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1 Cent - Safeway Stores, Incorporated Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
| Issuer | Safeway Stores, Incorporated |
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| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-tinted paper with a woven basket-weave underprint. A decorative letterpress border with scrollwork and curling foliate ornaments frames all four corners, with yin-yang symbols at left and right centre. Denomination value "1¢" appears at all four corners; all text is set in typewriter-style letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP 1¢ 1¢ Good at any Safeway Store authorized under the U.S.D.A. FOOD STAMP PROGRAM For use in making change of 49¢ or less to eligible households SAFEWAY STORES, INCORPORATED Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
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Safeway's Depression-era scrip program was a direct response to the coin shortage that plagued retail commerce across the United States in the early 1930s. Rather than lose small-denomination sales to the simple unavailability of cents in circulation, chains like Safeway issued their own fractional paper currency — redeemable in-store only, effectively locking customer change back into future purchases. The Oklahoma City issue places this within a regional distribution network rather than a single store, suggesting centralized scrip management at the district level.