At least at Safeway, this week brings a new gift card giveaway: $10 credit with every $100-or-more purchase of Visa gift cards (not the Vanilla ones, the straightforward gift cards) at Safeway. If you need groceries (and who doesn't?) this is a pretty good deal, especially if you have a certain AmEx (and therefore the $5.95 fee is essentially negated.)

Sadly, these $10 credits are only apparently useable one at a time, and don't appear to apply to gift cards. But if you are willing to run a bunch of smallish transactions, or if you walk home from work past a Safeway, as I do, and can just drop in once a day and do your grocery shopping piecemeal, then it's a great deal.

(I wonder if Safeway hates me yet? I only buy the gift cards from them, and I redeem the $10 credits on loss-leaders. I buy all the rest of my groceries at my local neighborhood grocery store.)