Caffe Nero is giving away free food this weekend - but there's a catch

Octopus Energy has announced that customers who are members of its "Octoplus" rewards strategy tin assertion a escaped croissant astatine Caffe Nero stores crossed the UK

Thousands of Brits tin get their hands connected immoderate escaped croissants this play - but they'll person to beryllium quick.

Octopus Energy has announced that customers who are members of its "Octoplus" rewards strategy tin assertion a escaped croissant astatine Caffe Nero stores crossed the UK. However, with freebies similar this, determination is ever a drawback and for this, lone the archetypal 10,000 radical tin assertion it. To get the freebie, each you request to bash is activate the codification connected the Octopus app and amusement it to the barista serving you astatine your section Caffe Nero. Octopus customers tin get the freebie from contiguous until Sunday October 6.

The connection has been launched to observe Caffe Nero switching implicit 630 stores successful the UK to Octopus Energy’s "Electric Match" tariff. The constricted variation pastry perk is besides successful summation to the escaped play Caffe Nero portion promotion it has. This allows members to assertion a escaped portion erstwhile a week astatine the java store chain. So if you person yet to usage your complimentary portion yet, you could dainty yourself to a barista-made java and a flaky pastry this weekend.

Rebecca Dibb-Simkin, Chief Product Officer astatine Octopus Energy, said: “Since April, our customers person enjoyed escaped play coffees astatine Caffè Nero. To observe Caffè Nero’s power to 100% greenish energy from Octopus, they tin present besides drawback a croissant this weekend. We’re helping Caffè Nero prevention connected energy bills portion going green, and it’s superb to beryllium capable to reward our savvy customers too, with much breathtaking freebies to follow.”

What is the 'Octoplus' loyalty scheme?

Octoplus is simply a points-based loyalty strategy and it gives radical the accidental to gain "Octopoints" that tin beryllium redeemed for credit, converted into vouchers for amusement and nutrient oregon donated to charity.

Octoplus members tin gain these points by doing definite things with Octopus Energy. The supplier says the enactment that’ll gain you the astir points is cutting your vigor usage during its Saving Sessions which is the supplier’s mentation of the National Grid ESO’s Demand Flexibility Service (DFS).

During Saving Sessions, Octopus tracks your usage astatine half-hourly intervals and past compares it to your emblematic usage astatine that peculiar clip of day. The much you chopped your vigor usage backmost by, the much Octopoints you’ll receive. Octopus says you’ll gain an mean of 800 to 1,000 points per session. The supplier says this is the equivalent of £1 to £1.25. Other ways members tin gain Octopoints include:

• Spinning the supplier’s Wheel of Fortune
• Getting idiosyncratic to power to Octopus via its referral strategy
• Switching to Octopus

Customers tin usage their Octopoints connected a scope of things including exclusive spins of the Octopus instrumentality of fortune, other points for person referrals, escaped play java from Greggs and Caffe Nero, discounted Odeon cinema tickets, and National Trust days out. Once you person earned the points, they are valid for 3 years.

Customers tin besides walk their Octopoints astatine the supplier's online store called "Shoptopus". Here you tin bargain t-shirts, socks and toys with your points, which volition beryllium worthy treble their look value. Octopus says immoderate nett generated by the store volition beryllium paid into its lawsuit enactment fund. To go an Octoplus member, customers volition request to:

• Have their energy supplied by Octopus
• Have an energy astute metre (which sends fractional hourly readings)
• Pay by nonstop debit