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These 12 Framingham Businesses Get Cash When You Buy Gift Cards

A Framingham Economic Development and Industrial Corporation (EDIC) program is providing matching funds to local businesses through May 16.

Kugel's Deli, 855 Worcester Road, is one of 12 businesses in Framingham that are part of a matching gift card program.
Kugel's Deli, 855 Worcester Road, is one of 12 businesses in Framingham that are part of a matching gift card program. (Neal McNamara/Patch)

FRAMINGHAM, MA — The Framingham Economic Development and Industrial Corporation (EDIC) this May is providing a cash boost to local businesses when customers buy gift cards.

Through the program, the EDIC will match each gift card purchase made at a participating business through May 16. Twelve Framingham restaurants and retailers are participating in the program:

The EDIC gift card match program is an effort to help local businesses recover after a year under the pandemic. Each participating business will get up to $250 in matching funds total. The program was only open to Framingham businesses with $2 million or less in annual sales.

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