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Trading Stamps and Supermarkets
Posted by mikew on 10/13/2005, 2:51 pm
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I am a graduate student working on a thesis about the trading stamp phenonenon of the 1950s and 60s. Much of its growth originated in the explosion of super markets in the same period, and its decline mirrored the rise of discount outfits and food warehouse stores. I was wondering if anyone here has information regarding trading stamps and grocery stores, how stores dealt with them, why they used (or didn't use) them, which ones used "in house" brands, rather than S&H, etc. One note: Safeway was notoriously anti-stamp, to the point that it funded a major nation-wide anti-stamp campaign in state legislatures in 1955-1960 to try to ban them completely (it failed, but 1965 was the high water mark for the stamps anyway). Thanks!
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