Tesco has announced a major change to its Clubcard which is great news for shoppers.
Customers using the Clubcard & Grocery app will receive coupons three times more often from Christmas as part of the program revamp.
More than four million shoppers who use the app will receive personalized coupons every two weeks, up from a maximum of eight times a year.
Coupons will be selected based on what customers buy and will include bonus points and discounts that they can use in-store and online.
Coupons will be digital and stored on the Clubcard & Grocery app.
If the trial is successful, it could be rolled out to more Tesco customers, The Mirror reports.
The Clubcard app is different from the Clubcard & Grocery app.
The old Clubcard application will close in 2023.
Customers will need to download the Tesco Grocery & Clubcard app instead, which will replace it.
Tesco consumers who receive their Clubcard statement and vouchers by post will continue to do so if they wish.
The Tesco Grocery & Clubcard app allows customers to shop in-store and online, earn Clubcard points and redeem Clubcard coupons and vouchers.
It also has a number of other new features, including a stock checker, a shopping list function and a tool for customers to pay for purchases, earn Clubcard points and redeem coupons with a single scan. .
Alessandra Bellini, Chief Customer Officer of Tesco, said: “Our customers love how their Clubcard helps them save money on purchases while earning Clubcard points to invest in those little treats like going out and shopping. restaurant meals, or to help reduce the cost of their groceries and fuel.”
This week Tesco launched its first ever ‘reverse supermarket’ as food banks expect to face their toughest winter ever.
Customers simply had to pay for the products they chose and Tesco matched the value and donated it to charity.
The London pop-up store is now closed.
Food inflation has risen again, adding pressure on supermarket shoppers as analysts warn of an “increasingly bleak” winter.
New figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) show food inflation hit 12.4% in the year to November – the highest rate since BRC records began.
In-store prices rose 11.6% in October and are now 7.4% higher than last November.
The BRC-Nielsen IQ store price index shows fresh food inflation rising further to 14.3% from 13.3% last month.
The cost of meat, eggs and dairy saw the biggest price increase, while coffee prices also “soared”.
Soaring energy, feed and transport prices are driving these increases, the cost of which is passed on to customers in stores.