Safeway and Albertsons now let you load multiple gift cards into a single “Safeway Cash” wallet in your online account. The big catch, readers point out, is that once you add a card into Safeway Cash, it becomes usable online-only. You won’t be able to use those funds at the register in-store.
Also note, if you apply a gift card to an online order, that also ‘redeems’ the gift card to your online Wallet and locks it out of store use.
I doubt many people will use the Safeway Wallet for gift cards given this limitation. We saw Costco make a similar online Wallet recently, but with Costco you can still use the balance in-store as well via the app.
Hat tip to reader RM
Chuck
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