Credit Card for Helper

[kashismum]

Have you thought of giving your helper a cheque already signed and made payable to ParknShop? That way all she has to do is fill in the amount. It's safe as only ParknShop can cash it and you don't have to worry that she won't have enough money to do all the shopping.

Does Park'n'Shop accept a cheque? I hadn't thought of this.

 

[sunrays]

Yes, they do. We do this quite often with our helper.

 

[provence]

Definitely not. Giving dh a credit card is like playing with fire, you might get burned.

 

[kashismum]

Thanks everyone for your advice. The general wisdom is 'Don't be so stupid/naive!'. Anyway, I didn't know that P'n'S will accept cheques, so I'll try this. Failing that, a store card would be a good option.

 

[LittleLams]

Kashismum, PnS no longer issues store card unless you have an existing account/old store card with them.

 

[kashismum]

Kashismum, PnS no longer issues store card unless you have an existing account/old store card with them.

Thanks, LittleLams. I did check their website but everything on that site seems to relate only to online shopping. When I called Customer Service, they didn't know how to answer and asked me to call the store.

 

[kashismum]

Yes, they do. We do this quite often with our helper.

I sent my helper with a cheque and they rejected it! A call to customer service confirmed that they'll only accept a cheque presented by the account holder and accompanied by their HKID card.

All a ploy to push you to use the online I ordering, I think.

Sunrays, has this not been your experience?

 

[sunrays]

How strange, we have never had this problem. I have seen other helpers using cheques to pay as well.

 

[joannek]

cash & notebook is what we do. every week, we give her cash & she has to keep the receipts each day & write everything she bought on the book at the end of the day & present it the next morning. we try to check it everyday cos it'll pile up. as for home grocery, i do the shopping online at parknshop.com. they do free delivery & it's a quite efficient website. wellcome has one too. so the helper only goes out for perishables.

 

[vivianhui]

Another way to do it is for you to go to PNS and buy the vouchers. You can then give the vouchers to your helper when she does her grocery. Of course you will need to give her some spare cash since they don't give change for vouchers.

I don't know if this solves the problem you originally posted here. We do this because we want to get the credit card points while still letting our helper do the grocery shopping for us (my credit card give 8% cash back for shopping at wellcome/park n shop).