Woolworths School Stickers Earn & Learn Warning/Issue

mrvaluepack on 26/06/2019 - 09:20

So, the woolworths school stickers earn & learn program has ended and my wife is a school volunteer.

I just found out that the school volunteer has to go to all the participating Woolworths stores, take the sticker collection boxes, bring them home, count them and report the numbers.

What was the point of this whole promotion when school volunteers can just make up whatever numbers they want??? There is no checking or audits by woolworths. LOL

What a waste of time and money by parents and children spent collecting these stickers when the final result can just be created from thin air!

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  • John Kimble on 26/06/2019 - 09:33

    Sounds pretty crap. I'm hoping they would ask for proof of someone tried to rort it though.

  • Seraphin7 on 26/06/2019 - 09:39

    My understanding is that some evidence of actual stickers collected needs to be provided to actually redeem for goods. Maybe it's on some "random" audit basis, but I'm sure I've read that at least on past years' promotions.

  • brad1-8tsi on 26/06/2019 - 09:41
    +8

    The purpose of any promotion by ColesWorth is to increase sales not help others. They are the evil twins.

    In that vein, weigh 100 or 1000 tickets, then weigh the total to determine how many tickets, then add 20% for inaccuracy of the scales.

    • Nugs on 26/06/2019 - 10:18
      +1

      only 20%?
      .

    • qwerty on 26/06/2019 - 10:24

      Problem is some people put stickers in by themselves and others use booklets which add extra weight

      • brad1-8tsi on 26/06/2019 - 15:47

        I don't see that as a problem ;-)

    • mrvaluepack on 26/06/2019 - 20:44

      Could add some lead weights in the bags? ;)

  • 87percent on 26/06/2019 - 10:03
    +12

    the old ladies that hand out the stickers would always hook you up with a heap of them.. it was the younger workers who were always counting them

    • WreckTangle on 26/06/2019 - 11:57

      Exactly this

    • Cheaplikethebird on 26/06/2019 - 12:26

      As a young person I had the opposite experience, although I only ever dealt with young people. Always got given about ten when I only ever earnt 1 or 2. I always play it up like I know it’s a pain for them and I don’t really care about the tokens.

    • pegaxs on 26/06/2019 - 14:06

      Can confirm.

      Was doing the shopping recently and the 12yo they had attending the check out wouldn’t even round up one stamp, even though we were only about 20¢ short.

      The time before that, an older lady just grabbed the roll and ran a length off the roll as long as her arm. Didn’t count them out or work out how many, just rolled a load of them and said “this should cover it”

    • mrvaluepack on 26/06/2019 - 16:58

      Haha yes, same in my experience too..

  • qwerty on 26/06/2019 - 10:11
    +2

    I think if all the schools in the area are getting 20k worth of stickers and school X gets 200k i think they will request some sort of evidence

    • Emli on 27/06/2019 - 08:49

      As a person who works in a school, the value of the products that can be redeemed compared to the spend required to gain the stickers is very low. I sometimes wonder whether it is worth the time and more net used. I can’t imagine any school getting 20k worth of products.

  • Archi on 26/06/2019 - 10:29
    +1

    if you look a what the stickers can actually be redeemed for, its pretty ridiculous. 474 points for 1x basketball

    • tsunamisurfer on 26/06/2019 - 12:06

      Where can one find this information?

    • djones145 on 26/06/2019 - 15:02

      lol 1 ticket for 10 bucks
      had to have spent 4740 to get a basketball…. maybe with bonus tickets, 2000….
      wtf… woolies got us good here

      I rather just buy them a basketball at Kmart for 5 bucks lolz

      • Never Pay RRP on 28/06/2019 - 00:00

        It didn't cost you any extra though (unless you went out of your way to shop at woolies)

  • GG57 on 26/06/2019 - 10:38
    +4

    It was purely a promotion to garner more sales @ Woollies, as others have said.

    If Coles / Woollies were serious about helping out schools or others in the community, they could have just donated locally based on the store managers discretion / direct applications.

    That is what IGA, Bendigo Bank, etc., do and it doesn't involve collecting printed stickers or whatever. And, to be honest, they get my support because of it.

  • tsunamisurfer on 26/06/2019 - 10:51

    How does this promo work on the redeem side?

    Does every sticker represent a 'point' or a dollar value?

    Then when one has accounted for one's stickers, is there a site to go to for redemption?

    I would have collected around 200 stickers, just like to know what that gets.

  • slow on 26/06/2019 - 10:57
    +3

    I found the whole thing quite offensive. I normally shop at Aldi, but now have my kids (and the school via their newsletter) bugging me to shop at Woolworths so that they can collect these stickers, which I refused to do

    I agree, if they wanted to help they would just donate

    Or if everyone donated 10% of what they saved by shopping at Aldi over Woolworths the school would probably come out ahead

    • tranter on 26/06/2019 - 12:41

      I can't understand why schools get involved in some of these fundraising ventures in the first place, considering how little they get in return for the effort.

      My child's kindergarten does the Woolies stickers fundraising as well as selling the Entertainment Book.

      Last year they raised only $300 from the Entertainment Book which is nothing in the scheme of things. Staff are already so busy, they should really be concentrating on providing better early childhood education rather than getting involved in these things.

  • orangetrain on 26/06/2019 - 12:18
    -3

    This was a great ad by woolies. Australia loves giving more money to rich schools. What, did you think more stickers are given out to poor families for their poor school? Nah, they need to get a job and spend more for their local cheap school to benefit.

  • dasher86 on 26/06/2019 - 16:19

    I was told that the volunteers in previous years needed to peel each sticker and stick them in a book.
    The books where then counted.

    • Third_Gear on 26/06/2019 - 17:00

      This. They need to be affixed to complete a sheet and from there they are submitted. Only completed sheets are accepted.

    • mrvaluepack on 26/06/2019 - 17:05

      Well, when my wife brought the boxes home there were a mix of sticker strips and books. She said she had to count all stickers and report the total number of stickers not books.

      • Never Pay RRP on 28/06/2019 - 00:02

        If she just has to report it without any evidence, tell her to round up. WAY UP…

  • cupcake on 26/06/2019 - 16:57

    I asked a staff member weeks ago if the stickers in the box really makes a difference and she said "Yes". On average, each school gets about $2,000 worth of equipment supposedly. Will never know really unless I see the goods delivered. Like books, or sporting equipment or an air conditioner?

  • singingwolf on 26/06/2019 - 20:39

    Woolworths came out to our school and weighed them…

    • mrvaluepack on 26/06/2019 - 20:43

      The entire boxes? Or the stickers bags?

      • singingwolf on 26/06/2019 - 20:55

        the sheets of stickers

  • Bad Wolf on 27/06/2019 - 00:06
    +1

    Our local Woolworths (and another family member’s aswell) have been out of stickers for weeks. They just have a sign on all the registers saying sorry ran out due to demand.

    Just sounds like a poorly run promo.

    • Never Pay RRP on 28/06/2019 - 00:03

      Same here. Although I wouldn't bother to go out of my way to shop somewhere for a promotion like this, just doing my normal shopping, so don't really mind too much if it turns out to be a waste of time

  • [Deactivated] on 27/06/2019 - 08:05
    -3

    I don't understand want you posted this

  • jerlou on 27/06/2019 - 08:25
    -1

    Don't bite the hand that feeds. If enough people complain they might reduce the promo in the future.

    Consider if everyone had to send in 10's of 1000's of stickers to Woolies. Who pays? Parents would complain if they had to do it & if woolies paid for free postage they would take it out of funds allocated to resources. How would they count it? By hand or machine? Cost associated with both.

    Woolies get great exposure through this promo & get kudos for corporate responsibility but they didn't have to do it & my wife's daycare relies on the generosity of parent's collecting stickers & woolies for providing the promo.

    We're grateful

    • BogutsElbow on 27/06/2019 - 10:29
      -2

      I wholeheartedly agree.

      The OP seems upset that Woolworths is giving stuff to schools for free. People might be inclined to shop there more so it's a win win for schools and Woolworths.

      I'm struggling to understand the sense of entitlement. Isn't this a better campaign for a company to do than nothing?

      Also your local Woolworths probably does donate a heap to local causes. I know the few in my area do. Just go and speak to the store manager.

      • mrvaluepack on 27/06/2019 - 10:55

        Im not upset they are giving stuff for free, im just bemused that this system can be so easily rorted.

  • ELH05 on 27/06/2019 - 12:56

    What do schools realistically get out of this (what equipment) ? Is it worth the effort ?

  • mrvaluepack on 02/07/2019 - 18:02

    Ok, so final tally submission is just print out a form, sign and submit then keep stickers in garage for a couple of weeks just in case they want to do an audit. Lol, no weighing like others have said.

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