Originally Posted by
ianturner
just bought 4 ice cream's with gift cards at my local CVS....had the manager check me out....didn't ask any questions and had no problems with letting me use gift cards.
This has been my experience at CVS, too. I bought 4@500, and they told me we needed to break it up into 2@2@$500 "to get the register to take it," which was thoughtful advice.
It does seem to be a binary story-by-store decision. If a given store manager took a loss on a GC deal, perhaps s/he is instructing staff with a tighter policy than corporate.
They have so many gift cards at my local CVS...they now have an end-of-aisle location in the store...which shows either it is making money or they think it will make money...seems unlikely they'd preclude card-funded purchases systemwide.