Mall Gift Cards-which stores exclude them from use

[Ciel]

Having seen a very valid concern by another Smart Canuck about finding out that there are stores that won't take a mall gift card for purchases, I thought in the spirit of saving the shoppers some time to list gift card exclusions by mall. Thus you have advance notice that other tender will be needed at those stores.
Should make this a wiki thread.


Alberta



British Columbia
CF Pacific Centre-check store directory for non-participating stores/service.
GC cannot be used at Four Seasons hotel, Holts Cafe, Meinhardt, New York Fries, Pacific Centre Lottery Centre, Qoola, Rockport, Rudsak, Stitch Int'l, TD Canada Trust, Tim Horton's, Vina, Wind Mobile
https://www.cfshops.com/pacific-centre/stores.html

Oakridge Centre-Ivanhoe Cambridge

What are the non-participating stores at Oakridge?

Oakridge Lottery Ticket Center
Cupcakes
Dynamic Shine
Koodo
Little Tea House
Make It Fit Alterations
New York Fries
Oakridge Optometry Clinic
Oakridge Post Office
Oakwest Insurance
Opa! Of Greece
Shaw
Shi Art
Silkway Travel and Cruise
Starbucks
Subway
Teriyaki Express
Tim Hortons


Valetor

https://www.oakridgecentre.com/info/gift-card/


Manitoba


New Brunswick


Newfoundland & Labrador


Nova Scotia


Ontario
Burlington Mall-Riocan

The following stores/services are not able to accept mall gift cards:
Stores: Bell World, Best Stitches, Beverley Hills Windows, Burlington Lotto & Dollarama
Services: Cogeco, GoodLife Fitness & Office Galleria
Food Court: Freshly Squeezed & Jasmine Rice

CF Shop! card-Lime Ridge Mall

Using the CF SHOP! card is easy and convenient. The CF SHOP! card is currently redeemable at more than 95% of Cadillac Fairview retailers. As participation is voluntary, and may vary from centre to centre, it is a good idea to check cfshops.com for a complete list of stores.

https://www.cfshops.com/home/cf-shop...tml#wheretouse

CF Sherway Gardens-CF Shop!
have to refer to store directory to see where the gift card symbol is not shown.
Noticed McDonalds,Scotiabank and Well.ca don't have the card symbol.
https://www.cfshops.com/sherway-gardens/stores.html

Mapleview Centre (Burlington)-IvanhoeCambridge

What are the non-participating stores at Mapleview?

Tim Horton’s
Extreme Pita
Shoe Medic
Rogers


Continental Currency Exchange

https://www.mapleviewcentre.com/info/gift-card/

Oakville Place-Riocan

**Non participating locations include: Bell World, Cogeco, BMO Bank of Montreal, Tim Hortons and Mac's Sushi.

http://oakvilleplace.com/GiftCards.aspx

Square One-(Mississauga) Oxford

Stores that do not accept Gift Cards

• Amaya Indian Cuisine
• Below The Belt
• Big Smoke Burger
• Booster Juice
• Bowring (Coming Soon)
• Calendar Club
• Chapters
• Chatime (Coming Soon)
• Crabtree & Evelyn (Holiday 2016)
• Cultures

http://shopsquareone.com/services/gift-cards

Toronto Premium Outlets (Simons Gift Card-the property company is not a dept store by the same name)
No specific stores mentioned but card cannot be used at ATMs or for gambling and a couple of other things.
https://www.simon.com/giftcard/faq.a...tcard=1#gen_07

Yorkdale Mall-(Toronto) Oxford Gift Card Plus

The following retailers do not accept the Yorkdale Gift Card:

• Big Smoke Burger
• Jamba Juice
• Su & Shi
• Thai Express
• Walk & Wear Fine Shoe Repair
• Wind Mobile

http://yorkdale.com/guest-services/gift-cards/
Prince Edward Island


Quebec


Saskatchewan


Territories: Yukon, NWT, Nunavut

[SassyAshley]

Another thing to consider which I just recently learned is some stores in our Mall will accept the Mall Gift Card but instead of removing what you spent from the gift card they give you your "change" on their own Gift Card.

Example you have $100 Mall Gift Card, you purchase a $15 item instead of removing the $15 from your Mall Gift Card leaving you with $85 to spent in the Mall they give you their Store Gift Card for $85 forcing you to spend the remaining amount in their store.

[Midnightly]

another thing i've learned with mall gift cards is they can charge you an "inactive" fee after a set amount of months so the cards can essentially expire(the fee will just slowly eat up the card balance until there is nothing left)..and some places you can't transfer the balance to a new card to prevent getting hit with the inactive fee