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Do You Remember S&H Green Stamps?

We are all familiar with customer loyalty programs. Reasor’s Foods, Walgreens Drug Stores, Ace Hardware, and other retailers offer Rewards cards or apps that offer discounted prices, on their products, or in the case of Reasor’s Foods, a discount on QuikTrip gasoline. For many years, Warehouse Market had Magic Coins. One coin was handed out for every five dollars spent and was worth ten cents toward a specifically advertised product.


Tradings stamps were another way to entice customers to stay loyal to a merchant, beginning over a century ago and lasting until the 1980s. Although there were several competitors such as Gold Bond Stamps, Gunn Brothers Stamps, and others, the most successful, prolific, and enduring trading stamps were S&H Green Stamps.

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Mamapolo2016 · F Best Comment
I surely do. Sitting around the kitchen table, pasting the stamps into the paper book, a family activity.

In retrospect, I think it was low-key a way to keep dreams alive. “Only 5 million more stamps and I can get a bike!”
HumanEarth · F
Right and yet so true

Yes ! I remember my father giving me books and a box of loose stamps as a project, because I enjoyed posted the stamps. I remember we had Blue Chip stamps, too.
I’d fill the books and return them.
IM5688 · 61-69, M
Seriously, when I was growing up our local A&P would give us Plaid Stamps. They were exactly like green stamps. You could save them up and exchange them for items at one of the plaid stamp showrooms. Look it up, you'll see I wasn't joking.
Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M
I remember S&H having an actual store. They took full booklets of stamps and accepted cash.

My mother got a ceiling fan there in 1972 or 73.
TheShanachie · 61-69, M
I remember them yes! I think mostly my mom used those at an A & P grocery store.
HumanEarth · F
I remember A & P and Red Owl Grocery stores
TheShanachie · 61-69, M
@HumanEarth I was down South no Red Owl but Piggly Wiggly, IGA, Kroger, Red Foods, a local mini chain named Bells, Winn Dixie, Bi Lo.
Barefooter25 · 46-50, M
O remember seeing those as a kid when my mom went grocery shopping at Winn Dixie.
There were also grocery store encyclopedias. I know nothing about subjects beginning with M because we missed that week.

Jelly glasses with cartoon characters.
@bowman81 There were also those glasses that came in - Tide? - frosted with the gold stencils of wheat…
bowman81 · M
@Mamapolo2016 Oh, Hell NO!!!! That would taste just awful. Wash my mouth out with soap.....I'll stop cussing, Mom!
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FORMERLYbatovn · 61-69, M
Definitely remember them. Still have some stuff I bought with them. Lol
HumanEarth · F
I still have a few thousand sealed in bag around here to
IM5688 · 61-69, M
We had S&H green stamps and also Plaid stamps.
I do. I also remember Blue Chip Stamps.
IM5688 · 61-69, M
@BizSuitStacy we actually had three. They were, S&H Green Stamps, (which were the most popular), we had Plaid Stamps, and we had Triple S Blue Stamps.
bowman81 · M
Sure, and there were red stamps too. I used to help my Mom paste the damn things in those little books. My first camping gear for Boy Scouts came from Green and Red Stamps.
We're dinosaurs!
Musicman · 61-69, MVIP
Yes I do! And walking through the store seeing all the things I would like to have had. 🙂
Bang5luts · M
Not really, weren't those food stamps? Or a type of food stamps?
bowman81 · M
@Bang5luts No. They were more like cash back awards today. You purchased stuff from participating stores and they issued stamps. You "earned" so many for every dollar you spent. Once you collected enough of them you could go to an outlet or mail order from a catalog and redeem them on merchandise.
Bang5luts · M
@bowman81 ok. Sort of like camel bucks or Marlboro miles? I mean before those were ever a thing
TheShanachie · 61-69, M

 
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