items.
Yes ridiculous. From return.ie FAQs:
To me this does leave it open for Dunnes to give store credit. Maybe someone who works in retail can give a reason why cash change is not offered here. It seems to get all cash for your voucher you must come to the till with nothing in hand looking like a tight arse not buying anything and clogging up the queue for everyone else.
Perhaps to get your oranges you could pay for them then get the total cash value of your deposit voucher in a separate transaction. They could well make you queue up again 😂. Shop gets a sale out of it. Gombeenery wins the day.
IBAN refunds would of course solve this scenario but that would be in the interests of the customer. Thats not Re-Turn's MO.
I returned two black sacks of cans during the week into Dunnes stores, as it was the closest to me after the nearest was blocked or something and a massive queue.
I clocked up €34.50 from the bulk of christmas that was in the shed, it took me ages to put them in one by one, my lower arm sticky and smelling of all sorts. It will be fun during wasp season.
I picked up a bag of oranges, walked to the checkout and paid with the re-turn docket. The lady said she would have to give me a Dunnes Stores card, to which I replied 'no thank you' as I thought that she had asked if I wanted one.
She told me that she has to give me that, they will not give me cash. Has this always been a thing with Dunnes? I don't shop there, I find them expensive unless having to multibuy items which I don't do. Can they force me to take a Dunnes card?
Ridiculous.
Oh well. The way I see it I walked passed a perfectly good bin that has not rejected anything for decades.
At the point the machine rejects something it is no longer my problem. Conscience clear.
My nearest machine is open to elements so just leaving them by the machine would be littering because the next breathe of wind will send them into the bushes.
Any rejects I have get left beside the machine.
I am hamstered out of it at that stage.
No longer my problem.
