Talk:Trading stamp

message: "Philip K. Dick wrote several novels set in a future society where trading stamps have replaced currency, among which Galactic Pot-Healer, and Nicholas and the Higs (one of his several early, unpublished novels)."
We have what appears to be two noun and a conjunction following"among which" but no verb. Shouldn't it be "among which ARE", indicating that those are the titles of those novels?  PKD wrote a lot of stories that influenced other authors, so I'm against deleting the content, but those titles need to link to their respective pages, and there needs to be a reference to a Reliable Source, as Wikipedia itself doesn't qualify as an RS.  12.193.238.99 (talk) 20:28, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: What about "Galactic Pot-Healer, and Nicholas and the Higs"

message: This seems incredibly early.  I still remember many supermarkets issuing the stamps when I was young in the late 1960s and early 1970s, so the flat statement that "supermarkets stopped issuing them in 1965" is simply wrong. (I'm willing to believe the decline may have started then, but even the Wikipedia page on S&H Green Stamps... the specific brand I remember... has them still in business in 1999, which is a long time to operate if literally no one is still issuing the stamps.)Ptorquemada (talk) 02:16, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I would agree but maybe our memories were informed by living in fly-over country which may have been insulated, to some extent, to changes in the industry.  Remember, we're talking about the '60's - before the homogenization of American culture.  The point the author made seems to be backed up by the reference to which note [5] links.  NorthCoastReader (talk) 23:33, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

text: The Sperry and Hutchinson still exists, but the 1965 date pretty well jibes with my memory for A&P and Kroger to drop S&H.  My local IGA, the local Marathon station, and local Gambles store dropped TV stamps a couple of months later.  
Part of the economics of trading stamps was that merchants bought and handed out more stamps than were ever redeemed, and even if they were redeemed, the stamp company had the interest-free use of that money for years before redemption.  
Maloley Brothers, largest supermarket chain in Fort Wayne, had their own "M&M Stamps" until the family sold out to SuperValu in 1980.  The redemption center stayed open another sex or twelve months after that.  The manager of their trading stamp store told me that they made enough from people buying for cash or adding cash to too-few stamps that the cash alone kept the store open,but eventually traffic tailed off.  In effect, the supermarkets only needed to pay for printing stamps and booklets, and the cashiers' labor in dispensing them, so they could keep giving away stamps 15 years after everyone else stopped giving them out. 
When I bought a newspaper in 1971. a number of store managers told me they *hated* stamps, and referred to S&H and Top Value (a slightly cheaper stamp for merchants) as "bloodsucking leeches." 12.193.238.99 (talk) 20:28, 26 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "bottom fell out" .. 1965?? 

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