You should never have more than $100 in gift cards to any local non-chain business. In this day and age, they fail all the time. My local running store seemed like they were doing great. Great location, happy employees, good product selection. Then one day I came in and noticed they had like half the inventory they'd had just a few weeks ago. 6 months later they were closed, no going out of business sale or notifications, nothing. It was right after Christmas too, I'd come in a couple weeks before and nothing seemed amiss other than the reduced inventory. They were always really nice to me when I came in, and no wonder, they were desperate for sales.