I hope you can take a step back and understand how wild it is that carrying a plastic card in your pocket for 2 minutes while you exit your building and hand it to pretty much anyone is too "inconvenient" and you'd rather throw away the $$.
"Lug them around" they're not lead bricks. Put them in your wallet. When you pay at a restaurant or coffee shop, they're right there next to your cash or credit card, ready to be used.
Throwing out literal money is just absurd elitism and waste.
My wallet has spots for a total of 5 cards. Between ID, bank card, credit, medical and building I literally dont have space for it. (Im not buying a new wallet to lug around gift cards). But even historically when I had a bigger wallet that could carry more card I would never remember the off chance I went to one of these stores that I had a card. I go to starbucks maybe once a year (its just not my coffee place).
Throwing out literal money is just absurd elitism and waste.
Its not wasted, Starbucks still gets the money, I just don't get anything in return.
Gift cards are just thoughtless and pointless in my personal opinion. Give people money.
If you really think gift cards are pointless, stop accepting them. Tell people it's a personal policy. They will respect that.
I don't know how you figure it isn't wasted money. Not only did you not receive the good or service that they spent their hard-earned money on - which is fine, you don't have to use it for yourself - you didn't even pass on the gift card and receive some smaller benefit. That's thoughtless and disrespectful - not the act of someone giving you a gift card, but you accepting and throwing it out.
I don't have space in my wallet for them, personally. By design. It improved my daily life more than I expected when I stopped using my wallet to carry more than the absolute essentials.
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Its just convenience. Its not worth it to lug them around and try to remember you have one.
I hope you can take a step back and understand how wild it is that carrying a plastic card in your pocket for 2 minutes while you exit your building and hand it to pretty much anyone is too "inconvenient" and you'd rather throw away the $$.
"Lug them around" they're not lead bricks. Put them in your wallet. When you pay at a restaurant or coffee shop, they're right there next to your cash or credit card, ready to be used.
Throwing out literal money is just absurd elitism and waste.
My wallet has spots for a total of 5 cards. Between ID, bank card, credit, medical and building I literally dont have space for it. (Im not buying a new wallet to lug around gift cards). But even historically when I had a bigger wallet that could carry more card I would never remember the off chance I went to one of these stores that I had a card. I go to starbucks maybe once a year (its just not my coffee place).
Its not wasted, Starbucks still gets the money, I just don't get anything in return.
Gift cards are just thoughtless and pointless in my personal opinion. Give people money.
If you really think gift cards are pointless, stop accepting them. Tell people it's a personal policy. They will respect that.
I don't know how you figure it isn't wasted money. Not only did you not receive the good or service that they spent their hard-earned money on - which is fine, you don't have to use it for yourself - you didn't even pass on the gift card and receive some smaller benefit. That's thoughtless and disrespectful - not the act of someone giving you a gift card, but you accepting and throwing it out.
That counts as "wasted" to me.
I don't have space in my wallet for them, personally. By design. It improved my daily life more than I expected when I stopped using my wallet to carry more than the absolute essentials.