If you steal those credit cards from the grocery stores?

If you steal those credit-cards and the gift cards from the grocery stores, like the Visa ones that are worth $100, or $50 for you to spend at Nordstroms, would they work if you just took them? Or do they have to go through the little scanner thing? Or, when you buy them, do you have to fill something out?

Answer:
Think for a second. Work it out in your head. If you could just take them and use them, would they be sitting out there within easy reach?
They have to be activated before you can use them - they are activated at check-out after you pay for them. I've never had to fill anything out - just purchase it.
No, they don't work if you steal them. They have to be scanned in to be activated.
They have to be activated upon checkout - they're worthless otherwise.
A. They have to be activated. Without that they're worth absolutely nothing.

B. Stealing is f*cked up and you shouldn't do that. This is why everything is so damned expensive anymore.
They aren't any good until the cashier activates them, it says that on the gift cards.
No. The card has to be scanned through the register with an amount attached to it before the card becomes activated. For your sake I hope you keep your nose clean. Crime does not pay. DO NOT PASS GO - DO NOT COLLECT 200 DOLLARS - GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL!
the cards are worthless. that is messed up. stealing is so lame. get a job and buy your stuff like the rest of us do, instead of trying to get over on society.
Well, I hope you never go through with your plan but you actually have to provide the money to put in the card. Lets say I have $50 dollars cash and I want to purchase a gift card. I will give the $50 to the cashier and she in turn swipes the gift card and installs the $50 in the card. You can steal all the cards in the stores but they won't have any value "money" in them until you put some value into it.
They must be activated by the cashier before you can use them, or else they will not work. Oh, and stealing is wrong ;-) (seriously!)
The cards have to be loaded at the register.
They have to be activated. Spend more time thinking ofways to make money not steal it and you will go a lot further than jail.

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