Amazing deals to be had with Clubcard (Tesco Clubcard)

Member Name: londongirl

Product:	Tesco Clubcard
Date:	29/11/08 (286 review reads)
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Advantages: Get points quickly, use it for deals for 4 x the value

Disadvantages: None!

I have had a clubcard for many years now and it continues to be the best loyalty card I have. It is a lot more generous than Sainsbury's nectar card and as Tesco sells so many different products it is easier to build up your points than it is on say the Boot Advantage card.

You get a point per £1 spent at Tesco on anything except prescriptions, gift vouchers, mobile top ups etc. I also have a Tesco credit card which gives me further points if I use that - you can use both at the same shop and therefore get more points.

If you do your weekly shop in Tesco the points build up very quickly, but best of all if you sign up to the various Tesco clubs you will get sent different vouchers every few weeks. I am a member of the Wine club and the Healthy Eating Club, but there is also a Baby and Toddler club if you are eligible for that. In the Healthy Eating club you get a booklet with recipies in every couple of months and a sheet of vouchers for extra clubcard points - sometimes something as simple as 50 extra points if you spend over £4 on Vegetables (as an example). So it is basically extra points for spending on things you would normally buy.

Once you have got over 250 points (worth £2.50) then you will get sent a voucher. They send out vouchers in each quarter - February, May, August and November. Then you can either redeem the voucher in store for money off your shopping or better still use it online or by post to send off for one of the Tesco Clubcard deals.

The benefit of using your voucher for deals is that it is worth 4 times the amount of the voucher. Therefore your £2.50 voucher becomes worth £10 for Clubcard deals.

Some of the best things I have used the deals for include my RAC membership each year - which costs me about £30 in vouchers rather than about £110 or £120 if i were to buy it in cash from the RAC directly. I have got a magazine subscription for both me and my mum for quarter of the price you would normally pay.

I have also used quite a few of them for meals out tokens and I gave £40 of vouchers (only cost me £10) to my mum for her birthday for Chez Gerard and her and my dad managed to have a lunch out and a breakfast for that!

They also do lots of different days out tokens and I'm not sure if they still do it but they used to do a Tussauds (now Merlin group) annual pass. This gets you in to all the attractions in this group - Thorpe Park, Alton Towers, Chessington, Warwick castle, Madam Tussauds etc. An annual pass for an adult usually costs about £90 or £100 I think but again you get this for quarter of the price with the Tesco vouchers and you can go as many times as you like! We must have visited Chessington at least 6 times when we had our annual passes and didn't cost us a thing except our normal weekly shop at Tesco!

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