Bounty Tesco Asda pack collection: do you still need the app?

What did Bounty stop producing?

Bounty’s pack FAQ is blunt. It says the company “no longer produce[s] the Mum-to-Be or Newborn pack”, after what it describes as a carbon-footprint change. The packs page repeats the same two lines: FREE Mum-to-be Pack — No longer available and The Maternity ward Bounty Newborn pack — No longer available.

MayTally has not inventoried Tesco, Asda or Boots shelves. If a store still has an old carton in a cupboard, that is leftover stock, not proof the collection scheme is running.

Do I still need the app for Tesco, Asda or Boots?

Not for a Mum-to-Be bag. That collection step belonged to a pack Bounty says it has stopped making. Downloading the app at 20 weeks and showing a QR code at customer services is the old route some coupon sites still describe as current. Bounty’s own FAQ no longer tells you to collect anything in those shops.

The app is still a Bounty product. The FAQ asks people to switch on push notifications so they do not miss “offers”. That is marketing inside a commercial club, not a supermarket voucher for a discontinued bag. Joining the app still creates a membership file — see how long Bounty keeps that file.

Where does the prenatal folder come from now?

Bounty still produces a smaller zip-lock “handbag” folder that it says is at least 30% recycled. It supplies that folder free to main-hospital antenatal clinics, GP surgeries and private scan clinics that are willing to take it. Channel Islands venues are excluded, Bounty says, because of cost.

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   Ask at the next antenatal or scan appointment Bounty’s FAQ says the folder is given by a health professional at around 12 weeks. If you have not had one, it tells you to ask your midwife at the next visit.
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   If the clinic has run out Bounty asks you to email [email protected] with the address of the surgery, antenatal clinic or scanning unit. It says it will “endeavour” to get more folders to that venue. It also says it cannot post a folder to you.
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   Treat samples as optional extras The folder may contain samples, a Bounty Baby Guide and other literature, “subject to availability”. Out-of-date samples are a supply-chain complaint to [email protected], not a reason to sign extra partner clubs.

How do I claim Child Benefit without a Bounty pack?

On GOV.UK. How to claim Child Benefit says you can start 48 hours after the birth is registered, or once a child comes to live with you. You can claim online, by post or by phone. You do not need a Bounty envelope, a Bounty app code or a supermarket collection.

Bounty’s FAQ still says it supplies main-hospital postnatal wards with HMRC forms or literature “signposting new mums to ways of claiming Child Benefit”. If nobody handed you that envelope, Bounty itself points to GOV.UK and the HMRC app. That matches the official route.

Child Benefit is an HMRC payment with its own rules. A missing Bounty pack does not block a claim, and a Bounty representative is not an HMRC officer. See also whether Bounty is part of the NHS.

Why do some websites still mention store collection?

Older freebie round-ups were written when the Mum-to-Be bag was a real in-store pick-up. Some of those pages have not been rewritten against Bounty’s current FAQ. Use Bounty’s packs page as the live status, then ignore any guide that still treats Tesco, Asda or Boots as the way to “unlock” a bag.

In shortIn short: the Tesco / Asda / Boots collection step is retired with the Mum-to-Be and Newborn packs. You do not need the app for that trip. Ask your midwife about the prenatal folder, and claim Child Benefit on GOV.UK.