A Time of Magic

Although you might think that gift cards have been around forever in fact in their current form they’ve quite a recent innovation.

These days you can find a gift card just about everywhere from all the major retailers through to some quite small shops and that’s before you even consider the likes of phone cards. So many that I’m sure that just about everyone has received one at some time in their lives and, in case you’re wondering, there are collectors of the things too.

One big downside is that you can usually only use the card in the outlet that issues them which is more than a notional problem as people are finding out at the moment since the cards issued by retailers that have gone bankrupt can’t generally be used.

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