How We Verify Every Discount

A senior discount nobody can actually get is worse than no listing at all. So we work to a standard, and this page is the standard, in public.

The rules

1. The retailer’s own words. A discount only gets listed when we can point to the retailer’s own published policy: their website, program terms, or official price list. A forum post or another blog is a lead, never a source.
2. The fine print is the listing. Who qualifies (the exact age), what the discount is, when it runs (many are one day a week), and where it applies. If a programme is regional or run by a franchise, the listing says so.
3. Every listing carries a date. The “last verified” stamp on each entry is the day we last checked it against the source. No stamp, no listing.
4. We check again on a cycle. Programmes change quietly. The whole directory gets another pass on a regular cycle, and reader reports jump the queue.
5. Dead programmes get marked, not buried. When a discount ends, the listing says it ended and when. A site that hides its dead listings cannot be trusted about its live ones.
6. Honest “no” answers. Some famous chains have no senior discount at all (Costco, Walmart Canada, Starbucks and Home Depot among them). We publish those answers too, in our article busting the myths, because a directory that only says “yes” is an ad.

If a store says no

Show the listing, ask politely for the manager, and check the retailer’s policy page together. Then tell us what happened. If the programme has changed, we update the stamp or mark it ended, and the next reader is not embarrassed at the till.

Government pensions, benefits and tax credits are not covered here. This site lists commercial discounts only.