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No more easy Avios or Virgin Flying Club miles via Tesco Direct as its closure is announced

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Tesco has surprised the market today by announcing that it is closing Tesco Direct on 9th July.

Whilst some products will continue to be sold via the Grocery website, it is very likely that we have seen the end of the generous points bonanzas of the past – although, to be fair, pickings have been slim over the last couple of years.  This was always of great interest to Avios and Virgin Flying Club collectors due to the ability to transfer Clubcard points into airline miles.

Tesco Direct to close

Anika has the full story over at Shopper Points here.

She also cropped up in the BBC News version here.

Feel free to share your best Tesco Direct points deal in the comments!

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Comments (50)

  • Liz says:
    23 May23 May 13:31

    I bought a new Dyson hoover a couple of years ago when the 5000 CC pts offer was on.

  • Claire says:
    23 May23 May 13:36

    Slight OT. I received a letter from Tesco Bank just before saying they’re going to start charging 3.99% handling fee for any transactions from my Tesco Credit Card to ‘payments to prepaid of virtual cards’ – so does this affect payments made on my Tesco card via Curve or am I misunderstanding completely?

    • The Urbanite says:
      23 May23 May 14:09

      Sounds like a cash advance type charge if you’re topping up prepaid cards – and they’ll probably stop awarding points too if they do so currently.

    • Rob says:
      23 May23 May 14:16

      Curve is fine. Revolut, Monzo etc not fine.

      • Steve says:
        30 May30 May 19:53

        Rob how do you know that? I also got the letter because it says I have made these kinds of transactions before but I’ve only ever used Curve on it not any prepaid ones nor any of the other transaction types listed

        • Rob says:
          30 May30 May 21:13

          Because I chat to the Curve CEO on a regular basis. For 2 days, Mastercard was accidentally coding Curve transactions wrongly. Go back through your statements and look at the MCC code listed by each transaction. You may see a day where the MCC code changes. The code used in error is the one used by Revolut etc which is why Tesco things you are using Revolut.

        • James knox says:
          6 Jun6 June 13:44

          I’ve been charged a cash withdrawal fee on my tesco card after using curve to withdraw cash from ATM. Just dropped the curve team a note to find out if they can help. Also tried going back in time to change to another card. Been happily using this system for a while…

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