Where in AZ? I bought 3K tonight in one transaction...

Was at a cvs thurs nite and got $4k vanilla. No issues whatsoever. Is this $2k rule regional or store specific?

Picked up 5k, 3k, and 3k (30 mins ago) over the past 3 days, at 3 different stores without any hassles. Either its a regional issue or a rogue cashier again.

Also, the 6 stores around me have always had a decent amount of cards but the 3 I hit the last 3 days are now carrying a stupendous amount of beans. Anyone else noticing this?

My three favorite stores have had an increased number the past few weeks as well.... but OTOH I've never seen one VR at the two stores closest to my house.

Yes, and I easily saw nearly 100 at one of the locations near me that consistently only had about 20-30 in previous months.

yes, I wrote a comment about it 2weeks ago.

supply up or demand down? or both

I can see signs of demand down because of 2 reasons

1) not many new credit card application offers

2) MVD is almost ended.

And the CTYP one-year introductory promos ending. The Dividend promo should create demand for this month but come February they'll have to sell these things at a discount to move them. :p

Not mine, I've got 6 more months!! But I'll take the discount.:D

Naw, its just the winter storms cutting down on CVS traffic. Brrrrr - it was freezing over in Coral Gables last night when I opened our freezer to get ice cubes.:p

Well said, we got a little cold last night with the top down coming back from CVS in which I bought 5K of beans.....

It's also possible people aren't back into their normal routines yet. Wait for the commuters tomorrow to start buying up the beans again.

I bought 2K of beans today. Cashier calls over the manager, he would only let me do 2K, apparently there is another MSer that goes there too. He was a bit skiddish but 2 is better than none. He felt better after the DL scan though. I'll keep trying there to see how it goes. CVS in Ohio.

Ran into something weird tonight: US Bank flagged one of my VR buys, like they do, but then the purchase kept getting rejected. I was on the phone with the rep trying to complete the sale, and she asked me to have the CVS guy punch in the CC numbers. Apparently, the system wouldn't let him do that for a gift card sale. The manager came over and she couldn't either. Weird.

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