5 Cents - Dominick's Finer Foods

Dominick's Finer Foods was a Chicago-area supermarket chain founded in 1918 that grew into one of the Midwest's dominant grocery operators before being acquired by Safeway in 1998. This 5-cent note is a piece of scrip — almost certainly issued for use in a promotional context, as a coupon-adjacent instrument, or for making change at in-store service counters, a practice that persisted among large American retailers well into the latter half of the twentieth century. The exact issuance period is unconfirmed, but the physical format is consistent with mid-century American retail scrip production.