Counterfeit credit cards were seized by federal law enforcement officials from the site Fakeplastic.net in Charlotte. (Photo: U.S. Attorney’s Office)

The end of the road for the 56 million credit card numbers stolen a month ago from Home Depot turns out, often as not, to be a cheap meal at McDonald’s or a gallon of milk at Walmart.

“We’re generally not seeing $1,000 transactions where they’re buying wide-screen TVs,” said Rob Miller, chief operations officer with San Diego-based Mission Feder