Trading stamps struggle to rebound amid inflation and energy crunch
The trading stamp industry seeks new markets to regain preinflation sales. Industry leaders note stamps down but not out, eyeing independent grocers, drugstores, discount shops, and truck stops as revenues while supermarkets and gas stations scale back.
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Clint Wade
The
Trading Stamp Institute of America
Wade
Stamp pricing sparks debate amid merchant remarks
An institute spokesman warned a 1.6 cent rise in prices per dollar, while stamp industry spokesmen dispute the claim. Wade calls stamps advertising and not a cause for food price hikes. Rooney argues trading stamps do not raise prices and notes retailers spend about 4 percent of gross sales on merchandising including in store promotions.
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Wade
Super Market Institute
Institute
A&p
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Safeway
Tom Rooney
S&h Green Stamp Division
Sperry and Hutchinson Co
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