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Old Dec 5, 2014, 7:50 pm
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iahphx
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My town's weekly supermarket circulars show up in my mailbox on Fridays, when most of the weekly sales start. I looked today to see if -- like last year -- there were ANY good X-mas season gift card offers. There weren't: all of the deals were modest and not "game-able" for folks want to buy the Visa/Mastercards. Like one store (I think it was Safeway) would give you $10 in groceries if you bought $100 in gift cards but, if you bought Visas/MCs, you could only buy the $25 and $50 denominations. Another store would make a $5 "charitable donation" if you bought $100 in gift cards.

Seems like somebody at the gift card companies has figured out that these promos can be "abused." I won't be surprised if the Giant/Stop & Shop deals are a thing of the past.
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