What happens to all those unused gift cards

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Gift cards are displayed at a Target store, in New York/
Americans are expected to spend nearly $30 billion on gift cards this holiday season, according to the National Retail Federation. Restaurant gift cards are the most popular.

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Costco stops giving Instacart shoppers gift cards as refunds, amid claims they were being misused

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A shopper wearing a baseball cap loads several cases of bottled water onto an orange flat-bed cart at a Costco store.
Instacart shoppers at Costco will no longer get gift cards when they return undeliverable items for a refund, Instacart said.

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