Be Careful buying Gift Cards

Buyer Beware.  If you plan on buying gift cards for the holidays, be careful.  Some stores are going out of business and won’t be honoring those cards. Below is a partial list of stores that you need to be cautious about.

1. Circuit City (filed Chapter 11)
2. Ann Taylor- 117 stores nationwide closing
3. Lane Bryant
4. Fashion Bug
5. Catherine’s to close 150 stores nationwide
6. Eddie Bauer to close stores 27 stores and more after January
7. Cache will close all stores
8. Talbots closing down specialty stores
9. J. Jill closing all stores (owned by Talbots)
10. Pacific Sunwear (also owned by Talbots)
11. GAP closing 85 stores
12. Footlocker closing 140 stores more to close after January
13. Wickes Furniture closing down 
14. Levitz closing down remaining stores
15. Bombay closing remaining stores
16. Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January
17. Whitehall closing all stores
18. Piercing Pagoda closing all stores
19. Disney closing 98 stores and will close more after January.
20. Home Depot closing 15 stores, 1 in NJ ( New Brunswick )
21. Macys to close 9 stores after January
22. Linens and Things closing all stores
23. Movie Galley Closing all stores
24. Pep Boys Closing 33 stores
25. Sprint/Nextel closing 133 stores
26. JC Penney closing a number of stores after January
27. Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores.
28. Wilson Leather closing down all stores
29. Sharper Image closing down all stores
30. K B Toys closing 356 stores
31. Loews to close down some stores
32. Dillard’s to close some stores
33. Mervyns