Tesco shoppers issued two-week deadline to get free cash for Christmas

Tesco shoppers have just over two weeks left to get free cash from the supermarket to spend at Christmas.

The Clubcard Christmas Savers scheme allows you to save up your Clubcard points throughout the year to use at Christmas time. But you can also top up your account with cash - and then, the supermarket will give you a bonus on top of your savings in the form of Tesco vouchers.

The deadline to top-up your Clubcard Christmas Savers account is 11.59pm on October 17 - so you don't have long left to opt in. You usually get your bonus in your November statement. The smallest bonus is worth £1.50 when you save between £25 and £49.50, and the biggest is £12, which you get when you save between £200 and £360.

The bonus vouchers are only valid for three months and expire if not used. The larger top-up vouchers, so the money you have added to your account, are valid for two years, so there’s no rush to spend them at Christmas. You can top up your account online on the Tesco website or through the Tesco app - unfortunately, you cannot top up in stores.

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You can spend your bonus vouchers on the Tesco website, in store or on petrol - but you can’t boost them with Clubcard partners. A Tesco Spokesperson said: "Our Clubcard Christmas Savers scheme helps customers to save their Clubcard vouchers throughout the year so they can use them for their big Christmas shop. Customers can now top-up their Christmas Savers account online, and manage their account through our website or app, making it easier than ever to earn bonus vouchers to spend at Tesco."

It comes as Tesco is set to unveil a huge shake-up to its online shopping experience. The supermarket shut down the non-food Tesco Direct section of its website six years ago to concentrate on its core business, leaving shoppers only able to buy clothes in-store. Then in June, the company launched the new Tesco Marketplace website, which sells garden essentials, toys, home goods and kitchenware, alongside baby and pet products.

Now, after years of questions from confused customers, Tesco is now expected to make its own-brand F&F clothing range available to buy online once again. Drapers reports that the F&F brand will soon be relaunched to coincide with the move. The online roll-out - expected before the end of the year - means customers will once again be able to order F&F clothes directly to their home address through the Tesco website.

A Tesco spokesperson told the Mirror: “We’re always looking for ways to improve our online offer for customers and we’ll keep them posted if and when we have anything to share.”

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