{"id":132,"date":"2013-08-28T18:06:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T18:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardcash.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2018-04-10T18:39:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T18:39:58","slug":"staples-laps-the-field-as-most-popular-back-to-school-gift-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cardcash.com\/blog\/staples-laps-the-field-as-most-popular-back-to-school-gift-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Staples Laps The Field As Most Popular Back To School Gift Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

In CardCash.com\u2019s latest social media giveaway we asked participants what their favorite back-to-school gift card is, and the overwhelming majority answered that Staples gift cards<\/a> gets them the furthest during the back-to-school crunch.<\/p>\n

51% of respondents said their preferred gift card was a Staples gift card. Target gift cards<\/a> were the second most popular with 19% of respondents enjoying Target gift cards during the back-to-school rush, followed by Walmart gift cards<\/a> at 6% and Office Max gift cards<\/a> at 3% with the remaining 21% of responses running the gamut of the many gift cards on the market.<\/p>\n

The numbers are in line with sales at CardCash.com<\/a>, where sales of discounted Staples gift cards<\/a> have spiked in August. The month over month sales of Staples discount gift cards has more than doubles in August as parents across the country prepare their children for school.<\/p>\n

The amount families are spending on back-to-school shopping is actually expected to decrease this year. According to the National Retail Federation\u2019s 2013 Back-to-School Survey<\/a> conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, families with school-age children will spend an average $634.78 on apparel, shoes, supplies, and electronics, down from $688.62 last year. Total spending on back-to-school is expected to reach $26.7 billion.<\/p>\n

Even though the costs are down, it is still a significant sum for many Americans still recovering from the economic downturn. Many Americans continue to enjoy saving son their everyday purchases from CardCash.com, using discount gift cards<\/a> at Staples, Target, Best Buy and other top retailers across the country.<\/p>\n

The winner of the $50 Staples gift card and the winners of the $10 Boston Market gift cards have been notified via email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In CardCash.com\u2019s latest social media giveaway we asked participants what their favorite back-to-school gift card is, and the overwhelming majority answered that Staples gift cards gets them the furthest during the back-to-school crunch. 51% of respondents said their preferred gift card was a Staples gift card. Target gift cards were the second most popular with … <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,15,13],"tags":[58,62,125],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardcash-com","category-contest","category-facebook-social-media","category-social-media","tag-discount-gift-cards-giveaway","tag-discounted-gift-cards","tag-staples-discount-gift-card"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardcash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardcash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardcash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardcash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardcash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardcash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3055,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardcash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/3055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardcash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cardcash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardcash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cardcash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}