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Whatever happened to S&H Green Stamps? Here's the story with vintage photos
AL.Com ^ | 4/25/16 | Kelly Kazek

Posted on 02/17/2024 11:59:52 AM PST by DallasBiff

Do you remember when a trip to Grandma's meant going through her drawer filled with S&H Green Stamps so you could lick 'em and stick 'em into those little booklets? Green Stamps were offered in certain regions beginning in 1896 but they were most widely distributed in the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1980s, with a peak in the 1960s and '70s.

Did you know you can still redeem any you might find lying around? Yep. S&H is still in business, only altered for a digital world. Read on to learn how to redeem them

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: history; rewardsprogram; shgreenstamps
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To: Red Badger
Anybody remember Top Value Stamps?..................

My Mom collected the Top Value Stamps. She didn't like S&H. I think the big reason was there was a Top Value store less than two miles from our house while the S&H Green Stamp store was on the other side of town.

The thing I remember was she bought me one of those 3' tall Monogram Saturn V rocket kits not long before the Apollo 11 mission. I built that kit and then followed the mission by taking the stages off and leaving what was left while the mission happened.

81 posted on 02/17/2024 3:20:11 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: mass55th; READINABLUESTATE
"My mother borrowed my tongue to glue them onto the pages of the books, I can still taste it."

LOL!! I think all mothers used their kids to lick and stick the stamps. Mine did too.

To this day my tongue is still stuck to the roof of my mouth from those things.

82 posted on 02/17/2024 3:25:17 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: DallasBiff

I believe the S&H stamps were the launching pad of Carlson Companies in MN. Could be mistaken.
Anyone remember Gold Bond stamps? They were just like the S&H racket.


83 posted on 02/17/2024 3:27:25 PM PST by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: V_TWIN

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pic_’N’_Save

Pic’nSave is now Big Lots...............


84 posted on 02/17/2024 3:28:47 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: OldMissileer
"To this day my tongue is still stuck to the roof of my mouth from those things."

ROFL!! And us kids thought it was cool to do it.

85 posted on 02/17/2024 3:33:00 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: LeoTDB69
INB4 CDC issues report that S&H Green Stamps contained a carcinogen in the glue on the back.

That will be just in California. Everything causes cancer there.

86 posted on 02/17/2024 3:34:24 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Interesting. Pretty much coincides with Warren Buffet’s massive investment in Blue Chip stamps. I only lived in California for two years (1981-83) so don’t know if S&H declined when Buffet decided to promoted Blue Chip or not. Your thoughts?


87 posted on 02/17/2024 3:40:06 PM PST by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Red Badger

Yep; and S & H


88 posted on 02/17/2024 3:43:05 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: mass55th; Red Badger

Fuller Brush Man


89 posted on 02/17/2024 3:44:50 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: mass55th; linMcHlp

We had a similar guy in Rural Mississippi, called ‘Standard Coffee’, sold various cleaning chemicals, coffee, kitchen gadgets and candy out of a Ford Econoline van......................


90 posted on 02/17/2024 3:48:02 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

That kind of work was a good gig, if you could create a travel circuit that worked for you.

One day, a guy showed up with Ice Cream. Just happened to be perfect time and place - whole neighborhood bought and kept buying.

Another guy, Potato Chips. This fellow drove out in an arc around the fringes of his contemporaries’ travels. Just happened to be the right place, at the right time. Really big cans of potato chips.

Maybe 1 tinsmith in the mid-1950’s. Milkman (milk, butter, eggs into the mid-1960’s). Diapers (booming business; and then nothing, circa 1959 - “thanks to” Proctor * Gamble). And of course, the Fuller Brush Man (really good brushes, not “Made in Japan”).


91 posted on 02/17/2024 4:01:16 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: Vigilanteman

I dimly recall S&H Green Stamps disappearing sometime in the early’70s and Blue Chip Stamps taking over around the same time. I usually got mine when I filled up at a gas station and occasionally at a market.


92 posted on 02/17/2024 4:03:24 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: linMcHlp

Charles Chips.........................


93 posted on 02/17/2024 4:03:57 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

That might have been the Co.; tx.


94 posted on 02/17/2024 4:05:40 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: mass55th

Watkins sold extracts and spices, and various household items. The movie made in 2002 about Bill Porter was called Door to Door.

I haven’t seen any door-to-door salesmen of anything for a long time now.


95 posted on 02/17/2024 4:07:15 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: linMcHlp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Chips
96 posted on 02/17/2024 4:07:36 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: DallasBiff

I remember them along with Gun Bro’s Stamps. With Green Stamps mom got us boys a knife-axe kit each! lots of later items too! Then suddenly Green Stamp stores were gone.


97 posted on 02/17/2024 4:13:12 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
"I haven’t seen any door-to-door salesmen of anything for a long time now."

The only people who have shown up at my apartment door are Jehovah Witness followers, and sales people from alternative gas and electric companies. Thankfully those have petered out. When they did show up, I never even opened the door to them, and simply said "Not interested," before they'd could start their spiel.

98 posted on 02/17/2024 4:20:12 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

I don’t think door-to-door salesmen would do very well around here. Too far between houses, and most people aren’t very keen on uninvited visitors. Jehovah’s Witnesses can show up anywhere (got some once at a BLM station that was almost the only habitation on a 55-mile stretch of highway), but they haven’t come to my door yet.


99 posted on 02/17/2024 5:09:22 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: V_TWIN; Red Badger

In Gatortown, we called it Choose-N-Lose.


100 posted on 02/17/2024 6:27:35 PM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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