Walmart will take your unwanted holiday gift cards

Walmart is making a play for your gift cards, testing a program that lets you exchange cards from more than 200 other stores for a Walmart card. The Walmart card, notably, will be worth a fraction of the value of the original: 95 percent for Amazon, 90 percent for Staples, and down to 70 percent for other stores. The cards will be worth a fraction of the value of the original. Every year Americans get huge numbers of gift cards and then proceed not to spend them, either forgetting about them or ...