1 Cent - Safeway Stores, Incorporated Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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.