Poll of the Day > Did you ever collect trading stamps? (Green Stamps/Blue Chip Stamps/etc)

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captpackrat
08/05/20 4:07:53 PM
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Did you ever collect trading stamps?









Up until around the early 1990s many grocery stores, gas stations and other shops would give out trading stamps with each purchase, typically one stamp for every 10 purchased, though some also offered "super" stamps worth 10 regular stamps for each $1 purchased. You would them paste them into a book and when you had enough books of stamps, you could exchange them for merchandise from a mail order catalog. A typical book held about 1200 stamps, which represented $120 worth of purchases. There were several different companies that offered stamps such as S&H Green Stamps and Blue Chip Stamps. Some chains had their own stamps, such as Big Bear's Buckeye Stamps.

I don't think anyone gives out stamps anymore, I think everyone has switched to loyalty cards.




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captpackrat
08/05/20 4:16:10 PM
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I remember sticking Blue Chip stamps into books for my grandmother. She had a bunch of books, but I don't remember whether she ever cashed any of them in. From what I've seen of the catalogs, it required a hell of a lot of books to get anything really good, like 18 books for a vacuum cleaner. One book held 1200 stamps, which represented $120 worth of purchases, so you had to spend over $2100 to get that stupid vacuum.

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