Smaller stores honoring gift cards from large retailers

Smaller stores honoring gift cards from large retailers
Tags: Customer Service, Retail - Electronics, Retail - General, Specialty Stores, Stored Value/ Gift Cards
January 5, 2009

The Toledo Blade: For the fourth year, Culture Clash, a Toledo, Ohio, store that sells CDs, records, and pop culture merchandise, is accepting gift cards of other retailers on a dollar-for-dollar basis. Meanwhile, Toledo's Appliance Center is accepting gift cards, at 50 percent of their value, from Circuit City Inc., which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November and plans to close 155 stores nationwide.

Both retailers said their aim is to win new customers, while promoting local retailers.

"We feel it's a good way to initiate the public into buying local," said Pat O'Connor, Culture Clash owner.

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