1 Cent - Shopping Cart Supermarket New York, New York

Shopping Cart Supermarket was one of hundreds of independent grocery operations that issued their own cent-denomination paper scrip during the mid-twentieth century, primarily as a mechanism for making change without depleting coin reserves — a persistent problem for small retailers during periods of coin shortages in the United States. These notes circulated purely within the store's own register system and had no redemption value elsewhere.

New York City grocers were particularly active scrip issuers. Most examples from operations this small survive only by accident.