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5 Cents - Food Stamp Scrip Acme Click
| Issuer | The Fred W. Albrecht Grocery Co. |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | CLICK ACME GOOD FOR 5c ON THE PURCHASE OF FOOD ISSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOOD STAMP PLAN. Not Valid Without Official Store Stamp TREASURER THE FRED W. ALBRECHT GROCERY CO. 5c 5c |
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| Signature(s) | James R. Berry, Treasurer |
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The Fred W. Albrecht Grocery Co. was an Akron, Ohio-based grocery chain that operated from 1891 well into the twentieth century under the Acme Click retail brand. Food stamp scrip of this type was issued by private grocers during the Depression years as a supplementary exchange medium — customers earning fractional change in scrip were effectively locked into returning to the same store, which was precisely the point.
James R. Berry's treasurer signature places this within the company's corporate-era operations rather than its early family-run period. Small-denomination scrip below 10 cents is disproportionately scarce; most was redeemed quickly or simply lost.