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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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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