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1 (Plaid trading stamps was a loyalty program of A&P supermarkets.).  2 Everybody Hates a Liar , episode 4 of the TV sitcom Everybody Hates Chris that originally aired October 23, 2006, centers in part around Chris' father running to redeem the trading stamps before the trading stamp company closes. 1 In Stamp Scamp , episode 20 of the TV cartoon The Yogi Bear Show that originally aired October 7, 1961, Chopper gives Yakky a trading stamp so his book will be completely filled, but the wind keeps blowing the stamp away from them. In fact, publicity-hungry trading stamp companies-always looking for a way to get a leg up over their many competitors-were willing to negotiate with collectors to provide just about anything equal to the cash value of the collected stamps. These days almost every retailer has some kind of loyalty program-frequent flyer miles, grocery store club cards, even low-tech cardboard punchcards at the local sandwich shop. But 100 years ago it all started …with trading stamps. S&H Green Stamps were most popular in the United States from the 1930s to 1970s. Customers received S&H stamps from cashiers at supermarkets, gas stations and other retail locations, collect them in books, and redeem them for merchandise from local Green Stamps stores or the S&H Idea Book catalog.  S&H Green Stamps. S&H Green Stamps were trading stamps popular in the United States from the 1930s until the late 1980s. They were distributed as part of a rewards program operated by the Sperry & Hutchinson company (S&H), founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson. S&H Green Stamps sign preserved on a grocery store building in Goleta, California. A repurposed S&H Green Stamps sign in 1973 (see 1973 oil crisis). Sperry & Hutchinson began offering stamps to U.S. retailers in 1896. For example, A&P had its own program called “Plaid Stamps.” If you lived in a town large enough to have more than one supermarket, you tried to make all your purchases at the store that gave out the kind of stamps you were collecting. Women would trade different kinds of stamps among themselves. Supermarkets, some of the 5&10 chains, gas stations and some shops gave out the stamps every time you made a purchase. They came in denominations of one, ten and fifty. We got most of our Green Stamps from the grocery store. A WORLD OF STAMPS. Green Stamps was the best known, but there were many other brands of trading stamps in the 1960s. If you shopped at Piggly Wiggly’s, for instance, you’d get Greenbax, at A&P you’d get Plaid Stamps, at Kroger you’d get Top Value Stamps, and so on. Stamps came in a rainbow of colors, too: Orange, Yellow, Red, Pink, Blue Chip, K&S Red, Triple-S Blue, Plaid, Gold Bond, Merchant Green, and World Green, to name a few. These days almost every retailer has some kind of loyalty program-frequent flyer miles, grocery store club cards, even low-tech cardboard punchcards at the local sandwich shop. But 100 years ago it all started …with trading stamps. In 2013, the S&H Green Stamps brand was purchased by entrepreneur Anthony Zolezzi. His vision for S&H includes a reboot that will continue the nostalgic feel of the original game while bringing S&H into the 21st century. S&H Green Stamps sign preserved on a grocery store building in Goleta, California. A repurposed S&H Green Stamps sign in 1973 (see 1973 oil crisis). Sperry & Hutchinson began offering stamps to U.S. retailers in 1896. Expert: M.Arch replied 5 years ago. HelloCustomer and thank you for your question. Unfortunately MacDonald Plaid has ceased operations entirely, so these stamps are no longer redeemable (and they only had a cash value of $.01 per ten stamps when they were redeemable. They only had more significant value when redeemed for catalog merchandise.).  S&H Green Stamps. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s many women, including my mother, collected S&H Green Stamps and other trading stamps. Supermarkets, some of the 5&10 chains, gas stations and some shops gave out the stamps every time you made a purchase. They came in denominations of one, ten and fifty. We got most of our Green Stamps from the grocery store. The stamps—issued in denominations of one, ten, and fifty points—were perforated with a gummed reverse, and as shoppers accumulated the stamps they moistened the reverse and mounted them in collectors books, which were provided free by S&H. S&H Green Stamps sign preserved on a grocery store building in Goleta, California. A repurposed S&H Green Stamps sign in 1973 (see 1973 oil crisis). Sperry & Hutchinson began offering stamps to U.S. retailers in 1896.
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