Wonder how many books of stamps one would need to get the latest smartphone, LOL.
A lot of white folks in the advertisements and videos! :O
The S+H stands for Sperry and Hutchinson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sperry_Beinecke
I knew some of the family.
We used to have a S&H Green Stamp redemption Center in Jacksonville, FL at Gateway Shopping Center...........
My mother borrowed my tongue to glue them onto the pages of the books, I can still taste it.
[Whatever happened to S&H Green Stamps? ]
The Bradys, being the first family to ever collect enough booklets to redeem, bankrupted the company with their unexpected purchase.
Yep, my mom kept those along with Raleigh cigarette coupons. My dad supplied a ton of those.
My mother saved Green Stamps and would redeem them once in a while, but I don’t remember what kind of stuff she got with them.
I remember in the 70s when our grocery store in upstate NY announced it was no longer giving out S&H green stamps. The store then announced a “storewide reduction in prices.” Some people were shocked to learn the stamps weren’t “free.”
I remember S & H stamps. We’d get them from one of the grocery stores. Can still remember the clerk tearing the stamps from a big sheet of them. I think one of the last things I got with Green Stamps, were some bathroom towels. At the time, I didn’t think anything about the quality of them, but by my standards today, they were thin and crappy.
probably takes so many now to “win” a badminton set that you’d be poisoned from the amount of stamp glue that needed to be licked ...
Mom used to have a little yellow plastic cookie jar full of S & H Stamps and the booklets to stick them in.
One day Mom said to us kids our job was to fill all the booklets.
It was fun as my brother and I made a race out of who could fill the most.
Fun, until the glue on the stamps, which wasn’t the tastiest, began being a bit sickening and we went slower and slower as our tongues got coated with the stuff.
Even Kool aid couldn’t get the gunk off our tongues. Although a shot of whiskey would do the trick nowadays.
The look on our faces must have convinced our mother that we done enough for the day and let us go outside or watch TV.
And no, I don’t remember what she redeem the stamps for but I do remember those stamps and the little yellow cookie jar with displeasure!
Anybody remember the Jewel Tea Company? A traveling salesman would come to your house, and bring with him samples of things that were available to purchase. My mother was a sucker for stuff like that. She also sold Avon products at one time when I was young...50’s/60’s.
Imagine conceiving the idea way back in 1896 of a loyalty program with stamps you lick and put into a book. People would have thought you were crazy!
Frankly, I hate sales and loyalty programs. Just give me your best price! Safeway and Albertsons (owned by Safeway) are the absolute worst. There is the regular price. The price for “members.” The special digital coupon price where you have to “clip” a coupon in the phone app. Don’t forget to “clip” it before you arrive at the register, too. There are the specials that appear in the print flier starting on Wednesday that don’t seem to be in the special “member” prices or in the digital coupons.
Half the time their promos don’t work, either. They had Atlantic Salmon “SALE” signs all over the meat department pitching $4.99 per pound. It rang up at $10.99. I had to fight tooth and nail to get the $4.99. I had to walk the cashier back to the meat department to show here the 20 different “SALE” signs they had plastered all over the place. She had to get the meat department manager to ring up the correct price. The line got real long and people were really PO’d at the wait. Even the miserable cashier was mad at me for not just going with the $10.99.
It’s all way too much bother except I do it now that I’m retired and want to save a few bucks.
I still hate shopping and I HATE loyalty programs.
Had a neighbor who ran (President of) Green Stamps. On snow days I plowed their driveway in northern NJ.
I remember King Korn stamps as well as the S&H.
