Introduction Yesterday, I went to my local Kroger’s and noticed 2 new packages on the pegs. See the 2 middle cards on the second row. They seem to be replacing the older style cards. Fees are still $5.95 per card and issued by US Bank. They also now use a new web site – www.prepaidgiftbalance.com […]
Introduction Yesterday, I went to my local Kroger affiliate, QFC, and picked up some variable (ones that go up to $500) merchant gift cards. I walked by self checkout and noticed it looked different than before. Instead of going to the regular checkout lane with my GCs, I decided to try out the new self […]
Introduction Kroger is where most MS’ers buy their VGC since they sell USB GC that can be unloaded at WMT. Safeway has a cashier/store specific YMMV on purchasing VGC with cc. Drugstores sell Vanilla cards which is so painful to load at WMT that no one even bothers. Albertson’s has this weird 1 card per […]
The other day, I bought $2K of gift cards at my local Kroger affiliate, and for the past couple of months, I’ve been double checking the activation receipts with the cards as I’m walking out of the door (in case there are problems.) Anyway, today, after the cashier typed in my driver’s license and pushed […]
While I haven’t blogged about it yet, but almost everyone already knows, is that one of the easily accessible gift cards that you can buy and liquidate at Walmart are the USBank gift cards sold at Kroger and its affiliates. Some time last week, they changed their policy about the max amount of gift cards […]