On Friday (December 12th) Tesco are opening their Half Price Christmas sale, cutting prices on hundreds of products. From bikes to beef, fine fragrance to Finest Christmas puddings, food and non-food products all feature in the Tesco Half Price sale.

Christmas cheer is spreading across the Tesco UK website and early-bird shoppers are getting rather excited by some great offers running on Tesco.com this week. From wine, to books, to furniture and more, these latest Tesco offers will save you a bundle.

Christmas goes live on the Tesco.com site this week and, to celebrate, Tesco are offering Free Delivery on all Tesco Direct orders over £50. Tesco Direct is already one of the most price competitive retailers in the UK and with free delivery will be even better value.

Tesco Direct has launched its new Autumn/Winter ranges in style, with 1,000 pages of products at great Tesco prices. From iPods to teapots and dining tables to dishwashers - there's something for everyone. To celebrate the launch, Tesco are offering all their customers Triple Clubcard points.

Tesco Direct: There are some great further reductions in Tesco Online Grocery Store Clearance event, a last week of Amazing August offers and a great range of Back to School products.

Tesco Online Grocery Store: An Amazing August Offers flyer with great deals has landed in store this week. There are tons of half price deals in there. Of course the Catalogue Clearance and Back to School campaigns are continuing as well.

The Crazy Catalogue Clearance continues at Tesco Online Grocery Store with many further price cuts and some great Back to School deals including offers on desktops, bikes and student furniture, and double Clubcard points on all flowers and plants until 19/08/2007.

School is out for summer and there is now a good opportunity to pick up great deals across Tesco.com, where Tesco Direct has 1000's of items to clear, including up to 50% off on selected DIY and up to 50% off on selected watches.

Tesco PAYG: Tesco Mobile is an easy way to talk and text for less because they really do make it simple to understand and easy to save. Tesco has a full range of up to date handsets and three simple flat rate pay as you go tariffs to choose from. The current promotion is: £20 off any Tesco Mobile phone over £50 when £10 airtime is purchased.

When Tesco online customers order any courier delivered bouquet or plant this week from the Mother's Day range online, Tesco.com will throw in a pamper treatment worth up to £35, absolutely free. (Mother's Day is March 18th).

Tesco.com is offering 20% and more off all Champagne and sparkling wine for one week only, along with a massive stock clearance at Tesco Direct. Customers also have the chance to win a diamond necklace with Tesco.com Flowers.

In the run-up to Christmas a record-breaking 1.3 million shoppers ordered groceries and presents from Tesco.com, an increase of roughly 30% over last year. The figures provide plenty of evidence that, while some traditional retailers may have seen a slow-down, Internet sales, for Tesco at least, are bouyant.

Order Christmas bouquets by 5pm on 21st December (Thursday) to receive them in time for Christmas and receive free Belgian Chocolates with all courier bouquets this week. Also, free delivery on orders over £99.

Since early Tuesday, Tesco.com and Tesco Direct have been experiencing some unplanned down-time, with the sites being inaccessible. With UK Internet shopping sales expected to average £4m an hour during the Christmas season, you can be sure that they're working very, very hard to rectify! (now resolved)

In an untimely Christmas surprise for many other high-street retailers, Tesco is to begin selling clothes online from this weekend, in a four week trial, further expanding its online offerings.