Article: Tesco offers loyalty bonus with discount card

Tesco yesterday became the first leading British supermarket chain to launch a nationwide "loyalty" card - a scheme which allows regular shoppers to tot up points and use them to buy goods at a discount, writes David Nicholson-Lord.

Tesco's Clubcard, which has been tested at 14 stores over the past year, will be available to 8 million customers at its 500 stores from Monday. The company said 250,000 customers have taken up the card at test stores and it had proved "enormously popular".

Clubcard holders must spend a minimum of pounds 10 to obtain two points. After that every pounds 5 spent earns one point, which is worth about 5p. Money-off vouchers are sent every quarter and shoppers have ...

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