{"id":2519,"date":"2018-09-24T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T18:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wh-smith-halts-debenhams-gift-card-sales\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T18:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T18:22:26","slug":"wh-smith-halts-debenhams-gift-card-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wh-smith-halts-debenhams-gift-card-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"WH Smith halts Debenhams gift card sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"debenhams\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/589D\/production\/_103558622_gettyimages-1031363044.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Dan Kitwood<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">WH Smith has stopped selling gift cards for department store chain Debenhams.<\/p>\n<p>There has been much speculation over Debenhams&#8217; financial health, and earlier this month it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45474588\" class=\"story-body__link\">rushed out a statement to try to reassure investors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, Debenhams has issued three profit warnings and lost more than two-thirds of its share price.<\/p>\n<p>No one from WH Smith was immediately available to explain the reasons for the move. Debenhams said it was aware of WH Smith&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are aware that WH Smith has temporarily ceased selling Debenhams Gift Cards,&#8221; a spokesperson from Debenhams confirmed. &#8220;We are in dialogue with WH Smith regarding this decision.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Debenhams runs 182 stores in the UK, Republic of Ireland and in Denmark, where it operates under the Magasin du Nord name. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-45629427\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Dan Kitwood WH Smith has stopped selling gift cards for department store chain Debenhams. There has been much speculation over Debenhams&#8217; financial health, and earlier this month it rushed out a statement to try to reassure investors. So far this year, Debenhams has issued three profit warnings and lost more than two-thirds of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}