Blackhawk Network (BHN) will make DoorDash gift cards available to consumers and businesses via more channels in the United States and Canada.
The branded payment solutions network and the local commerce platform announced their new partnership in a Wednesday (Oct. 30) press release.
With this collaboration, DoorDash gift cards and eGift options are now available on Giftcards.com and other stores and retailers, according to the release.
In addition, DoorDash is using BHN’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) B2B gift card program to offer gift cards in bulk to businesses, per the release.
“Our new partnership with DoorDash will make both physical and digital DoorDash gift cards more accessible during peak shopping season while also extending its B2B gift card program applications,” Brett Narlinger, head of global commerce at BHN, said in the release.
The B2B gift card program will help DoorDash tap into businesses’ growing use of gift cards for customer incentives, employee rewards, fundraisers and other ways to drive brand engagement, according to the release.
“As businesses have caught on to the overwhelming popularity of gift cards, they are finding new, creative channels to apply and disseminate gift card rewards, gifts and more,” Oliver Davies, head of consumer financials at DoorDash, said in the release. “The B2B gift card market offers a tremendous growth opportunity for DoorDash, and BHN is helping our brand to reach new audiences and tap those opportunities.”
This partnership follows some other moves BHN has made to expand its offerings.
In February, the company introduced a digital “code-to-catalog” called Select Codes that lets businesses distribute codes to customers, who can then swap that code for their choice of electronic gift or prepaid cards. The company said at the time that this offering provides a new option for incentives buyers.
Also in February, BHN partnered with Roblox to offer digital gift cards on the digital gaming platform’s gift card site in the local currencies of Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Brazil. Roblox digital gift cards let users purchase Robux, the platform’s virtual currency, to acquire digital items and accessories as well as to pay for Roblox’s monthly subscription service, Roblox Premium.
Job cuts in government, technology and retail led the way as U.S. employers announced the largest number of cuts in one month since May 2020.
Among the 275,240 job cuts announced in March, 216,215 were in government, 15,055 were in technology and 11,709 were in retail, Challenger, Gray & Christmas said in a report released Thursday (April 3).
“Job cut announcements were dominated last month by Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to eliminate positions in the federal government,” Andrew Challenger, senior vice president and workplace expert for Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said in the report. “It would have otherwise been a fairly quiet month for layoffs.”
The total number of job cuts made in March was more than three times the 90,309 cuts announced in March 2024, according to the report.
By sector, compared to March 2024, government job cuts were almost six times higher, technology cuts were about 6% higher and retail cuts were nearly twice as high, per the report.
All the government job cuts made in March occurred in the federal government, the report said.
The top reason employers gave for cutting jobs in March was “DOGE impact,” which was cited for 216,670 of the month’s cuts, according to the report.
Other common reasons included store, unit or department closing, to which 17,666 job cuts were attributed, and market/economic conditions, which accounted for 11,594 cuts, per the report.
Challenger, Gray & Christmas also said in the report that employers are planning to hire fewer workers than they were a year ago. Companies’ hiring plans dropped by about 37%, from 21,102 in March 2024 to 13,198 in March 2025, according to the report.
The specter of uncertain job security may accelerate a spending pullback that is already in motion, PYMNTS reported Wednesday (April 2). Consumer confidence that was already shaken may have been further impacted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest snapshot of the labor market released Tuesday (April 1), which found that the labor market slowed in February, with a decline in job openings over the past year.
The Conference Board reported March 25 that consumer confidence slipped for the fourth straight month in March, due in part to a plunge in consumers’ short-term outlook for income, business and labor market conditions.
