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Re: Trading Stamps and Supermarkets
Posted by TW-Upstate NY on 10/14/2005, 7:26 pm, in reply to "Re: Trading Stamps and Supermarkets"
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In NE Pa., Acme Markets offered S+H Green Stamps until the early '70's when they rebranded their stores with the Super Saver banner and dropped stamps. A few years later, the Giant chain in that area began offering S+H Green Stamps. A few years prior to that, that same Giant chain offered Top Value Stamps and dropped those and went "stampless" until they picked up S+H. Around '78 or so, A+P got in on the act with Gold Bond Stamps but that lasted for a VERY short period of time-I'd say less than a year or so. In Upstate NY, Central Markets (operated by Golub Corp.), had S+H Green Stamps until about '73 or so when they rebranded their stores Price Chopper and dropped them. Grand Union also offered something called Triple-S Blue Stamps up until at least the early '70's. Well before that, A+P gave something called Plaid Stamps but by the time of my earliest recollections of those stores in probably the late '60's, they had discontinued them. Victory Markets of Norwich, NY I think gave S+H Stamps during the same period but don't quote me on that one. Another interesting aspect of the trading stamp era was weekly "Double Stamp" days and it was just what it says-you got twice the stamps if you shopped that day. This was usually mid-week-I seem to remember it as Wednesday for some reason. I don't know why, but I only remember Double Stamp days in Upstate NY and not in NE Pa. They may have had them there but I really don't know for sure. Stamps also drove the stores ads as well-there would be coupons in their ads if you bought a particular product, you would get extra stamps. Sometimes you'd need to spend a minimum dollar amount; other times it was just purchase the item. Eventually, people realized stamps actually cost them money in the form of higher prices and that was pretty much the end of it on a mass scale. I'm speculating that the hyper-inflation of the early '70's may have had something to do with it.
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