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1 Cent - Warehouse Food Outlet Los Angeles, California
| Issuer | Warehouse Food Outlet |
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| Year | 1960-1979 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1785-date) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on white paper with a decorative scalloped border and spiral guilloche patterns along all four margins. Two serrated circular lozenges at left and right carry the denomination "1¢"; the central field bears the issuer name and redemption text in mixed roman and italic type. The W.F.O. diamond logotype appears in the lower left and right corners. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1¢ ONE CENT 1¢ FOOD STAMP CREDIT Redeemable Only By Participant of U.S. Government Food Stamp Program for Food Items on Authorized List. . Only at Warehouse Food Outlet. Warehouse Food Outlet WAREHOUSE W.F.O. FOOD OUTLET |
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Warehouse Food Outlet was a Southern California discount grocery chain that issued paper scrip in cent denominations — almost certainly as till change tokens during a period when small coin shortages and high transaction volumes made fractional cents genuinely inconvenient at the register. This kind of merchant scrip was never legal tender and carried no obligation beyond the issuing store, which also meant redemption was entirely at the retailer's discretion.
The 1960s–70s dating window is characteristic of when such schemes peaked among California volume grocers before electronic point-of-sale systems made fractional rounding obsolete.