I’m Tesconfused by Clubcard Vouchers
Written by Karen Bryan
I’ve already explained why I’m tescoffed with Tesco Clubcard Exchange. Now I’m being tesconfused by my pile of Tesco Clubcard vouchers. I received yet another envelope of Tesco Clubcard vouchers, two money off vouchers to get £3 deducted when I spend £30, plus an assortment of money off and bonus vouchers for specific products. I still had some of these product vouchers from the last batch. I decided to be strategic before I went to Tesco, to see if I could put some of the products for which I’d get discounts and extra points on my shopping list. Now I try to stick to only buying things I need, not falling into the trap of spending money in order to (supposedly) save money.
I identified Tesco Clubcard vouchers for two items I needed to buy; kiwi fruit and breaded fish. However the 35 pence off pre-packed kiwi fruit excluded Everyday Value kiwis and another voucher for 70 pence off breaded fish excluded frozen fish.
However, I did manage to redeem another voucher for 50 pence off when I spent £2 on natural yoghurt.
Quite honestly this is all such a fiddlly faff. Tesco must spend money printing and posting out these vouchers, which I believe could be better spend on some straighforward lower prices. It also leaves customers feeling frustrated when they’ve sought out certain items to save money and/or get extra Tesco Clubcard points, only to discover that the voucher isn’t valid for the exact item that they want to buy or the item’s temporarily out of stock.
I could not agree more.
Life is just too short to mess around with these things!.
Another annoying Tesco thing is say 4p a litre off petrol when you spend £40. I am retired I don’t spend £40 necessarily all at once. I go out shopping every couple of days and buy what I need from a list produced by going round the kitchen cupboards seeing what we need. This is another very obvious money saving tip which a lot of people don’t follow. You must bear in mind that these so called money saving offers are not for the customers benefit but are for the supermarkets in getting you to spend more.