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.

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

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

During the 1950s and '60s, trading stamps were a popular way for grocery stores and other merchants to help drive customer loyalty.

Cooking Up Rewards at the Grocery Store

451-4(b)(1)(iii) specifies that the estimated average cost of redeeming each trading stamp or coupon shall include only the amount the taxpayer paid to acquire the merchandise, cash, or other property needed to redeem the coupons.

Customer reward programs: deducting fulfillment costs prior to economic performance

Tesco had been taken to court for selling goods below the manufacturers' prices and as a way round this trading stamps were introduced, thus providing a discount at the check out.

The rise and rise of Tesco

The Pennywise label, created by MSpace Design of Sonoma, features the impression of a penny coin and is modeled after old-fashioned trading stamps, which were once issued by grocers and other retailers to build store loyalty.

Don Sebastiani & Sons Releases New Luxury Napa Valley Label

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

He is currently personally directing several new projects, one of which could spell the "rebirth" of the industry which began his empire -- trading stamps -- utilizing modern electronic smart-card technology instead of paper-and-glue stamps.

CARLSON COMPANIES' CHAIRMAN CURT CARLSON INDUCTED INTO BRITISH TRAVEL INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME; He is first American inductee into exclusive British group

This regulation provides an exception to the all-events test for taxpayers that issue trading stamps or coupons with sales when the coupons are redeemable for future merchandise or cash.

Fourth Circuit rejects retroactive accounting method change

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