Oct. 30—It's been 40 some years, but we're again collecting trading stamps and it brings back fond memories of Gold Bond and S&H Green stamps. Everyone collected the sheets of stamps, which they got ...

FARGO — If you were to utter the following words to anyone under the age of 40, they might give you a quizzical look: “I walked away with a ton of green stamps from Red Owl today.” Those Millennials ...

FARGO — If you were to utter the following words to anyone under the age of 40, they might give you a quizzical look: “I walked away with a ton of green stamps from Red Owl today.” Those Millennials ...

It was bound to come. Trading stamps have become a way of life for so many U.S. housewives that the stamp people claim that 90% of American homes are saving up for “free” gifts. It is a rare grocer ...

IN their race for the consumer’s dollar, U.S. retailers have turned the old trading-stamp gimmick into the hottest sales idea of the postwar decade. By playing on the housewife’s weakness for ...

These little booklets and stamps will be familiar to older folks. Trading stamps were once issued by grocers, retailers and gas stations to their customers with every purchase made. Consumers pasted ...

When I was a kid, many stores handed out S&H Green Stamps to customers. There were no credit card rewards points in those days. When you got home you put your stamps in your S&H book and when it was ...

The trading-stamp explosion began in the 1950s. By the end of the decade, competition was fierce. Hardly anything could be bought without some form of trading stamps being thrown into the package. In ...

Trading stamps and customer games of chance have been two of the more important types of nonprice promotion in the supermarket industry. The employment of these two promotional tools has declined from ...