Good news for Checkers and Shoprite customers in South Africa
Shoprite has entered into a partnership with Astron Energy to expand its Xtra Savings rewards into fuel purchases.
When filling up with petrol at an Astron outlet, customers with an Xtra savings card can receive up to 25 cents in rewards per litre.
The rewards are redeemable in any store part of the Shoprite group, including its adjacent businesses such as Petshop Science and Uniq.
“Rewards are allocated to customers within 24 hours and can be redeemed at any qualifying Shoprite Group store (including Checkers, Checkers Hyper, Checkers Outdoor, Shoprite, Usave, Petshop Science and Medirite) or on Sixty60,” the group explained.
The rewards have a monthly cap of either 190 litres of fuel or R4,000 spent on petrol, whichever comes first, after which the customer cannot earn rewards until the next month.
“In each calendar month, all Xtra Savings members can earn rewards on purchases of qualifying fuel equal to R4,000 or 190 litres (whichever occurs first within the month),” Shoprite explained.
At the starting rewards price of 25 cents per litre, this would work out to R47.5 for 190 litres, or R33 for the R4,000 cap when filling up with 95 unleaded.
However, the rewards increase to 50 cents per litre if a person spends more than R3,000 on qualifying fuel purchases.
“All Xtra Savings members that spend more than R3,000 per month on qualifying fuel purchases automatically double their monthly rewards to 50 cents per litre, including on litres already purchased during the month,” Shoprite said.
This would equal a maximum reward of R95 per month under the 190-litre cap, and R66 per month under the R4,000 limit when filling up with 95 unleaded.
For 0.005% diesel, the R4,000 rewards cap would amount to approximately R63.29 in monthly rewards, still below the 190-litre limit.
Shoprite’s head of partnerships for ShopriteX, Hayden Scholtz, said the partnership with Astron is intended to provide relief on essential household costs.
“Fuel and groceries are two essential household costs, and this partnership connects them in a practical way: earn money for groceries when you purchase fuel,” he said.
“Through our partnership with Astron Energy, customers now have another effortless way to earn cashback on everyday spending and put that value towards the things they need most.”
Astron’s head of marketing, Thayuri Moodley, said the goal was to create an easily accessible rewards programme for consumers.
“South Africans are asking more of the brands they choose,” she said. “In the current economic environment, value needs to be real, relevant and easy to access.”
“By bringing together fuel and grocery rewards, we are connecting two important parts of customers’ everyday lives.”
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