Need Help: Retail Question

Manster

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Does anybody know any Zellers that sell instant lottery scratch tickets such as cash for life, etc. I have a HBC gift card and would like to use it on them, but the stores I go to don't sell lottery tickets. Thanks in advance.
 
I did a google search and came up with this:

Lottery Kiosk Zellers
499 Mohawk E Hamilton ON (905) 574-2638

You may want to go to the Zellars home page and look up their main contact number to enquire directly.
 
I was talking to someone about two years ago and he'd mentioned that people actually trade gift cards. That way if you get one for a store you don't always shop at, then you can trade it for one where you do. Sorry, he didn't mentioned a website.
 
There is one in the Zellers upper level at Woodbine Centre, but as mentioned before, probably privately run.

Maybe they'll take it, and use it to pay part of their rent.:D
 
Zeller's in Centre Mall in Hamilton has a kiosk, but again I don't know if it's owned by Zellers.
 
If it's a lotto booth, it will be owned and operated by the OLGC. The OLGC will rent space from HBC and adopt the respective store operations policies and procedures much like H&R Block will do during tax season. The lotto booths will, with exception to thier physcal location, be a totally separate entity from that of the HBC store in which they are set up. That being said, it is highly unlikely that you would be able to use a HBC gift card for scratch tickets or any other form of lottery as payment.
 
This may be overly complicated but buy something and take it back and use the refund to buy lottery tickets.
 
Ben Hogan said:
This may be overly complicated but buy something and take it back and use the refund to buy lottery tickets.

Refunds take place in the same method the original purchase is made. So if you bought it via a gift card, then it'll be returned onto a new gift card. If you conviently "lose" your original reciept, then you won't be able to return the item. If it is a Zellers exclusive item, then you may be able to convience them to take it back, but the last sale value will go onto a gift card.

Your best bet, try to sell it, albeit at a discount.
 
Most Zellers stores I know of have grocery sections these days, so there must be something you enjoy to spend the gift card on. :confused: