Plaid Stamps Mugs

Description: Remembering Plaid Stamps. Other stores issued S&H Green Stamps or Top Value Stamps, but the A&P grocery store chain issued Plaid Stamps for purchases in their stores. We spent hours pasting them in the books to redeem them for a toaster.

Description: S&H Green Stamps was 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. During the 1960s, the company promoted its rewards catalog as being the largest publication in the United States and boasted that it issued three times as many stamps as the U.S. Postal Service. Customers received stamps at the checkout counter of supermarkets, department stores, and gasoline stations among other retailers, that could be redeemed for products in their catalog.