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Stores hope gift cards give post-Christmas lift (AP)

21 hours ago ago from News Makers

NEW YORK – As merchants look to this weekend and the rest of the Christmas aftermath, they're counting on droves of gift card-toting customers to return to malls. But those numbers may be smaller as the industry braces for what some analysts believe will be a second consecutive holiday season of declines in gift card sales . The final word on holiday gift card sales is not out. Mall of America is seeing gift cards flat through this ...

2009 Gift Card Trends – East Coast Storm Reduces Sales Volume

1 hour, 18 minutes ago ago from Prepaid Debit Cards | Teen Debit Card | Prepaid Gift Cards» Prepaid Debit Card, Teen Card and Gift Cards — Everything You Need to Know

Gift card sales in the fourth shopping week before Christmas suffered from a large weekend snow storm that hit much of the North East on the last Saturday before Christmas. First Data Corporation continues to track gift card sales data and have compiled their gift card trend data for the first four weeks of the 2009 holiday shopping season. First Data continues to track gift card sales trends in the 2009 season, comparing actual card ...

Mama needs an upgrade

25 minutes ago ago from Penelope Loves Lists | organize | organization blog | pretty office supplies | Inspiration for the Unapologetically Organized Soul

December 26, 2009 Boxing Day (December 26th) finds me cleaning up from this Christmas and setting myself up for next year. This calls for some upgraded gift wrap organization. I've had my current no-frills system for years now and it's gotten ungainly. I think it's time I separate my Christmas wrapping stuff from the other holiday wrapping gear. I saw this Gift Wrap from The Container Store over at Deliciously Organized (a great new ...

Is it Greener to Spend Those Gift Cards Online or in the Store?

21 hours ago ago from Green Daily

Gift Card Bonanza, Photo: Arvindgrover, Flickr Lament all you want, purists, but a pretty significant huge chunk of the gifts exchanged this year won't come in gift wrapped packages. Instead, they'll come in the form of plastic cards that represent credits stored in a database somewhere. Sure, to the untrained eye, your pile of Christmas goodies may look like a boring stack of envelopes, but you know what it really is: An after ...

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The Daily Grind: Last chance at presents

4 hours ago ago from Massively

The celebrations are over, the dinner is eaten, and the underside of the tree is cleared. It's the end of the holiday season, and if you want to be morbid it's also the furthest possible point until more Christmas. But the day after the event is usually all but an extension of the holiday -- we return unwanted gifts, meet up with more distant relations, and start using our various gift cards. In a way, the holiday doesn't end until the day ...

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