One hundred bushels is one pound. That is the entire exchange rate.
The burn side, published as plainly as the earn side, because a scheme that makes earning easy to understand and spending deliberately vague is a scheme that is hoping you will not.
What a balance actually buys.
| Bushels | Buys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | One pound off anything | All three, no minimum spend |
| 450 | A pint at the garden bar | The pub, after a card check |
| 600 | A jar of chilli jam | The shop, in person or online |
| 850 | A jar of Bee Juice honey | The shop |
| 1,200 | A four-pack of session lager | The brewery, after a card check |
| 1,800 | A place on a brewery tour | Booked like any other place, subject to availability |
| 2,400 | The Sunday roast, one cover | The pub, and it does not get you a table |
| 5,000 | A Larder Box | Applied against the next dispatch |
Why there is no redemption catalogue.
The standard move at this point is a rewards shop: a branded fleece for nine thousand points, a mug for two thousand, all priced at a rate that quietly makes a point worth half what it was worth as a discount. It is extremely common and it is a way of taking value back without announcing it.
Here the rate is one hundred to the pound against the ordinary shelf price, on everything, all the time. If a jar costs six pounds it costs six hundred bushels, and when the jar goes up so does the bushel price. Nothing is points-only and nothing has a special redemption rate.
The cost of that honesty is that the burn side is dull. There is no thrill in it. There is also nothing to be annoyed about in eighteen months when you work out what the fleece was really worth.
Alcohol, every time, without exception.
Bushels spend on beer, cider and spirits at exactly the same rate as everything else, and every one of those redemptions is age-restricted. We will card you at checkout and the driver will card you again at the door. There is no loyalty route around an age check, and a balance is not a reason to skip one.
How a redemption behaves at the till.
The discount goes on first
A member discount is applied to the price before bushels touch it. That order is in your favour.
You choose how many to spend
In hundreds. There is no minimum and no requirement to clear the balance.
It comes off the balance to pay
Never off the delivery charge, and never below zero.
It appears on the receipt
As a line, in pounds and in bushels, so the arithmetic is checkable on paper.
A refund returns them
Within twenty-four hours, to the account that spent them, in full.
Against the three schemes people compare it to.
| Hoarding | A supermarket card | A coffee stamp card | A points catalogue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rate you can state in one sentence | ||||
| Same rate on everything | ||||
| Works across three separate businesses | ||||
| Rewards turning up as well as spending | ||||
| Points-only items at an invented price | ||||
| Expires while you are still a customer | ||||
| Any cash value at all |
Spending, questioned.
Yes, if you have enough. A £6 jar for six hundred bushels and nothing on the card is a perfectly ordinary transaction here.
Yes, and in that order — discount first, then bushels against what is left. It is the sequence that costs us more, which is why it is the sequence we published.
Yes. You earn nothing on the redeemed portion, which is the only catch and it is a small one.
Bushels do not touch it. Delivery is a courier’s money rather than ours, and discounting it with loyalty points means paying the courier out of a marketing budget.
