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"Lug them around" they're not lead bricks. Put them in your wallet. When you pay at a restaurant or coffee shop, they're right there next to your cash or credit

"Lug them around" they're not lead bricks. Put them in your wallet. When you pay at a restaurant or coffee shop, they're right there next to your cash or credit card, ready to be used. Throwing out literal money is just absurd elitism and waste.

ProAm 4y ago
My wallet has spots for a total of 5 cards. Between ID, bank card, credit, medical and building I literally dont have space for it. (Im not buying a new wallet to lug around gift cards). But even historically when I had a bigger wallet that could carry more card I would never remember the off chance I went to one of these stores that I had a card. I go to starbucks maybe once a year (its just not my coffee place). > Throwing out literal money is just absurd elitism and waste. Its not wasted, Starbucks still gets the money, I just don't get anything in return. Gift cards are just thoughtless and pointless in my personal opinion. Give people money.
- triceratops 4y ago
  If you really think gift cards are pointless, stop accepting them. Tell people it's a personal policy. They will respect that. I don't know how you figure it isn't wasted money. Not only did you not receive the good or service that they spent their hard-earned money on - which is fine, you don't have to use it for yourself - you didn't even pass on the gift card and receive some smaller benefit. That's thoughtless and disrespectful - not the act of someone giving you a gift card, but you accepting and throwing it out.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  > Its not wasted, Starbucks still gets the money That counts as "wasted" to me.
JohnFen 4y ago
> Put them in your wallet. I don't have space in my wallet for them, personally. By design. It improved my daily life more than I expected when I stopped using my wallet to carry more than the absolute essentials.

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"Lug them around" they're not lead bricks. Put them in your wallet. When you pay at a restaurant or coffee shop, they're right there next to your cash or credit

by triceratops 4y ago

ProAm 4y ago
My wallet has spots for a total of 5 cards. Between ID, bank card, credit, medical and building I literally dont have space for it. (Im not buying a new wallet to lug around gift cards). But even historically when I had a bigger wallet that could carry more card I would never remember the off chance I went to one of these stores that I had a card. I go to starbucks maybe once a year (its just not my coffee place). > Throwing out literal money is just absurd elitism and waste. Its not wasted, Starbucks still gets the money, I just don't get anything in return. Gift cards are just thoughtless and pointless in my personal opinion. Give people money.
- triceratops 4y ago
  If you really think gift cards are pointless, stop accepting them. Tell people it's a personal policy. They will respect that. I don't know how you figure it isn't wasted money. Not only did you not receive the good or service that they spent their hard-earned money on - which is fine, you don't have to use it for yourself - you didn't even pass on the gift card and receive some smaller benefit. That's thoughtless and disrespectful - not the act of someone giving you a gift card, but you accepting and throwing it out.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  > Its not wasted, Starbucks still gets the money That counts as "wasted" to me.
JohnFen 4y ago
> Put them in your wallet. I don't have space in my wallet for them, personally. By design. It improved my daily life more than I expected when I stopped using my wallet to carry more than the absolute essentials.