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1 Cent - Bi-Lo Food Stores New York
| Issuer | Independent Bi-Lo Food Stores |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper with black letterpress printing. A large oval vignette at centre bears the bold "BI-LO" logotype within a dark field, inscribed "INDEPENDENT" above and "FOOD STORES" below. Four circled "1¢" numerals occupy the corners, with "FOOD STAMP SCRIPT" at top and "GOOD AT ANY BI-LO STORE" at base. |
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| Obverse lettering | FOOD STAMP SCRIPT 1¢ 1¢ INDEPENDENT BI-LO FOOD STORES GOOD AT ANY BI-LO STORE 1¢ 1¢ |
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Bi-Lo Food Stores was a regional supermarket chain that issued its own scrip tokens and paper coupons as part of promotional and change-making schemes common among independent grocers in mid-twentieth century America. These small-denomination paper pieces — fractions of a dollar — circulated within individual store ecosystems rather than any broader monetary network, functioning as rounding devices in an era when penny-exact change was both expected and operationally inconvenient at scale.
New York's independent grocery trade was intensely competitive, and store-specific scrip helped lock customers into repeat visits. Whether this piece was ever formally redeemed in quantity is unknown.