Facts About Gift Cards: New RGCA Data
The GiftNow Blog
May 2022
GiftNow is a proud member of the Retail Gift Card Association (RGCA), a group of over 100 gift card retailers and technology providers committed to promoting and protecting the use of retail gift cards. The RGCA was founded in 2008 to represent the closed-loop gift card industry.... Read the full article now...
New Diversity-in-Gift-Cards Website Provides DEI Resources for Gift Card Industry
diversity-in-giftcards.org
April 21, 2022
Today two industry-leading gift card associations, the Incentive Gift Card Council (IGCC) and the Retail Gift Card Association (RGCA), announced the launch of their new website diversity-in-giftcards.org. The website is one of several initiatives from a collaboration between the two organizations that started in 2020 when RGCA and IGCC leaders agreed the industry needed to take action to help promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.... Read the full article now...
How Walmart thwarted $4 million in elder gift card scam
CNCB.com
April 4, 2022
In the first nine months of 2021, consumers reported losing $148 million in frauds where gift cards were used to pay scammers, according to Federal Trade Commission data... Read the full article now...
Restaurant gift card sales up in 2021, still down over 2019
QSRweb.com
February 8, 2022
Digital card sales in 2021 were the highest they've been in the years included in the report. Sales were driven by the... Read the full article now...
One employee's idea keeps 200 tons of plastic from Landfills
Best Buy - Ale Valeriano
February 1, 2022
We are one of only a handful of retailers to offer customers 100% paper gift cards.... Read the full article now...
Google might've accidentally approved an ad for a Target gift card scam
The Verge
January 18, 2022
It appears that Google inadvertently approved a prominent ad for a phony Target gift card balance checker that’s meant to steal your funds, although it has since removed the ad.... Read the full article now...
Restaurant Gift Cards Sales Up Over Last 2 Years
Retail Consumer Behavior
January 12, 2022
"It's clear that the restaurant industry is starting to recover from the pandemic, but the nature of that recovery will continue to reveal itself as we take a deeper look at the numbers,"... Read the full article now...
Starbucks Rewards : How the coffee Giant's mobile app became a winner
Wall Street Journal
January 12, 2022
WSJ’s Heather Haddon explains why mobile technology has become a business priority for Starbucks and garnered it a loyal customer base... Click here to view Heather Haddon explain...
Holiday Rewind: How the shopping experience changed in 2021
Retail Drive
January 10, 2022
With 2022 now underway, and sales results soon to be rolling in, we take a look back at what defined the 2021 holidays shopping season... Read the full article now...
What Does Fraud Look Like on Digital Wallets?
Card Not Present
January 6, 2022
In late October, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel at the Retail Gift Card Association Forum (RGCA), the premier annual event in the gift card industry, where senior executives from Panera, Disney, Inspire Brands, and Best Buy joined me in discussing the fast-changing gift card landscape... Read the full article now...
Reflections from the Retail Gift Card Association Forum: A fast-changing landscape
Karl Tapales
December 14, 2021
In late October, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel at the Retail Gift Card Association Forum (RGCA), the premier annual event in the gift card industry, where senior executives from Panera, Disney, Inspire Brands, and Best Buy joined me in discussing the fast-changing gift card landscape... Read the full article now...
People are fighting back against gift card scammers. Here's how
Ian Sherr
November 30, 2021
With few safeguards in place to protect you and me from gift card scams, some people are filling in the gaps. Read the full article now...
Gift card scams are growing, and we're all paying the price
Ian Sherr
November 25, 2021
Every year, scammers trick Americans into handing over millions of dollars in gift card payments... Read the full article now...
Supply-Chain Crisis Is Bad for iPhone, Great for Gift Cards
Amelia Pollard and Augusta Saraiva, Yahoo!
October 18, 2021
In an economy hamstrung by all types of global supply-chain snarls, a mounting product shortages - even Apple is reportedly slashing production - are making giving gift cards a fail-safe way to ensure there are presents under the Christmas tree. Read the full article now...
Once a holiday staple, gift cards are now viewed as a stop gap for inventory shortages
Saqib Shah, ModernRetail
October 18, 2021
Faced with acute product shortages, retailers are incorporating the humble gift card into their outsized holiday rescue efforts. Read the full article now...