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1 Cent - Safeway Stores, Incorporated Kansas City, Missouri
| Issuer | Safeway Stores, Incorporated |
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| Year | 1975-1978 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | THIS 1₵ CREDIT SLIP 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 Kansas City, Missouri |
| Reverse description | Plain yellow paper with a continuous fine basket-weave underprint covering the entire surface; no printed text or vignette. |
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Safeway issued these fractional paper coupons during the mid-1970s to address a practical problem: the U.S. coin shortage of that decade made giving exact change in small grocery transactions genuinely awkward. Several large retail chains adopted similar in-house scrip systems as a stopgap. The Kansas City designation on these notes reflects a regional distribution point rather than a corporate headquarters — Safeway's actual head office was in Oakland, California.
Not legal tender, not redeemable for cash — usable only toward future Safeway purchases, which is precisely why so many were simply discarded rather than spent.