How UK parents can save on the weekly shop and fund kids' tech
Turn the weekly shop into the next family iPad — without changing a single habit.
Running a family household means the weekly shop is basically a fixed cost. You know roughly what it'll be before you've even picked up the trolley — bread, milk, fruit, school lunches, the twelve-pack of yoghurts that vanishes by Wednesday.
That predictability is the whole point. If a spend is already baked into every week, month, and year of your life, it's the perfect thing to route through a system that quietly hands you money back.
This guide shows you how to turn the weekly shop (plus kids' toys, clothes and the baby aisle) into store credit for the family iPad, a replacement kids' tablet, a new Echo for the kitchen — whatever the house actually needs next.
Buy the gift card
Pick any brand and pay as you would for tech. The code is sent straight to your email.
We reward you
A1 Tech Deals credits your account with store credit — funded by us, not the brand.
Spend it on tech
Use the credit at checkout on anything at a1techdeals.com — phones, laptops, accessories.
The math on a typical family grocery spend
That's £312 a year of store credit — more than enough for a family iPad.
Tech for the whole family
The rate on grocery cards isn't huge — it's supermarkets, not restaurants — but the spend is relentless. £450 a month is a fairly ordinary family-of-four shop, and the cards are the same Tesco, ASDA, Aldi, Iceland and Morrisons you're already using. No new app, no loyalty-point conversion faff. Buy a £100 card in the morning, pay at the till with it that afternoon.
Add in George at ASDA for school uniforms, Tesco for the clothing and home aisle, and a little Farmfoods or Iceland top-up, and the credit builds faster than you'd expect over a year.
Cards made for the family shop
TGJones UK
Just Eat Groceries
Deliveroo Groceries
Uber Eats Groceries
Tesco
ASDA
ASDA George
Waitrose & Partners
Farmfoods
Iceland
M&S
McColls
Two real family setups
The weekly-shop family
Amy and Dan feed a family of four on roughly £420/mo of groceries split between Tesco and ASDA, plus £40/mo at Farmfoods for the freezer top-up.
£325 toward an iPad Air 11-inch — a new family tablet, effectively free by next year.
The school-uniform run
Claire does a September uniform shop at ASDA George (£180) and tops up with three pairs of school shoes from Tesco F&F (£90).
Not life-changing on its own — but do it every year and it's a free Fire tablet by the time the youngest is in Year 3.
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Start turning the weekly shop into a family tablet
Same supermarkets. Same shop. Store credit added to your A1 Tech Deals account automatically.
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