Use them or lose them is message with Co-op stamps
CO-OP dividend stamp cards must be redeemed by the end of December.
The dividend stamps were phased out during the pandemic in 2020, and people have had the last two years to use any old filled cards.
They will no longer be accepted after 31 December.
Co-op chief executive officer Mark Cox said it recognised it needed to warn people they were running out of time to redeem them.
‘We know people will still be finding them at the back of drawers or down the back of the sofa,’ he said.
‘And people should remember you still get an extra 5% off for every pound you spend using the cards in December.’
Nocq Road store manager Marika Gravleja said that shoppers had been coming in with stamps in the last few weeks.
‘In the old days we would literally have bags full of used stamps on every till in December because people saved them up for Christmas, but its got quieter and quieter since we stopped issuing them,’ she said.
‘We have seen a lot of old stamps this week, I’ve been here 17 years and there were some from before my time which I didn’t recognise. I think the message is getting out that we stop taking them at the end of the month. Use them – otherwise you lose them.’
