1 Cent - Hy-Vee

Hy-Vee Food Stores, the employee-owned Midwestern supermarket chain founded in 1930 in Beaconsfield, Iowa, issued scrip coupons of this kind primarily for use within their cafeteria and in-store food service operations — a practical internal currency that bypassed the need for small-change handling at point of sale. The employee-ownership structure made in-house scrip administratively straightforward in ways it would not be for a publicly traded retailer.

Collector interest in grocery and retail scrip from American regional chains has grown steadily since the 1990s, but documentation on specific Hy-Vee issues remains thin.