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 ...

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 from ...

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 ...

Everybody has to eat, so there are few experiences more universal than grocery shopping. Our series Market Memories looks at how that experience in the Des Moines metro has changed over the years.

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 ...

These little booklets and stamps will be familiar to older folks. Trading stamps were once issued by grocers, retailers and gas stations to their customers with every purchase made. Consumers pasted ...

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 ...

These days, we earn Starbucks bonus stars, Target Circle rewards and a host of other loyalty programs directly from individual retailers. Though they existed then, such programs were less commonplace ...

BERLIN (AP) - Everything seems to have gone digital, even trading stamps at the World Cup. What was once a children's hobby of collecting, trading and pasting actual stamps in a book can now be done ...

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 ...