I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, whether gathering around the dining room table with friends and family, celebrating with others at a community Thanksgiving dinner, or enjoying a home-delivered
Back in the day, supermarkets, gas stations, department stores and other locations handed out stamps with purchases. Those stamps could be redeemed for items.
Whatever Happened to Green Stamps?
I was sitting around talking to some friends when one walked in with a purse the size of Montana and I said to her “you must have everything including Green Stamps in there”. She laughed with the rest of us and it got us to talking about the days of Green Stamps in the United States. I remember my Mom collecting Green Stamps when she went to the grocery store. They were known as S&H Green Stamps and were popular from the 1930’s to the 1980’s.
According to Wikipedia, they were distributed as part of a rewards program operated by the Sperry & Hutchinson Company (S&H) which was founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson.