How do you shop for someone you don't know all that well?

How do you shop for someone you don't know all that well?
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Also – I don’t drive and they live about 90 minutes from me in a rural setting. Most of the places they frequent we don’t have where I live (small, local places or chains we don’t have in my state) so I can’t buy say a gift card for their grocery store because you can only buy them in person.
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