# Cub Food. You are fuckers plain and simple
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [October 30, 2022, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999 "2022-10-30T01:20:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/1 "2022-10-30T01:20:43Z")
My son moved to the midwest and so we wanted to buy Cub gift cards for him. Tried it once for a $100 card and they charged me then I found out like 15 minutes later that their security contractors said my transaction was unsafe and I couldn’t get the card. Oh and we’ll refund your money whenever we get around to it. So I call Cub and they cannot tell me why I’m a security risk or why it was denied. No, you see to protect my privacy the security contractor does not tell Cub why they rejected it. Ok then, give me the contact information for your security contractor. But they can’t do that as their security contractor must remain anonymous. So there is no way whatsoever to find out why they rejected the card I paid for OR how to fix the situation. So today I decided to get the Egiftcard. Maybe, just maybe they saw I was ordering the card to a shipping address with no Cubs around so there shouldn’t be any problem doing an Egiftcard right?
Ordered. Charged. Rejected.
How the fuck an I supposed to get this fucking gift card so my son can get help with his grocery bills. No one fucking knows and no one fucking cares. They are just fuckers.
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### Author:  [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/2 "2022-10-30T01:25:16Z")
Did you use the same card that had already been rejected?
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/3 "2022-10-30T01:38:09Z")
I didn’t know Cub still existed. I shopped at one long ago, but it long since disappeared from my neck of the woods. [From what I found online](https://www.scrapehero.com/location-reports/Cub%20Foods-USA/), there appear to be 107 of them left, almost all in Minnesota.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/4 "2022-10-30T01:41:02Z")
Did you do a chargeback on your credit card?
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/5 "2022-10-30T01:42:43Z")
Instead of buying a retailer-specific gift card, why not instead buy a prepaid Visa or Mastercard card? Or send him a debit card tied to a bank account that you can fund as necessary.
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### Author:  [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/6 "2022-10-30T01:55:09Z")
Another option would be to buy a gift card for some other store that he shops at, so that he can use **that** money to buy food.
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### Author:  [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/7 "2022-10-30T02:01:03Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#):
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> So today I decided to get the Egiftcard.
Some people are slow learners.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/8 "2022-10-30T03:49:57Z")
There were nine Cub Foods in Colorado when I lived in Denver. They pulled out of the state in 2003.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/9 "2022-10-30T04:03:54Z")
I expected a rant about Malcontent Salmon.
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/10 "2022-10-30T04:12:06Z")
When I help out my son financially, I just do direct e-transfers. The money appears in his account almost instantly, along with a confirmation email to me.
I do the transfers via Interac, which apparently is a Canadian network, but surely the banks down there must have facilities for e-transfers that would obviate the need for gift cards. If necessary, ask your bank. Getting cash would also give him the most flexibility on where to spend it.
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### Author:  [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/11 "2022-10-30T07:04:36Z")
> [@wolfpup](#):
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> I do the transfers via Interac, which apparently is a Canadian network, but surely the banks down there must have facilities for e-transfers that would obviate the need for gift cards.
Down here it’s Zelle.
I use that when my wife or mom need money.
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/12 "2022-10-30T10:49:03Z")
Nope. First time was a credit card, Second was a debit card just in case that was the problem. Like I said, I have no clue why it got rejected.
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/13 "2022-10-30T10:49:37Z")
They returned the funds after a week.
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2022, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cub-food-you-are-fuckers-plain-and-simple/973999/14 "2022-10-30T10:51:14Z")
Because he’s an idiot and we want to get him a card that he can only use in the grocery store and not buy some useless shit off the internet then he complains he’s broke and has no food.
> [@Bootb](#):
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> Another option would be to buy a gift card for some other store that he shops at, so that he can use **that** money to buy food.
We do. We get him a gas card and a Costco card but see above.
> [@wolfpup](#):
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> When I help out my son financially, I just do direct e-transfers. The money appears in his account almost instantly, along with a confirmation email to me.
See above.