In June I had no issues buying VGC with Amex GC.
Starting in July every time I bought any sort of gift card (vgc or regular retailer) they wanted to verify my name on the card that was used. In the end they let me purchase all three times even using a non personalized GC but that was only after I kindly asked that they please let me...and I've gotten to know most of the people there as I am there every other day or so (less than a block from my home so I buy groceries "as needed" for freshness and to save space)...but I doubt I will do it much more with AGC. They seem uncomfortable with it each time so I assume they probably got a memo recently. Not a big deal - I have a wg, cvs, and Kroger all right beside each other...so I would liquidate a 2k with 2 at cvs, one at wg, and one at Kroger to simply spread out the hits less at each store...guess I will drop the Kroger. Too nice of a store and good people to wanna burn anything there - they have no issues with my getting MO all day long.