Gift cards have become increasingly ubiquitous over the course of the past few decades, to the point that plenty of stores, especially supermarkets, drug stores, and convenience stores, sell arrays of them that can be spent elsewhere. Before gift cards, though, there were gift certificates, which were generally sold by the stores where they’d be used. In time, gift cards replaced them, as there was often no good way to keep track of gift certificate balances and they were
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