{"id":359,"date":"2009-08-22T20:09:41","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T20:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=359"},"modified":"2010-04-06T20:17:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:17:02","slug":"starbucks-decides-to-play-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks Decides to Play Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Starbucks has not been abiding by the provisions of California&#8217;s gift card law in effect since January 2008; they haven&#8217;t been redeeming balances below $10 on gift cards for cash on request. However, they now claim that they are taking steps to train staff appropriately and add a redemption button to their cash registers to make the process easier.<\/p>\n<p>Just a subtle reminder, if you live in California, or your state has a law that requires retailers to redeem small gift card balances in cash, stand up for your rights! (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiachronicle.com\/articles\/view\/115459\">story<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Starbucks has not been abiding by the provisions of California&#8217;s gift card law in effect since January 2008; they haven&#8217;t been redeeming balances below $10 on gift cards for cash on request. However, they now claim that they are taking steps to train staff appropriately and add a redemption button to their cash registers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}