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Because they’re useful and well liked by consumers?

• lxgr 10mo ago
  Who actually likes gift cards, as in, would still use them despite better alternatives existing? If giving/receiving cash wasn't already illegal or socially unacceptable, gift card issuers would have started lobbying for that yesterday. Other than that original use case, many people use them as a form of poorly functional digital cash (since it's not fungible across issuers) that really ought to exist natively in a currency these days.
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  • compsciphd 10mo ago
    I regularly got dunkin donuts, starbucks and the like gift cards for less the face value (sometimes half of face) and therefore strongly preferred using them when I shopped at those stores (at least when I had a balance).