For old times’ sake …. earn bonus miles with a Tesco Clubcard deal

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• Daisy says:

  24 May24 May 12:27

  Wasn’t there a deal on with bananas at a similar time to the roast beef?
  I remember the baby club deals buying nappies and other baby items with points and coupons and then flogging the lit at car boot sales along with the hood old health and beauty points. I spent our points on VA holidays La, San Diego and three visits to Disney World. I wasn’t as Davy with miles back then.

• idrive says:

  24 May24 May 13:10

  speaking of bananas…Tesco just recently started charging per banana rather than weight, i got shocked!!

  I am thinking to create a piece of art with the 3vs…:-)
  A bar code scanner app proved useful to facilitate the job!!
  Great times indeed!

  • iSub says:

    24 May24 May 18:35

    I think it varies by store. There are two near me and one charges by weight and one per banana. The one that charges by banana is a Metro, in case that mean anything

    • Nick says:

      24 May24 May 19:25

      It’s Express that charges by banana. But Metros are disappearing and becoming Expresses, which could explain why yours has changed recently.

• Fiona says:

  24 May24 May 13:16

  Oh the “memories” – reading about a good offer on PTS and dashing off to my local shop to see if they had the item(s) in stock, stopping at any Tesco we passed when there was a good offer on, starting a rumour I was expecting when I was seen in Tesco with a trolley full of nappies to get the 1000 bonus points and having about 10 different club card accounts to maximise point gathering. (my home delivery driver gave up as I was forever getting a delivery marked as a “new customer” so he was meant to explain the process to me etc etc)

• The Savage Squirrel says:

  24 May24 May 13:30

  “Sign up to a random casino, decline their signup bonus, gamble 20 pounds on red on roulette, get 50 pounds of Clubcard points –”

  Lots of sign-up bonuses were better taken. Even after working through everything out there, in the early days of online casinos, lots had recurring monthly 100% deposit bonuses with minimal play-through requirements. Every month like clockwork I’d sit down at the same sites, play enough low-stakes blackjack to hit the wagering requirements with minimal loss and withdraw. As I was a poor student, getting close to £1000 every month just in recurring bonuses, for almost no work, was VERY exciting to me 😀 .

• Andrew says:

  24 May24 May 13:30

  Thinking about it, I’m sure there were bonus points on Brussel Sprouts at one point. I think it was a lump sum regardless of the volume bought which lead to my other half triumphantly returning home one evening with a single Brussel Sprout!

• ZoeB says:

  24 May24 May 14:09

  I do miss the PTS days, getting home from work to log in and check the latest glitch. Back then I was just happy to pay for Virgin Holidays.
  I think there was a deal once that you could only access on your mobile phone? 250 points on things like tea bags? It was the first I realised that I could access the internet on the flip phone I had a at the time. There were limits per person so several SIM cards and extra clubcard accounts were needed. Does anyone else remember that?
  My use of 3V cards went from paying for my daughters hall fees at the University of Kent, to regularly messing up the payment system for council tax at Surrey Heath. I also ended up having to explain to a CFO at a travel company why I was making so many £25 payments for my Barbados hotel bill, I think he suspected money laundering!
  It also wasn’t for points but I absolutely rinsed a Double the Difference price promotion that Tesco ran. There were lists of items on MSE that Tesco were paying you to take away, oven roasting trays and rack of lamb were among them if I remember rightly. You could get a voucher back a few hours after submitting your reciept.

  • Greenpen says:

    24 May24 May 20:29

    It was Proctor and Gamble household products. I felt sorrow for the bright young marketing manager who went home on Friday feeling the promotion was going well and came back on Monday to the news that Clubcard points equivalent to the GDP of a small country had been given away.

    • Zoe says:

      24 May24 May 20:38

      Apparently it was Unilever as the tea was PG Tips, and my other half once worked for Brooke Bond Oxo when they got taken over by Unilever.

  • The Urbanite says:

    24 May24 May 22:03

    The difference payback schemes all got rinsed. Bottles of champagne, electric toothbrushes and Venus razors were always on half price at a different supermarket, it was a licence to print vouchers at all three of Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda.

• Andrew says:

  24 May24 May 19:12

  Anyone trying this, I have just gone for it- the acknowledgement on Halfords says allow “up to 14 days” for points to post. So it is possible that these will post before the devaluation on the 14th

• Paul says:

  24 May24 May 20:24

  Another Birds Eye veteran here. I remember driving up from SW London to visit a friend in Staffordshire for a night out and leaving at 5am with a route via every Tesco, something like 20 stops. These were the early days of self-service checkouts, I’d buy a basket full of beef dinners, then walk round the shop and buy the same beef dinners again et cetera, and finally get them back in the freezer before defrosting. I have all the receipts somewhere, it was something like 35,000 Clubcard points in a day which translated into mega-BA miles in that era of lower redemption rates, low co-pay, and better availability. Happy times!

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