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Tesco customer service can be reached on +441992632222, and the help section on tesco.com covers online grocery orders, Clubcard and in store purchases separately, so pick the right one before you start typing. Have with you whatever lets them find the transaction: the order number for a delivery or collection slot, the Clubcard number, or the store, date and till receipt for something bought in a shop.

If the problem happened in a shop, the store manager is worth a try first, because a store can often settle a refund or a replacement on the spot that a call centre would only pass back to them. Charged at the till for a price the shelf did not show? Start your complaint here: we help you write an effective complaint in minutes, drawing on thousands that worked.

In store, take the item back to the customer service desk with the receipt or the bank statement showing the purchase. Tesco's own returns policy sits on top of your legal rights, and it is the legal rights that matter when something is faulty: under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 goods must be of satisfactory quality, fit for purpose and as described, and a fault that shows up in the first thirty days gives you the short term right to reject the item and ask for your money back. Food that is off, spoiled or past its date needs no policy argument at all.

For tesco.com orders, report the problem against the order in your account so the refund attaches to the right one, and photograph anything damaged or spoiled before it goes in the bin. Note the date any refund is promised: refunds that quietly never arrive are one of the most common complaints we see.

Report it against the order rather than as a general complaint. The order number is what lets Tesco see the picked items, the substitutions and the driver's notes, and without it you are arguing from memory. Do it while the slot is recent, list every missing, wrong or damaged line with the amount you were charged for it, and keep the delivery note.

Substitutions you did not want can be handed straight back to the driver at the door, which is far quicker than arguing about them later in the week. If a refund is agreed and then does not show on your statement, chase it in writing with the order number and the date you were promised it, and check whether it was refunded to the card or as a voucher, because those are not the same thing.

When the store and the customer service line have both run out of road, escalate. Tesco's head office is in Welwyn Garden City, and a written escalation works best as a summary rather than a retelling: the reference number from your earlier contact, the dates, what was promised, what actually happened and the specific outcome you want. Keep it to one page and attach the evidence rather than describing it.

A complaint filed through our complaint process backs that escalation up: we bring your case to Tesco's attention through emails, social media and paper complaint letters.

Not if it says your points are about to expire and sends you to a link to redeem them. Texts like that lead to a page dressed up as a Tesco "2026 Reward Program" that asks for your phone number, name, email and home address. Tesco has said it will never email you asking for personal or security information.

So far consumers reported 64 complaints about Tesco here, with an average rating of 1.2 out of 5. The same themes keep coming back: staff who are unhelpful or rude at the desk, faulty or spoiled goods ranging from food that is off to electricals that fail early, online orders that arrive incomplete, wrong or late, and refunds that take repeated chasing.

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