Free beer. It almost exists, thanks to Tesco.
Bonus Clubcard point offers returned to the shelves last week after a long absense, and they came back in style. There's some fantastic value among them. The full list is here:
http://www.supermarketspecialoffers.com/TescoPointOffers.aspx
For example, 6 bottles of Heineken for £7.34, with bonus 200 clubcard points untll 21st July.
Points are worth 4p each if you spend them on Clubcard Rewards, so you get you £8 back for every £7.34 you spend. Although £7.34 is not a great price for 6 bottles of beer, it effectively costs you nothing.
Buy 7 packs and you not only make enough on top to cover the delivery charge, the £50 spend should also trigger a 5p per litre fuel discount voucher. There are also voucher codes floating around for discounts or further bonus points when you spend £50 or more. Each time you do this, you get 42 bottles of better-than-free beer.
Claire and I a serial multi-accounters with Tesco, and two of our accounts accepted a "Save £10 when you spend £50" coupon!
If wine is more your thing, there's a bottle of Rose or Brut for £10.99 with 300 free points (worth £12) and some kind of red wine for £5.99 with 150 points back (£6).
Or, slightly more mundane, there's several offers on washing powder. Don't knock it, you'll always use that sort of stuff eventually and it doesn't go off.
What's this got to do with the kind of stuff I usually write about, apart from being a fairly oblique +EV play?
Well, there are now two ways that Tesco Deals can get you to Las Vegas (or many other placed in the world, if you're that way inclined) which is why I'm now trying harder than ever to eek every last point out of the system.
As well as Virgin Holidays (who I'm not a fan of) you can convert your points to British Airways Executive Club miles. BA start flying non-stop from London Heathrow to Las Vegas in October.
Free beer if you buy a holiday, or a free holiday if you buy beer. Whichever way you look at it, that's a superb deal.
