Inappropriate Tesco Coupons

LizziePoppins

Hi, I wondered if anyone else receives Club card coupons from Tesco that are totally inappropriate? For the second time I have received £18 off a £120 shop and 2 x £12 off a £120 shop, but as 2 people living on our pensions we can’t make use of them! I have asked them to send us more appropriate coupons but have had no luck at all!

Penguin_

They're obviously trying to entice you to spend more in store with them....

MattMattMattUK

LizziePoppins said:

Hi, I wondered if anyone else receives Club card coupons from Tesco that are totally inappropriate? For the second time I have received £18 off a £120 shop and 2 x £12 off a £120 shop, but as 2 people living on our pensions we can’t make use of them! I have asked them to send us more appropriate coupons but have had no luck at all!

These are designed to try and entice you to spend more there, maybe to do a big one off shop where you stock up with things, or from your buying patterns they think you are buying other items elsewhere and they are trying to get you to spend everything in one place. 

They are not going to pay any attention to your communications, all reward/loyalty schemes are managed by algorithms based on incredibly large data sets, they are not set by people. 

YBR

I thought that was the point - they know your shopping habits and try to incentivise you to spend more, or buy more higher-margin goods. I never expect to get vouchers from things we regularly buy anyway.

Once my husband and I were offered a voucher for 3p of fuel if we spent £10 more, as we struggled to cram our shopping into hiking rucksacks. Poor checkout person got asked whether they really thought that we could (a) carry any more, or (b) would be carrying it anyway if we owned a car.

J63320

I’ve found that if Tesco send coupons like this and I don’t use them, then after a few weeks they’ll send some more with a lower threshold. If I don’t “bite” at that point, I’ll get more with ever-decreasing thresholds until they reach the level that will tempt me!

LizziePoppins

Unfortunately this is the second time in a row we have received these coupons, we would need to spend £360 over 3 weeks for just 2 of us, it’s just totally inappropriate. If they were smaller we would use them and they would get our business, now it’s Aldi here we come!

swingaloo

Me as well but mine are £10 of a £70 shop which is not too bad but to use them all you would have to spend the £70 for 3 consecutive weeks which I wouldnt do.

Brie

Wondering how you get these Tescos coupons.  All I get are the quarterly (or whatever) clubcard money off ones with a few things like "25 points if you buy carrots".

itsthelittlethings

I don’t get any coupons and I’ve got a Clubcard.

pseudodox

I am always being sent coupons for things I never have & never will buy.  If Tesco think they can entice me to buy something I don't want they are sadly mistaken.  My current "offer" is £6 off a £40 shop, valid for one week, then £4 off a £40 shop for each of the next 2 weeks.  As a single pensioner household I rarely spend over £30 in a week.  I will get that £6 discount by stocking up on loo rolls, tinned goods, rice, toothpaste.  But I don't have limitless cupboard space nor do I want to shell out £120 over 3 weeks.

And this is the first offer I have had since 2023, & got very few coupons all last year.  I twice got a till coupon for something my local store does not stock.  So much for gathering my profile from Clubcard!

SuzeQStan

We get coupons on the Tesco app and I agree with OP none of them are anything we would be able to use. I’ve stopped looking at them even though they send me emails asking me to look at the newest coupons