https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/companies/retail/woolwor…
From December 2, Kiwis will be able to convert their everyday rewards points to Air New Zealand airpoints dollars or Qantas points.
When members reach 2000 everyday rewards points they can choose to convert these to 15 airpoints dollars or 1500 Qantas points.
That's more generous that the Australian equivalent which converts to 1000 Qantas for 2000 points
Bet those people that moved to aus really regret their decision now
For me, $15 in Woolworths vouchers is closer to being 'cash' than $15 of AirNZ vouchers as I spend money in Woolworths most weeks, but only at AirNZ occasionally, but each to their own, and no downside to having the option.
This
Would be great to see Qantas finally launch a credit card as well so I can move away from Airpoints!
Better idea, shop at Pak'n Save and put the money you save under your mattress to use to buy a plane ticket or whatever at a later date.
Consumer just published a survey last month that they did on grocery prices in NZ. They tracked online prices for a basket of 22 grocery items for 8 weeks at New World, Pak’nSave and Woolworths stores in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.
They found that Pak'n Save worked out to be the cheapest overall, which is no surprise, but just how much cheaper they were is quite astounding. If you bought these 22 items every week for a year from Pak'n Save you'd save on average $825 compared to someone who bought the same items from Woolworths. New World even worked out cheaper than Woolworths (if using the New World Clubcard).
This line stood out to me -
There was little savings benefit for Woolworths Everyday Rewards members – on average, swiping your card would have saved less than $1.60 each week.
https://www.consumer.org.nz/articles/what-s-the-cheapest-sup…
Even using it for fuel doesn't work out the best, I don't know about other regions but down here in Dunedin BP currently costs 16.9c/L more than the cheapest options.
This could work well.