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Old Aug 9, 2013 | 5:15 pm
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Originally Posted by bocastephen
I received an email from a colleague who participates in our 'program' - he wrote something about Chase developing some sort of POS code to identify gift card purchases from office supply stores so they can be blocked from earning points and treated as cash equivalents. I've asked for more information, especially as I doubt this would be possible as every office supply store would need to align their POS to identify and report a SKU batch to Chase, and probably only Chase unless there is some other way of handling this that I'm not aware of.

Anyone else heard of this?
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