In the prime of Green Stamps' popularity, S&H redemption books and catalogs ranked among the most-printed and distributed items in the United States. How cool was this: After you paid for groceries or ...

Much like raffle tickets or rewards points, people could use their green stamps to get cool products from the S&H Catalog and redemption centers around the country. Green stamps were so popular that ...

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 ...

While reading your recent column about Green Stamps ("Seacoast Sunday," July 26, 2009), I remembered a huge batch of them in my grandparents' attic. I mentioned to Granny that, according to "Ask Jerry ...

I thumbed through a book of memories last week: a 1956 S&H Green Stamps catalogue my wife unearthed in her mom’s treasure trove of an attic. It didn’t take looking at two pages of the thing to have me ...

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 ...

SALEM, Mass. -- Once upon a time, there was money, and there were S&H Green Stamps. Green Stamps were the alternative currency of the booming postwar consumer society of the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

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 ...

It was the 1950s. Saturday morning. I was a little kid, once again living with my grandparents. My grandmother, Miz Lena, and the two black ladies who worked for her, Elizabeth and Dimple, were in the ...

She was 8-years-old standing in line with her father outside the local Blue Chip Stamp redemption store in 1959 waiting to exchange the book of stamps in her hand for a popular children’s book she ...

Today there are a number of reward schemes on offer at supermarkets that we can sign up to, from Clubcard points at Tesco to Nectar points at Sainsburys. But many will remember the days of collecting ...