Giving with one hand. . .

I got a letter in the post from Tesco this evening. “Save up to €64 with the attached money off coupons”, it said. “Right so,” I said to myself, “I don’t mind if I do” and began carefully detaching the four €16 coupons from the cover letter (they can be used when I spend over €160 in my local Tesco). It was only then that I realised that the first €16 voucher was valid from the 14th to the 20th of January and the second one expired on January 27th, two days ago. So, Tesco’s tardiness in sending me the money off vouchers has cost me up to - to use the phrase so beloved of marketeers everywhere - €32. A cynic might suspect that the vouchers arrived late on purpose thereby saving Tesco a few bob.