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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.

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

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Comments (49)

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  • Andrew H says:
    22 May22 May 17:32

    It’s the end, but we had a good run… unless the grocery ebsite starts offering bonus points.

    Best offer: the printer cartridges of course! 🙂

    • Genghis says:
      22 May22 May 17:36

      Printer cartridges was great but equalled for me at least by the Now TV boxes, 500 bonus points for £12.50 as I managed to get the maths to work out (IIRC c.15p for a £1 of Uber credit). There’s still hope for the repeat of the Mr M offer / small cauliflowers in store…

      • Lev441 says:
        22 May22 May 17:41

        What was the caluliflower / Mr M deal – missed that one!

        • Rob says:
          22 May22 May 18:13

          Ocra ….. we all learned a new word.

          Silly promo where you got points for buying certain loose veg so the key was breaking off the smallest possible chunk 🙂

        • Genghis says:
          22 May22 May 19:29

          And the Mr Muscle offer was 51 cc points for £1 and the Mr Muscle cleaner – enough for a couple of years’ supply for me and my MIL (who was very happy to receive it).

        • Lev441 says:
          22 May22 May 23:33

          Must have missed these two – being in the food business I could have easily used both of the above quite easily and really racked up the points…Must have been before my hfp days!

      • ankomonkey says:
        22 May22 May 19:23

        Okra and baby aubergines – I had 100s of both. Had to give most away as we couldn’t eat them all.

    • Lev441 says:
      22 May22 May 17:41

      I never bothered with the now tv boxes – I still have a couple of boxes full of the cartridges in my office – thought I should probably get rid of those before any more!

      Managed to reach the 30k cap on three different Clubcard accounts – not bad for 10 mins work – was just fluke at the time I looked at my phone, the post had just come up! Never normally a case of right place and right time…..

    • flyforfun says:
      23 May23 May 13:08

      My best effort – 500 tesco points on Xmas 2009 CD and DVD promotion. Bought 50 of them and gave them away for xmas pressies. When I tranferred to BA, there was a double points promo on – I didn’t even know! And this was at the old rate! Ended up going to South America in CW and used a 2-4-1 as well!

  • Dave says:
    22 May22 May 17:39

    My sadly departed cat earned me a few welcome points !

  • cristian rivera says:
    22 May22 May 17:42

    hi I’m trying to book some flights on iberia plus using avios but on the iberia page is not showing seats on the date I want. but I check on BA and is showing seats. can I take the flight number and call iberia to book this flights or is not possible ? thank you

  • Tilly says:
    22 May22 May 17:57

    Gutted. Got loadsa points from them for things I genuinely needed to buy and got whopping big bonus points from. Add to that the points from accessing via the BA shopping portal and it was nice little earner.

  • the real harry1 says:
    22 May22 May 18:33

    Xmas Saver workaround should still work in principle but you might have to try harder to get points used refunded to points – Direct was happy to do this but store might find it fiddly, I guess.

    That printer deal was one of the best. Plus of course 1000 points on a £10 ink. I think both maxed out monthly limit for myself & wife.

    I’m fully expecting there to be a lot more in-store bonus points deals.

    • the real harry1 says:
      22 May22 May 19:33

      There was also a decent 2x Gillette shaving gels deal, 250 points bonus istr but it was about 2013. Still using the shaving gel and it’s fine 🙂

      Don’t get me started about gaming pre-orders lol

      • ankomonkey says:
        22 May22 May 19:56

        I did many of the game pre-orders. Didn’t even have a console 😉

        Gillette and Mr Muscle were good. I also did Maggi instant noodles. IIRC 33p per packet with 25 bonus points. They were too slow at restocking these to make a real killing.

        • the real harry1 says:
          22 May22 May 20:01

          Sounds like you might have been around in DTD days, that was worth a few £thou 🙂

        • the real harry1 says:
          22 May22 May 20:05

          Raffles was around back then (I guess nearly 7-8 years ago) but probably (like me) couldn’t always deal with the gobbly women on elite vs size of the prize, drove me mental, probably still going strong but can’t be bothered these days, other fish to fry etc 🙂

    • David says:
      23 May23 May 08:28

      Someone posted on the PaidShop website about Value cards last year with a glitch of 500 points on a 0.99p item was very handy too.

  • Dave H says:
    22 May22 May 18:43

    Don’t forget the bananas!

  • Alex W says:
    22 May22 May 18:52

    If I had taken out the Tesco premium credit card I would be absolutely raging right now!

    • the real harry1 says:
      22 May22 May 18:57

      Good point. I worked out that card was a bit useless for me but I might have made spend target with petrol & Direct – without Direct, no chance as I’m not really a Tesco Groceries shopper, I think their Groceries offering is poor and over-priced for what you get.

  • Cat says:
    22 May22 May 21:30

    Ink cartridges at 1000 points for each – I missed the £10 ones, but got in there in time for a mountain of the more expensive cartridges, which I very easily sold on eBay. The Morphy Richards Slow cookers which I managed to sell for the same price I bought them for, and the times I’ve guessed the correct Lego that will sell out before Christmas – I actually made a profit on the First Order Star Destroyers this year, and on that occasion they had 2000 points for a £120 spend. The Now TV boxes obvs. Lastly some of the Fisher Price toys I bought for my gorgeous niece, and spent months enjoying playing with as much as she did!

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