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1 Cent - Safeway Stores Houston, Texas
| Issuer | Safeway Stores, Incorporated – Houston Division |
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| Year | 1975-1978 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Plain light grey horizontally lined underprint on paper stock, printed in olive-green throughout. The four corners each bear a circular Safeway 'S' logo vignette. The upper portion carries the programmatic authorization text in bold capitals, with 'FOOD STAMP PROGRAM' rendered in the largest typeface at centre. Below, a redemption clause appears in italics, followed by a horizontal rule and the issuing division name. A vertical serial number is printed along the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, with no printed text, vignette, or decorative elements; faint ghosting of the obverse impression is visible through the paper stock. |
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Safeway's Houston Division issued fractional paper scrip during the mid-1970s as a practical workaround for the chronic small-coin shortage that had plagued retail operations since the late 1960s. Rather than round up transactions, Safeway issued these internally redeemable certificates to give customers exact change in paper form. The Houston Division operated its own scrip program independently of the national chain's other regional divisions, which is why these notes carry specific geographic attribution.
Collector interest is narrow but consistent — corporate scrip from major grocery chains rarely survives in quantity, most having been redeemed or discarded by customers who saw no reason to keep a cent-denomination slip of paper.