Oct. 30—It's been 40 some years, but we're again collecting trading stamps and it brings back fond memories of Gold Bond and S&H Green stamps. Everyone collected the sheets of stamps, which they got ...

FARGO — If you were to utter the following words to anyone under the age of 40, they might give you a quizzical look: “I walked away with a ton of green stamps from Red Owl today.” Those Millennials ...

The trading-stamp explosion began in the 1950s. By the end of the decade, competition was fierce. Hardly anything could be bought without some form of trading stamps being thrown into the package. In ...

FARGO — If you were to utter the following words to anyone under the age of 40, they might give you a quizzical look: “I walked away with a ton of green stamps from Red Owl today.” Those Millennials ...

When I was a kid, many stores handed out S&H Green Stamps to customers. There were no credit card rewards points in those days. When you got home you put your stamps in your S&H book and when it was ...

It was bound to come. Trading stamps have become a way of life for so many U.S. housewives that the stamp people claim that 90% of American homes are saving up for “free” gifts. It is a rare grocer ...

IN their race for the consumer’s dollar, U.S. retailers have turned the old trading-stamp gimmick into the hottest sales idea of the postwar decade. By playing on the housewife’s weakness for ...