Tired of lugging around a wallet bursting with partially redeemed gift cards? Sick of the clerk behind the counter insisting that you spend the remaining $2.86 at the store -- and then having to cough up the balance for something actually worth buying?
Thanks to a new law (SB 250), signed in October, that went into effect Jan. 1, retailers are now required to give you cash for the balance on any gift card worth less than $10. Before that, any unspent amount on those rectangular pieces of plastic, no matter how paltry, belonged to the stores until it was spent.
