Originally Posted by happyland

I just walked into my local Staples to take advantage of this week's GC rebates, and to my surprise all of the $200 denomination gift cards were gone from the rack!
Thought this was perhaps like last time where I had to ask for them at the register, but the manager told me that the cards were just being discontinued. Anyone have any insight into this?
This is a Staples in the Bay Area that's relatively little-trafficked by MSers (i.e. they usually had plenty of $200 cards in stock).