A grocer talks about his business and why he gives S&H Green Stamps at his store. "Don't let me go home without my S&H Green Stamps. My wife will shoot me if I go home without 'em!"
I remember my mom saving the stamps and redeeming them. I thought it was really a treat to go to the redemption center with her. When I was a young bride in the early seventies, stores were still giving the stamps. I still have a lamp I got with the stamps way back when.
Wow. A guy at a grocery store opened the car door for a lady. Now you're lucky if somebody says thank you and doesn't flick their cigarette at you on their smoke break.
This Video B.B.M Brings Back Memories Of The Way People Were I The Good Ole Days My Mom Used To Buy Many Many Things With S&H Green Stamps Oh How Wish That I Had Some S&H Green Stamps In Today's Day & Time I Could Surely Use Them Believe Me.Thanks For Posting This Beautiful Video👍🏿⭐👍🏿⭐👍🏿⭐👍🏿
my mom passed away a couple years back and when we cleaned out her stuff we found a shoe box packed full of S&H green stamps it looked like she had enough to buy the hole store if she wanted to .
Customers also paid for all the newspaper advertising and any other promotions the grocery stores did. In the sixties and seventies stores dropped stamps, lowered prices for a couple of weeks and then raised them back up again without stamps. I always liked trading stamps myself. Wish they'd bring them back.
If perchance you have any S&H Green Stamps there is a link below that tells you how to redeem those stamps. Crazy how you are looking at vintage lunchboxes one minute, then reading about Top Value stamps, those were the yellow that had a mascot of 'Toppie' the elephant and now, here. I had no idea the green stamps were started in 1896. (See below if you still have beaucoup stashed as there are no expiration according to below.) I do not know if links work as I did a copy & paste. A side note: I had a space themed lunchbox and have memory recall of bologna & cheese, tuna--Miracle Whip as my mom hated mayo. I loved strawberry milk & a 2nd grade lunch monitor told me I wasn't allowed to bring "pink milk" anymore. I was in 1st grade and had nelted down to tears. My daddy was a bus driver who picked me up on Saturdays to drive Stamford, Norwalk, etc. The girl who had made me cry was getting on the bus. He let all passengers on & before he moved the bus, he crooked his finger at her to come over. I held my breath as he asked her sternly if she'd told me no to pink milk. She was pale when she sat down. I have had anxiety prior to Kindergarten and PTSD before it was known as such as trauma galloped in. Pink milk was a piece of cake! The article that mentioned space themed lunchboxes, addressed *the boys who dreamt of the moon and stars,* didn't get rhe memo, girls have such dreams, too! 🍐🌲🍏🐦🍐🌲🍏🐦🍐🌲🍏🐦 [Gas stations and department stores also gave stamps too.] Other types of stamps, too. S&H Green Stamps were a line of trading stamps popular in the United States from the 1930s until the late 1980s. They were distributed as part of a rewards program operated by the Sperry & Hutchinson company (S&H), founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelley Byron Hutchinson. Can you still use S&H Green Stamps? Today, S&H offers "greenpoints" as rewards for purchases made on the Internet. However, if you still hold some Green Stamps, they do not expire and you can redeem them for greenpoints or cash. www.wikihow.com/Redeem-S%26H-Green-Stamps
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In the '60s, my grandfather used to complain that savings stamps were a racket that people were too ignorant to realize was being foisted on them. He said people thought they were getting stuff for free when they turned in books of stamps, but that actually, they'd really paid for these items because the store would mark up prices to cover the cost. And he was right, but people still carefully saved them to get card tables and folding chairs.
In the 1960s it took 1,200 stamps to fill a book. You got 1 stamp per dime you spent, so to fill a book with 1,200 stamps you would have to spend $120. In the 1960s $120 was not chump change. I vaguely remember it took quite a few books to exchange them for merchandise. I also recall back about 1965 my church asked parishioners to donate S&H filled books to buy a new station wagon for the nuns who resided and taught at the school. I don't recall the model station wagon it was but they needed about 3,000 or 3,500 books to get that wagon. They were successful in people donating enough books to get the car. You could also redeem the books for cash. In the 1960s they paid $1.20 for a full book. As mentioned above, one would have to spend $120 to have the 1,200 stamps to fill the book. Therefore, the S&H program was equivalent to getting a 1% cash back on store purchases. Today, one can get 2% or 3% on purchases they make using credit cards. No mess of storing, pasting stamps in books, etc. In 1970, I worked at a grocery store (National Tea Co.) that gave out Green Stamps. I asked my boss at the time “How much does it cost the store to give them out?” and he replied “$62.50 for 25,000 stamps”. So, for every $2,500 customers spent, it cost the store $62.50, or, 1% of the sale price.
@@stanleykijek6983 but,then again...the profit margin for grocery stores are pretty slim,between 2-3%. so,1% of the sale price is kinda big. so...$120 in 1960s is almost like $1000 nowadays,but,does the item in the books worth that much?
@@ssllsg9439 I doubt if the items were worth that much (in proportion to today's dollar value). I guess my point is that back then, one would receive approximately a 1% rebate on purchases they made (if they opted on receiving cash instead of merchandise) but had to go through the bother of receiving stamps, putting them in books and having to go somewhere to redeem them, as there was no electronic way of dealing with purchases back then. Today one can use certain credit cards and get cash back automatically (sometimes as much as 3%) without having to do anything except set up an account and start making purchases.
@@stanleykijek325 ' I doubt if the items were worth that much (in proportion to today's dollar value).' i just used the inFlation calculator. AFAIK,the price oF items are proportional to the currency calculator.
@@alohaoy Yeah, no. The narrator's reading a script, saying: I am Jerry Speck, the grocer. I am betting you hear this guy's voice overs in A LOT of media way back then. There were the yellow Top Value stamps as well. I think there was a mascot so to speak of an elephant named "Toppie?" Somehow, plaid came into play.
