#PSA: perhaps this is already widely known, I have no idea. But I just learned about this last night, and found the experience rather distressing, so I thought I'd share.
If, like me, you have been carefully saving #grocery #GiftCards here in Canada, knowing that they are not allowed to expire under our laws, it is extremely horrifying that when the rainy day comes that you choose to use one, it doesn't work. And the implication is that perhaps you didn't actually pay for the card -- as in, did a little sticky fingering of some sort. 😡
Well, it turns out the grocery card that I got back in the day when #Superstore gave those out for reaching a minimum threshold of grocery purchases are so old that they are NOT in the system database, so the only way to use them is contact the phone number on the back and go through a digital process to have them assessed and then replaced through a digital gift card.
Tl;DR: extra steps may be necessary to activate old(er) gift cards in Canada