Trading stamp

Gold Bond trading stamps were dispensed in strips at the time of purchase and pasted into books for saving.

Trading stamps were small paper stamps given to customers by merchants in loyalty programs in the United States, Canada and the U.K. which predated the modern loyalty card-based[1] and online programs. Like the similarly-issued retailer coupons, these stamps only had a minimal cash value of a few mils (thousandths of a dollar) individually, but when a customer accumulated a number of them, they could be exchanged with the trading stamp company (usually a third-party issuer of the stamps) for premiums, such as toys, personal items, housewares, furniture and appliances.[2] In trading stamp programs in Hong Kong continued to operate.

  1. ^ Morrell, Alan (July 31, 2015). "Whatever Happened To ... trading stamps?". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  2. ^ Lonto, Jeff R. (2000). "THE TRADING STAMP STORY (or: When Trading Stamps Stuck)". studioz7. Retrieved 2015-12-27.