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Tesco Clubcard bonus points offers have been very thin on the ground recently.

If you look back at Head for Points from four years ago, we were running multiple articles per week on bonus point offers.  Many of them were a good deal even if you bought them purely for the Avios or Virgin Flying Club miles and sent the underlying product off for recycling.

Anyway, we have moved on.  Here is the new deal.

Tesco app double points

Until 1st March, you will receive double Tesco Clubcard points (2 per £1) on your in-store shopping when you scan the Tesco app at check-out.

You need to be clear about what we mean here.  You need to download the Tesco app to your smartphone and, when paying for your shopping, open the app and scan the page showing your Clubcard.

It will NOT work if you swipe a plastic Clubcard, swipe a key fob, use the Tesco Pay+ app or (potentially) even scan the Clubcard saved in Apple Wallet.  You must open the standard Tesco app and have it scanned.

You don’t need to register and the bonus points will be added automatically.

2 Clubcard points per £1 translates into 4.8 Avios or 5 Virgin Flying Club miles per £1 which is not a bad deal.

The usual exclusions apply, eg no points at all on tobacco products, baby milk etc.

PS.  If you missed it, you should take a look at our recent article on the top 10 reasons to get the Tesco Clubcard Mastercard credit card.

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Comments (208)

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  • Anna says:
    15 Feb15 February 12:38

    Oh, those EU protections, what are we going to do without them 😫?

  • Zoe says:
    15 Feb15 February 13:10

    OT I’m heading to Madrid from from Heathrow early on Monday morning. With lots of shorthaul flights being cancelled today it looks like it could be busy. I guess being bumped off as a knock on from weather is a reason for compensation. So 2 related questions, best way to avoid being bumped / best way to get bumped? I’m currently Silver if that is relevant. Thanks in advance.

    • marcw says:
      15 Feb15 February 13:23

      You won´t get bumped if your flight is operating. Leftovers from previous cancellations they will be accommodated to wherever there´s space available.
      There´s little room to gamble.

    • Lady London says:
      15 Feb15 February 13:37

      No comp for weather bump but you do get duty of care.

      However for no comp to apply due to weather then the weather must affect your actual flight not the positioning flight that brought your aircraft in. Airlines will try that on but there’s solid case law on it.

      • Zoe says:
        15 Feb15 February 15:11

        Thanks, they are not selling any more economy tickets for the flight and only 3 Club Europe so I guess it will be overbooked

      • Jeff says:
        15 Feb15 February 15:35

        where can one find this solid case law please? (same issue affected me last weekend and eJ indeed trying it on) thanks

        • Shoestring says:
          15 Feb15 February 15:44

          Deleted

        • Lady London says:
          15 Feb15 February 16:11

          eJ does try it on. I had one of their people try to tell me they wouldn’t owe me duty of care for a flight cancellation a few weeks ago. She was mixed up between compensation ( not due as cause was outwith eJ control) and duty of care which eJ 100% were liable for.

          If I get this kind of rubbish I just put in the claim and would be ready to do a moneyclaimonline on the dot of 8 weeks after date of claim. They have to reimburse the cost of filing the claim when you win or you ensure they add it to any settlement as you should not be forced to go that far.

      • Alex Sm says:
        15 Feb15 February 17:26

        This argument didn’t work for me with the Gatwick drone. Legally, the situation with the drone was treated as “the act of god” (i.e. similar to weather – circumstances beyond the airlines control).
        But
        My argument was that the airline explained the delay of our 7am Norwegian flight to Sweden to 1pm by the need to wait for the plane to come to Gatwick first from Sweden. At the same time they send out a 9am flight to Italy and other flights on time. They could have sent us on one of those planes but they didn’t. I failed to get a compo. Should I have pressed harder? Or maybe go through Resolver or similar service which can claim compos more efficiently?

        • Lady London says:
          15 Feb15 February 19:54

          Did you sue?

          If it’s a general prohibition such as the CAA wants more space between planes in bad weather so airports get told to do this so airlines get told they can only run a certain number of flights in a given period you are.SOL if yours gets cancelled due to this. The airlines are going to pick lighter loaded flights so they lose less. They are not going to cancel major longhaul flights with lots of connecting business unless they have to etc. If yours gets cancelled and this kind of governance instruction is the reason and it’s within the period then no compo just duty of care.

          In your case sounds like they didn’t give this reason so I’d have pushed it. I wonder how far outside the drone flight prohibitions your flight timing was.

  • Boi says:
    15 Feb15 February 13:24

    OT: Anyone had an offer disappear on amex? I had the travel offer, spend required amount 3 days ago. Now I cant even find it in my saved offers

  • Matt says:
    15 Feb15 February 14:39

    Hat tip on the Tesco app, didn’t spot that.
    Btw the clubcard app login double points stacks with a paper double points voucher. Just did it.

  • Ruby says:
    15 Feb15 February 16:27

    Can someone clarify the Virgin Clubcard autoconvert for me please? If I switch it on before the end of the month to get the 1000 points, will it only autoconvert the vouchers I’ve accrued in this period or also convert the stash I already have? If yes to the second part, would that include the Christmas saver vouchers? Thanks in advance.

    • Shoestring says:
      15 Feb15 February 16:41

      only converts the current period

      you might get the 1000 miles before the period end, in which case, just turn it off

      • Ruby says:
        15 Feb15 February 16:47

        Brilliant, thanks for confirming. Will switch on then and keep an eye out for the bonus.

        • James says:
          16 Feb16 February 02:38

          I jumped on this one last time. Anyone know if it will work for me going again?

  • BJ says:
    15 Feb15 February 16:54

    Apart from the compensation for pax this is also a stinker because the threat of huge EU261 bills almost certainly kept airline operators on their toes. I am sure that if it os relaxed to 12h punctuslity and reliability will both suffer.

    • marcw says:
      15 Feb15 February 17:14

      But isn´t on-time/punctuality % now a selling point? I believe so, especially among business travellers.

      • BJ says:
        15 Feb15 February 17:28

        Yes maybe, come to think of it I’ve only had a 1h+ delay once in at least the last five years. By contrast, I can recall them being quite frequent in 90s into the 00s.

  • Shoestring says:
    15 Feb15 February 17:40

    interesting UK court case ruling: strikes *ARE* extraordinary circs after all

    • BJ says:
      15 Feb15 February 20:21

      This must surely be successfully challenged. Given how well organised and regulated industrial action is these days I cannot see how anybidy in their right mind could consider it extraordinary.

      • Rui N. says:
        16 Feb16 February 09:30

        BJ, they don’t need to be extraordinary circumnstances. EU/261 clearly states that its provisions related to compensatio do not apply to regular strikes. Maybe Boris should do something about this on the Council? Or perhaps our MEPs? Oh, wait.

    • Rui N. says:
      16 Feb16 February 09:28

      This is 100% expected. A couple of years ago the EU court came out with a decision saying that wildcat strikes were not an extraordinary circumnstance. The UK CAA plus a few passenger organisations concluded, God knows why, that this decision meant that all strikes were now extraordinary circumnstamces. As expected, this was clearly not the case, it was a very abusive interpretation of the CJEU decision.

  • Ben says:
    15 Feb15 February 17:48

    OT – does anyone know how to find the official reason for a flight delay – I want to find out if I’m eligible for compensation or not..

    • marcw says:
      15 Feb15 February 19:30

      I believe Expert Flyer is a good source. They add a specific code to each cancelled flight.

    • Lady London says:
      15 Feb15 February 19:58

      There’s a thread on Flyertalk where people ask nicely if anyone can look it up for them if they haven’t got access.

    • Doug M says:
      15 Feb15 February 20:01

      If you give me the details I’ll look it up.

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