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1 Cent - Safeway Stores Arizona
| Issuer | Safeway Stores, Phoenix Division |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Pink paper voucher with an ornate dotted and scrollwork border. The issuer name and denomination appear in bold letterpress at centre, flanked by two sunburst vignettes enclosing the numeral "1" at left and right. A fine repetitive text underprint covers the entire field. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pink reverse printed entirely with a repetitive fine geometric basket-weave underprint pattern in a lighter rose tint, with no additional text or vignette. Show-through of the obverse lettering is visible from the thin paper stock. |
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Safeway operated its own scrip programs in various regions during the mid-twentieth century, issuing fractional denominations to facilitate change-making — a common retail workaround during periods of coin shortages or internal accounting convenience. The Phoenix Division designation points to regional rather than corporate-level issuance, meaning these circulated within a specific store network rather than systemwide.
Retail scrip of this type was never redeemable for cash, only against purchases, which kept it firmly within the issuer's ecosystem. Few customers bothered to save it.