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1 Cent - Safeway Stores Incorporated Little Rock, Arkansas
| Issuer | Safeway Stores Incorporated |
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| Size | 110 x 57 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 1¢ ONE CENT 1¢ THIS ONE CENT CREDIT SLIP GOOD AT ANY AUTHORIZED SAFEWAY STORE FOOD STAMP CREDIT SLIP FOR USE IN MAKING CHANGE OF 99¢ OR LESS REDEEMABLE ONLY IN ELIGIBLE FOOD SAFEWAY STORES INCORPORATED, LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS SAFEWAY |
| Reverse description | Plain green paper reverse with no printed design; the obverse letterpress impression shows through as a mirror-image ghost, visible across the entire surface. A handwritten notation appears in the lower right corner. |
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Safeway Stores Incorporated issued scrip tokens like this one during the early-to-mid twentieth century, when retailers operating across multiple states sometimes produced their own fractional currency to manage change-making at the register — particularly during coin shortages or as a mechanism for locking customer value back into the store. Little Rock-issued scrip points to local or regional authorization rather than a national Safeway program, suggesting this was a branch-level or district-level initiative rather than corporate policy rolled out system-wide.
Paper cent scrip from named grocery chains survives in surprisingly small quantities; most was redeemed quickly or discarded.