Tesco customers could be unintentionally spending an additional £2,600 a year as a result of a simple mistake.
Many shoppers live busy lives and do not have time to physically go shopping for their food anymore.
The pandemic saw a surge in online deliveries as people chose to order from the comfort of their homes, rather than go out and risk catching Covid.
This was especially true for people categorised as being vulnerable to the virus.
Research from Food Standards Scotland found online food shopping rose in value to £951million in 2021, an increase of 109.4 per cent compared to 2019.
Many people switched to online shopping during the pandemic.
Aaron Chown
Tesco profited from soaring demand during the pandemic and an online shopping boom that brought in around 1.2 million new customers.
Post-pandemic, many Britons have continued to shop online out of convenience.
But a simple mistake could mean they are spending an additional £2,600 a year with the supermarket.
Tesco app users are able to repeat their last order, adding or removing items as they please but keeping their core items.
The function makes it quick and easy to reorder without taking up precious time.
But by taking an extra couple of minutes to order a shop from scratch could save shoppers as much as £50 a week on their shop, this adds up to £2,600 a year.
Users can switch to cheaper brands or buy products on offer that they would not see if they used the repeat order function.
For example, if a product was on a buy one get one free offer, a user would not have to purchase it the next week, as long as it was non-perishable.
Heinz soup sells for £1 a tin, but Tesco’s own brand soup sells for as little as 57p.
Tesco shoppers could also make savings by signing up to their clubcard scheme.
Chris Ison
Another example is Listerine’s Total Care mouthwash, priced at a costly £5. The Tesco alternative is just 45p.
Buying frozen can also allow shoppers the flexibility to decide when they want to eat something, without the fear of food going off.
Shoppers can also make huge savings by signing up for Tesco’s clubcard scheme.
They offer hundreds of items at a lower price to customers who sign up.
