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If you are looking for one-stop shopping for gift cards this year, you may not have to look much further than your local CVS store. You can get gift cards at CVS for all kinds of other places besides CVS itself. Just look for the gift card rack. You will often find it pretty close to the cash registers, usually on an aisle's end cap, but if you don't see it when you first walk in the store, be sure to take a stroll. My local CVS has it tucked in one of the back rows, where I'm sure it spends most of its time during the non-holiday periods.

So you know what's available before you head out to shop, here's a rundown of what you can expect to find on the CVS Gift Card rack, and what you need to know about some of those cards.

When it comes to buying gift cards at CVS, you have tons of options. When I went there to make my list of what's available, I was actually a bit surprised at just how many different ones they had. So I'll group these lists into types, so you can get a broad overview. Let's start off with the large department store type cards.

Department Store Gift Cards

1. Macy's
2. Lord & Taylor
3. Bloomingdale's
4. TJ Maxx
5. Marshalls
6. Lowes
7. Sears
8. Old Navy
9. Best Buy
10. Land's End
11. LL Bean

Then there are the specialty retailers, like Nike, The Body Shop, Gamestop, Bass Pro Shops, Borders and Barnes & Nobles. Yes, they do have gift cards for both bookstore chains, as well as Amazon gift cards. There are also gift cards for the movie theater chain, AMC and Apple's popular music download service, iTunes. If your recipients usually buy their movie tickets online, get the Fandango gift card.

Oh, and of course, you can buy CVS giftcards too.

Restaurant Gift Cards at CVS
For Dining, all of the options are for chain restaurants. Some of these are national, but some may be regional. For example, I live in New England and I'm pretty sure the Ninety Nine is a local chain not found outside this area.

1. IHOP
2. Burger King
3. Applebee's
4. Outback
5. Cracker Barrel
6. Red Lobster
7. Olive Garden
8. Longhorn's
9. PF Chang's
10. Denny's
11. Ninety Nine

In addition to these, I also saw a gift card pack for "Dinner and a Movie" which held two gift cards, one for Applebee's and one for AMC theaters.

Online Gaming Gift Cards
If there's a gamer on your Christmas list, you have a variety of options here too. For example, you can get gift cards for both the Playstation Network and XBox Live. For XBox Live, you can either buy a Gold membership (three months) or XBOX Live Points (for DLC, etc.)

What really surprised me is that there are also gift cards at CVS for Club Penguin and Farmville!

Gift Card Packs
If you are planning on giving the same type of gift card to several people, you will want to look at the handy gift cards packs. These are great for giving out at work or school, etc. You can get a 3-pack of $10 Starbucks gift cards for $30.

Other gift card packs:

Subway (3-pack of $10 cards)
Applebee's (3-pack of $15 cards)
Chili's (3-pack of $10 cards)

Visa & American Express
And finally, if you still can't find a specific gift card that your recipient would like, you can always opt to purchase either Visa or American Express gift cards. These can be used almost anywhere and are loadable for values between $25 and $500.

Just keep in mind that unlike the gift cards for specific stores and restaurants, the American Express and Visa gift cards have activation fees. For AMEX, the fee was $5.95 to purchase. For Visa, check the racks carefully. For some reason, the Visa cards had a range of activation prices between $3.95 and $5.95.