trading stamps

a form of SALES PROMOTION whereby a retailer gives customers stamps that have a value related to the value of purchases made and that can then be redeemed for goods or cash.

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Laws Stores announced: "We are utterly against trading stamps. We feel that some customers my be hoodwinked into these stamps by the lure of an illusion of something for nothing.

Remember When: Store wars broke out over stamps; Reward scheme divided North East's retailers

Others soon followed and the trading stamps were still in circulation until 1977.

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There were ups and downs, but by the 1960s, Carlson's Gold Bond trading stamps had 30 percent of the multimillion-dollar market.

Global Heavyweight: Marilyn Carlson Nelson waited nearly a lifetime to become CEO of Carlson Cos. Now she plans to take the top travel services firm to greater heights

* Stamp Haters who preferred no trading stamps and typically were concerned about competitive prices.

Consumers' use of recommended food buying practices

Continuing interest was displayed in issues such as sales evaluation, self-selection, electronic data processing, government regulation, trading stamps, the retailing mix, sales productivity, controls, and the shopping center's impact on the central business district.

1949-1989: retail reflections

Additionally, the Tax Court held that the regulation governing "trading stamps" did not apply to the discounts that Giant Eagle customers accrued through fuelperks!

Potential expiration is not an event

By 1962, trading stamps had peaked, with estimated sales of $671 million.

New Frontiers Of The 1950s

The British Kidney Patient Association can use postage stamps, trading stamps, petrol vouchers, cigarette coupons, air miles and foreign coins to raise money for portable kidney machines.

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1.451-4 provides a narrowly construed exception to the economic performance rules that allows accrual-basis taxpayers who issue premium coupons (or trading stamps) to deduct the estimated fulfillment cost of the coupons (or stamps) at the time they are issued.

Customer reward programs: deducting fulfillment costs prior to economic performance

1.451-4 provides a method of computing net income for taxpayers that issue or sell qualifying trading stamps or premium coupons that are redeemable by that taxpayer for merchandise, cash, or other property.

Accounting for customer loyalty programs: opportunities and pitfalls

By the mid-1950s, trading stamps had become a consumer craze with thousands of devoted collectors.

Retailer of the Year: The Rite Stuff

You can send used postage stamps, Green Shield, Pink Shield, Co-op and other trading stamps, spent telephone cards and petrol and cigarette coupons.