Tesco Fuel Save

neilpost

projexe wrote: »

Tesco are trumpeting a "great offer" in 'Fuelsave'.

Yet I remember the days when you spent £50 and got a voucher for 5p off petrol. In this offer you get 2p for each multiple of £50 and you have to start saving again at the end of each calendar month when your total will be wiped!

Bearing in mind the average car (say a Ford Focus) has a tank size of 53 litres (call it 50 because you'll never be bone dry), your saving is £1 per tankful on each £50 spent in store. In other words 2% discount.

Wow!

Sorry, Tesco, but it's not bringing me back from Lidl.

Exactly - not sure why this is getting so much prominence and a MSE article bigging it up - has MSE lost it's edge since selling out to MoneySuperMarket ??

.., as compared to the simple 5p off for a 50p shop, Tesco Fuel save sucks. Sainsbury's will be laughing hem selves silly - indeed I got a fuel 6p off for a £20 shop voucher, and other goodies through the door the other day from Sainsbury's.

Tesco Fuel Save - worse than previous deals, by far.

no1catman

neilpost wrote: »

Exactly - not sure why this is getting so much prominence and a MSE article bigging it up - has MSE lost it's edge since selling out to MoneySuperMarket ??

.., as compared to the simple 5p off for a 50p shop, Tesco Fuel save sucks. Sainsbury's will be laughing hem selves silly - indeed I got a fuel 6p off for a £20 shop voucher, and other goodies through the door the other day from Sainsbury's.

Tesco Fuel Save - worse than previous deals, by far.

"5p off for 50p shop" wow that would be a good one.


Yes, you may have had a voucher from Sainsbury - but you'll have to use that within the next fortnight. Maybe you've only recently filled up.


The Tesco Fuel Save is on-going - you don't have to do a big 'shop', all small shops will be combined. Your receipt will show the fuel save pence p/ltr off to be used by the end of the next month.


One of the things to guard against, is someone else in the household who has a keyfob card - can use the 'fuel save' before you do !!

Mrshorthouse

We don't go to Tesco that often but last week went in and spent over £50 so that was 2p off fuel. The clubcard had 4p that needed using by the end of May so we called in for the fuel. What I did not understand was we could only use the 4p off and not the 2p that we had earned on the day. Any ideas ?

no1catman

Mrshorthouse wrote: »

We don't go to Tesco that often but last week went in and spent over £50 so that was 2p off fuel. The clubcard had 4p that needed using by the end of May so we called in for the fuel. What I did not understand was we could only use the 4p off and not the 2p that we had earned on the day. Any ideas ?

The money you spent in April credits you (2p for every £50.00) with a value to use by the end of May, the money you spend in
May, credits you with a value (in multiples of 2p) to use by the end of June etc.

Mrshorthouse

So that 2p off can be spent in June then but that will still make it more expensive fuel than local discount garage.