Facebook users can now say “charge it,” with a new physical gift card the social network is rolling out, which people can use to make purchases in brick-and-mortar retail stores.Facebook’s mockup of its physical gift card.
The product, called the “Facebook Card,” is a plastic, reusable card that users can give their friends to redeem at four different partner companies: Jamba Juice, Olive Garden, Sephora, and Target. Facebook describes the product as “a new type of gift card,” in a blog post announcing its launch.
Here’s how the Facebook Card is designed to work: A person can select a gift for a friend on the site’s Gift Cards & Digital category to be redeemed at one of the affiliated stores. After the user chooses the amount of the gift, the friend is notified and receives the card in the mail a few days later. When the card arrives, the friend can use it at the retailer that was chosen for the gift amount.
If the chosen retailer were Target, for example, the person doing the giving can choose between, say, a US$10, $50, or even $100 value for the card. Once the recipient receives it in the mail, it can be used at any local Target store, Facebook said, although it will not work at Target.com or Target Mobile. Company officials were not immediately available to comment on whether the card would work with websites of the other stores involved in the program.One card, several accounts
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