Tesco is probably one of the best supermarkets for collecting points from at the moment, offering 1 point for every £1 spent in the store or petrol station as well as in their online stores, and with extra points offered if you shop using their credit card as well. One point is equal to a penny if you spend it on regular food goods so that’s not too bad. However, there are ways that you can make each of those points worth either 2p or 4p depending on how you use them.
First of all there are Tesco deals vouchers. These have been around for a while now and so many people have already come across them. Tesco allow you to exchange each £2.50 worth of Tesco points voucher for £10 of deals voucher, making each point you earned worth 4p. You have to choose which deals voucher you want when you order them, but there’s quite a variety of choice from vouchers for days out at places such as Legoland or the zoo, to vouchers which can be spent at restaurants such as Bella Italia, Café Rouge or Harry Ramsdens. They can also be turned into vouchers for jewellery at Goldsmiths, or Air miles as well as a variety of other places.
Alternatively, the new way of using your points vouchers is to use them in store on specific departments where you can now exchange them for ‘in store deals vouchers’ worth 2x the amount of your original points voucher so £5 becomes £10 and each point is worth 2p. The departments that you can do this for are, Toys, Clothing, Baby & Toddler, Cosmetics & Skincare, Tesco Mobile, and Wines. To do this, all you have to do is to either use the tesco online system to exchange them using the codes on your vouchers which you can do here or you can exchange them by post by printing out this order form and sending it off to them as it tells you to. Done online the vouchers normally arrive in about a week, and done by post a little longer. Then you just use them in store to buy items from the relevant department just as you normally would, and hand over the voucher at the checkout. The only difference being that you get twice as much for your money.
Tags: discounts, loyalty cards, save money, shopping, supermarket, tesco
Yep - we did this! Chopped in £125 worth of Tesco's vouchers for £500 of worth of Goldsmiths vouchers. There was a minimum spend, but it was only a few hundred pounds. Bought my wife an eternity ring - made me look very good indeed!!