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1 Cent - Shopping Bag Food Stores Inc.
| Issuer | Shopping Bag Food Stores Inc. |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | Light green paper with a fine guilloche underprint throughout. Two ornate vignettes at left and right each bear the numeral "1¢" within an elaborate lathe-work cartouche. The issuer name "Shopping Bag" appears in bold script at top centre, with denomination and redemption text in letterpress below, framed by decorative guilloche borders at top and bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | Shopping Bag FOOD COUPON CREDIT 1¢ ONE CENT 1¢ Redeemable only in any U.S.D.A. Licensed SHOPPING BAG FOOD STORES, INC. NOT REDEEMABLE FOR CASH REDEEMABLE ONLY IN FOOD PRODUCTS ELIGIBLE UNDER THE U.S.D.A. FOOD STAMP PROGRAM |
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Shopping Bag Food Stores was a regional supermarket chain operating primarily in California from the 1940s through the 1970s, and like many American retailers of that period, it issued its own scrip to encourage customer loyalty and smooth small-denomination transactions at the checkout. These merchant tokens and paper issues occupied a legal grey area — technically redeemable only at the issuer's own locations, which kept them outside federal currency regulations.
Paper retail scrip of this type survives almost entirely by accident, stuffed in drawers or tucked into old wallets. The chain was absorbed through acquisition, leaving no institution to honor redemptions.