Waitrose

Waitrose is set to end the 'pick your own offers' part of its loyalty scheme, after apparently concluding that customers found it too "confusing".

Members of Waitrose's loyalty cards programme will no longer be able to get a totally free tea or coffee – from next month, anyone wanting a 'free' hot drink will first need to make a purchase. But if you're annoyed by the change, you can still get a cuppa for just a few pennies.

Grocery shoppers are being hit by hidden price hikes in the form of 'shrinkflation', with packet sizes for popular brands such as Birds Eye, Maltesers and Mr Kipling getting smaller, according to a new analysis.

Members of Waitrose's loyalty cards programme are no longer able to get a totally free tea or coffee from all of its stores, after the supermarket began trialling a new scheme which requires shoppers in some areas to buy something before qualifying for a free drink.

Budget supermarket Aldi has been crowned Britain's 'most loved' retailer by users of MoneySavingExpert.com, while cut-price fashion retailer Primark has been voted the 'most loathed' company by those who took part in our online poll.

Waitrose will shortly scrap an offer that allows members of its loyalty card scheme to get a totally free coffee or tea if they sit in its cafes – even if they buy nothing else.

Morrisons customers will soon automatically get the price difference back if their grocery shop would have been cheaper at Asda, Sainsbury's or Tesco AND Aldi and Lidl, but only if they register for a loyalty card.

Morrisons customers can now use the supermarket's price-checker tool to compare past prices for some online products – but it can be beaten by MySupermarket's existing tool.

Shoppers could soon find it easier to compare food prices in-store after three of the UK's biggest supermarkets pledged to improve labelling to make prices and special offers easier to understand.

Tesco grocery customers will automatically get the price difference if their shop would have been cheaper at Asda, Morrisons or Sainsbury's. But how does it compare against rival schemes?