Tesco makes announcement that will affect anyone with a Clubcard

Supermarket giant Tesco has announced a change that will affect everyone with a Clubcard. It's estimated that around 20 million people in the UK are currently Clubcard holders.

Tesco has announced that from May, automatic statements and vouchers will stop arriving through letterboxes, unless the customer makes a specific request for physical coupons. Instead, any accumulated points will be transferred into vouchers over email, with a barcode for consumers to scan at the checkout in stores.

Tesco told the Mirror it will make the change for those who regularly shop online, and that those users will get an email letting them know about the shake-up. Not all customers will be affected. If you have received an email and want to keep receiving your quarterly Clubcard statement and vouchers by post, you'll need to actively opt back in.

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You can do this by signing into your MyClubcard account online, clicking on 'statement preferences' and changing it back to 'by post' by May 5. If you change your preferences after 5 May, you'll receive your May statement and vouchers by email, but will then receive your August statement and vouchers by post.

The shake-up comes amid a store transformation that will see the grocer, the largest in the UK, open 59 new branches over the next 12 months. It follows the decision to axe its Metro store format under a restructuring last year.

Chief executive Ken Murphy said the latest opening programme will take it to a total of over 2,000 Express stores and 1,001 shops. “Our priority is to be the most convenient retailer,” Murphy said.

“That means serving customers wherever, whenever and however they want. No