Supermarket giant Tesco has today confirmed that it will be making a major change to its home delivery charges - and it is bad news for shoppers.
The UK's largest grocer will be increasing its minimum spend for home delivery orders to £50, which is a £10 increase from the current £40 minimum.
Coming into effect for online shoppers from Sunday, May 2, the increase will also mean that shoppers with a basket under the £50 minimum will be subject to a £5 surcharge - which is currently only £4.
However, Click and Collect orders will remain at the current minimum £25 spend across all Tesco stores in the UK, with a £5 fee for anyone with a basket under that requirement.
The new home delivery increase has not gone down well with shoppers, as many have flocked to Twitter to express their disappointment at the supermarket.
One person tweeted: "I see @tesco are increasing their minimum basket for home delivery to £50. I do my best to keep my baskets *under* £50 so that sucks..."
A second person fumed: "@Tesco I note with dismay your intended increase of minimum basket amount for home delivery. A £10 increase is huge. As a disabled, housebound customer this will impact me greatly. My income is already limited and I have to rely on home deliveries. Please think again."
A third tweeted: "In a cost of living crisis, @Tesco are raising the minimum basket value for home delivery by £10 to £50, and if you don't meet that, you get what is essentially a penalty of £5. Really helping the people that are struggling. Who's stupid idea is this."
A spokesperson for Tesco told the Daily Record: "To ensure we can continue to serve our online customers as effectively as possible, from May 2 we are making some changes to our minimum basket threshold, the first change we are making in nearly eight years. For the vast majority of our customers, there will be no change to the way they shop."
It comes just after the supermarket also announced that it would be cutting the value of its Clubcard Rewards scheme, with points being reduce to twice their value from June 14.
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