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Rapide561

Hello

I have had two emails and a PM in recent days about this, so here is a guide as I see it.

Tesco introduced a Clubcard loyalty scheme years ago. For every one pound spent on the card in a Tesco store - including petrol - you will receive one point. So, a fill up at the petrol station costing £50 will earn you 50 points.

Every quarter, you will receive a statement showing how many points you have earned in the quarter. These points are then convered to vouchers.

Example.

Over the quarterly collecting period you have earned 1015 points. 1000 will be converted to vouchers to spend in store at Tesco - so a voucher of £10.00. The remaining 15 points will be carried over to the next quarter.

The voucher can be taken to Tesco and spent in store at face value, or used on line at www.tesco.com

Many of us do not spend voucher instore, but convert them to Tesco "deals". A deal is worth four times the value of your voucher. So, your £10 voucher above is worth £40 as a "deal".

Deals are available on Eurotunnel, Irish Ferries, Stena Line, P&O Cruises and many other places such as hotels, leisure parks and so on.

You cannot just travel on the tunnel by turning up at the terminal with your Clubcard and vouchers. Instead, you log on to www.tesco.com/clubcard and order your "deal tokens". Your £10 worth of in store vouchers will get you a £40 Eurotunnel voucher. Each Tesco voucher has a bar code on it, and you enter this on line. Your voucher is then converted to a "deal token" showing the supplier of the services ordered - in this case - Eurotunnel.

Tesco are very fast at sending out Tesco deal tokens. Your tokens will arrive with detailed booking instructions.

Easy.

So, to boost your points.....

1) You could get a Tesco credit card - this will give you points everytime you use your card - even in ASDA etc. Check the terms and conditions etc and remember this is a financial product.

2) "Rounding" - don't let the petrol pump stop you at £39.90 - you will get 39 points. Instead, add another 10p worth of fuel to take your bill to £40 and you will get 40 points.

3) Re use your carrier bags - one point each time you shop and tell the cashier you are reusing a carrier bag. It is actually the number of bags not used that counts, so you can actually use a humble bucket and tell the cashier that is in place of three carrier bags etc.

4) Bonus points - with your quarterly statement, there are often bonus points - such as "earn 50 extra points when you spend £2 on butter".

5) If you have a Clubcard - you will receive one statement per quarter as mentioned, showing your points total and giving you some bonus point offers. If you have a credit card, you will receive another quarterly statement showing the points you have earned whilst spending money on your credit card. Again, this will have some bonus points. Some people prefer to have only one statement - so only one lot of bonus points....bad idea.

6) Till receipt offers. Often, the receipt comes through with an offer on it. The last one I had was 200 extra points (worth £2 in store or £8 on a deal) if I bought dish washer tablets. I aint got a dish washer, but I bought them tablets.

7) Silly offers - things like the Johnsons talc and the meat pie extravaganza spring to mind.

There are lots of ways to boost your points and as I do not know the legality of them, I aint posting 'em!

You can also join various Tesco Clubs. I don't mean at the local Darby and Joan club - I mean the Tesco wine club, baby club and so on. They come with literature every now and again.....and inside the literature, bonus points such as "50 extra points as a thankyou for being in the xxxxxxx club".

I have not paid for a ferry crossing since January 2006. Prior to that was spending vouchers in store!!!!! This website changed all that!

Any info is for your guidance only and it not to be taken as fact. You need to check the small print as terms and conditions may change.

My points total last quarter was very disappointing......

Russell

Minerva

Nice one Russell

Thanks from me

Bill

greenasthegrass · NE Rally Co-ordinator

Awesome - just the Mutts Nutts! this site saved me my Eurotunnel charges just for the Tesco deals info - have got £41 x 4 towards next crossing and counting might even be worth a little trip over at Christmas!

Mwah

Greenie

devonidiot

veering off point ( but only slightly ).

I believe you can swap Tesco points for AirMiles, if this is correct is it worth while? I have had over 2000 AirMiles for the last two years and would like to use them on ferry/tunnel travel, again is this possible?

Solwaybuggier

Some of the deals from the Wine Club, Good Food Club etc are worth doing - we have recently had offers of 1000 points (ie £10 or £40 in Deals) when buying a case of wine online, or spending £50+ on home delivery groceries.

buttons

If you use your Asda card for your fuel at Asda of course you will receive 2p off every litre 80ltrs = £1-60.
Asda fuel price is already the lowest at every store, unlike Tesco who only lower their price when there is an Asda store in the area. Example Watford Tesco £1-27 B/ Wood Tesco £1-31.
I haven’t done the calculations but I’m sure it is a better deal.
You’re not committed to giving all your custom to Tesco either.

Rolling Eyes

brisey

Our local 24hour Tesco garage does not give Clubcard points on fuel sales. The nearest Tesco garage that does give points is 6 miles away, for us the journey back and forth negates the advantages of using Tesco.

Rapide561

A £2.50 Tesco voucher as received in your quarterly bill is worth 60 Airmiles.

There is a long thread on here about the value of Airmiles and for what I wanted, the Tesco deal wins game, set and match.

Here is the link to my calculations.

devonidiot

Thanks a lot Rapide.

I think I'll try to get rid of my 2000+ Airmiles in September, and still carry on collecting Tesco points.

The problem is that Tesco is over 10 miles away, however, I always fill up there when visiting the city which, unfortunately is not often. I did have over £60 worth of vouchers, but we used them before we knew about Tesco deals.