Bought 2 Apple Gift card at safeway but the code is invalid

I called Safeway gift card department today as they were closed last night after the cashier from Safeway was not able to help me and instead gave me the Safeway Corp GC dept number to report this problem since i suspect the whole batch of GC at Safeway might of have issues i don't want anyone else fall as victim. The way apple design inside and outside envelope as gift card is giving scammer opportunity to scam people. When you pay, Safeway will scan outside, there is no way to know content inside . And people usually buy GC for gifts so 80% of time the purchaser (victim) would never know receivers of the GC is not able to use GC. Unless for self use, i would tell people i know "do not buy Apple Gift card of this design where they can not confirm Serial Number outside env is the same is the actual GC Serial Number inside " as there is chance they will have to go through painful process like me wasting my time on the phone and go to the store for help. Gas is expensive and my time is expensive. It's such an inconvenience. Safeway now have a ticket for me and investigating the matter, i still have not gotten my money back at this point!! Such a bad experience with Apple Gift Card.

I am so mad, just got back from Safeway, like i predicted, they can't do anything about it. They asked me to call Safeway Corporate. I will never buy Apple gift card again this is very bad experience. There is no way you can tell there is something wrong with the gift card until you opened the seal try to load and struggle getting the issue fix. What a joke! I will submit a dispute with my credit card and tell everyone don't buy gift card as gift. Imagine you give this as a gift, there is no way you will know the receiver actually will get money !!!!! This is basically a scam especially if you are giving the gift card out.