My experience with Tesco’s ‘150 Clubcard points for a £50 gift card’ promotion

I posted recently about Tesco’s low-key “earn 150 Clubcard points when you spend £50 on gift cards” promotion.

It is an easy way to earn 600 Avios or 625 Virgin Flying Club miles and possibly reach the 650 points you need to earn this quarter to get 2,000 bonus Avios under the ‘Get More’ promotion.  See full details online.

I decided to give this a try today, and this is what I learnt:

There is no in-store branding for this promotion, at least in the Tesco Metro I visited. This means we don’t know when the promotion ends, and you will be taking a small leap of faith by taking part as gift cards are non-refundable.

You can mix-and-match gift cards to get to the £50 spend. I bought £20 of Cineworld, £20 of Top Shop (Christmas presents!) and £10 of National Book Tokens. Note that Tesco and Visa gift cards are excluded.

You can use a conditional spend coupon with your purchase. I had a ‘£3 off £30 spend’ coupon and it went through OK, so I paid just £47 instead of £50.

The 150 points go onto your receipt instantly.

The 150 points are NOT bonus points. They replace the standard Clubcard points you earn when buying gift cards, which are usually 1 point for every £4 spent.

All in all, I am happy with my purchase. I was hoping to get some Pizza Express gift cards as well but the store didn’t have any, so I will try to find some elsewhere in the next couple of days.

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How to earn Avios from UK credit cards (April 2024)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Avios points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses!

In February 2022, Barclaycard launched two exciting new Barclaycard Avios Mastercard cards with a bonus of up to 25,000 Avios. You can apply here.

You qualify for the bonus on these cards even if you have a British Airways American Express card:

There are two official British Airways American Express cards with attractive sign-up bonuses:

You can also get generous sign-up bonuses by applying for American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points. These points convert at 1:1 into Avios.

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There are also generous bonuses on the two American Express Business cards, with the points converting at 1:1 into Avios. These cards are open to sole traders as well as limited companies.

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Avios. This includes both personal and small business cards.