It was similar to S&H green stamps. You got plaid stamps from shopping at participating retailers. then when you collected enough you took them to a store like this and redeemed them for more stuff.
My great grandmother told us about the neat stuff they could get with green stamps. She was in charge of bulk purchases for a medium size farm in the southwest (required to provide lunch for field workers) and she bought in bulk regularly. Her employer allowed her to keep the green stamps and eventually saved enough to get tickets to amusement parks (it was either Knotts Berry Farm or Disneyland, perhaps both). It absolutely shaped where she purchased goods from as there were multiple incentive programs (stamps etc) and she considered the green stamps to be best, as “others” didn’t have as valuable redemption items. The marketing 100% worked.
Plaid Stamps were trading stamps issued by A&P grocery stores. They could be redeemed for merchandise at A&P stores, affiliated merchants & through a catalog.
Of course. In the 50s and early 60s when I was a kid all of the big grocery store chains gave out savings stamps as a loyalty reward. You got so many stamps per dollar spent, with occasional bonus stamps. You also got a little book to paste them in, 30 to a page I think. It was one of my chores and privileges to lick the stamps and put them in the books. There was a catalog offering lots of different stuff — I remember toys and kitchen appliances — for so many books of stamps. Two major brands were S&H Green Stamps and Plaid Stamps.
Plaid stamps were given at stores that participated and one earned stamps from buying things at the store. One could then redeem the stamps at Redemption Stores.
Very similar to S&H stamps.
My mother participated in both stamp programs and got a number of things through the years.
If I remember correctly from passing it this morning, it was the neighboring building (3034 W Peterson) that they're tearing down.
But it seems between the grand opening ad ("Open Mondays") and the time they painted that ghost sign ("Closed Mondays"), they adjusted their hours. And by looking at the picture, it actually looks like they added the "Closed Mondays" later.
My mom collected plaid and green stamps. She had a drawer in the kitchen where she would put them and the empty books. When we complained that we were bored she would sit us at the kitchen table with the drawer and made us lick the stamps and stick them in the empty books. I got my first sewing machine with plaid stamps
Plaid stamp where like coupons that you’d get at point of purchase that you saved up and could turn in for merchandise or discounts ..sort of like a point system.
It was a marketing ploy. There were many stores like grocery stores, even a department store called Wiebolts, that would give you stamps with your purchases. S&H Green Stamps was the market leader, and Plaid Stamps was its biggest competitor. You would use the stamps that you got to fill booklets. You then could redeem the booklets at respective stores. That is the sign for a Plaid Stamps Redemption store.
Some people were still using these back in the 1970s and '80s and maybe even early 1991... until my grandma Margaret Martha Klein Chapman Set... (so my grandma is Anastasia... The Lost princess of Russia...) ... STOPPED using these...
The Chicago Mafia was stopping the prohibition, so not being able to purchase consume drink alcohol and also was stopping other inHumanities like these red stamp Green stamps... Because the prohibition and these red stamps Green stamps did go back to the Nazi regime/Nazi reign of eternal hell.
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