Given this lock-down period, I like many find it more appealing to do my grocery shopping online and today I visited the Tesco website to do the big shop, which we do every two or three months.
It should also be said that this Corona Virus period has shown us the benefit of the local village shop, and a great personal service while bringing the community together.
Therefore, much of the essential day to day items and fruit and vegetables we source from the local shop, while you can’t beat meat from the local butchers.
It is more important than ever I feel to support local businesses.
However, the money saving tip I wanted to share with you today is ‘don’t forget to use your Tesco discount vouchers, which may have accumulated on your Tesco card, lying dormant in your account!’
Just as I was about to pay for my groceries, amounting to the princely sum of £143.74, I suddenly recalled a recent e-mail I received from Tesco alerting me to my discount vouchers.
Therefore, I logged on to my account and with a little bit of cut and pasting discount codes in to the relevant boxes at checkout, resulted in a saving of £36.
It was a great feeling that the bill was reduced to around £107.
What was quite remarkable is that the earliest discount vouchers went back a year and a half!
This is a timely reminder for you to check to see if you have any discount vouchers lying around the house, as they say that it is quite staggering the total value of discount vouchers which go unused within a given year, as shoppers forget about them!
Happy shopping folks!
Aled Evans
Better Mental Health 