cross-posted from: https://lemmy.cafe/post/6017593

More to read on:
https://northeastnews.net/pages/remember-this-trading-stamps/

" Commonly called “trading stamps,” merchants across America offered savings stamps based on the amount of the customer’s purchase. The more one purchased, the more stamps were obtained for the cash transaction.

Stamps were pasted into savings books and when full, could be redeemed at a redemption center chock-full of name brand items, from household goods to appliances, home decor and toys. Depending on the merchant, the stamps offered could be Gold Bond, S&H Green Stamps, or Top Value, among others. "

I think, it work like royalty promotion, isn’t it ? Can someone enlightening me on this stuff.

Perhaps it is not like food/fuel/clothes stamps in the Soviet ?!

  • @jqubed
    2•6 months ago

    I don’t know if they still do it, but as recently as the ’00s Lowe’s Foods in North Carolina was offering S&H Green Points, no longer physical stamps but an electronic program tied to your phone number. I don’t think my parents ever really used it for much. I think now they give a discount on gasoline purchased at the stations many stores have in the parking lots.

    It was only years later that I learned they used to be S&H Green Stamps, but I never understood how the program worked.