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1 Cent - Lucky Stores Incorporated California

1 Cent - Lucky Stores Incorporated (California) - obverse1 Cent - Lucky Stores Incorporated (California) - reverse

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Features

Location United States
Type Trade vouchers
Value 1 Cent (0.01 USD)
Currency Dollar (1785-date)
Composition Papier
Size 135 × 63 mm
Shape Prostokątny
Number
N#
413131
References Schimmel# 111
Jerry F. Schimmel; 1998. Catalogue of California food stamp credit tokens : 1939-1979: including Nevada food stamp credit. Western States Token Society.

Obverse

Zielony papier z zieloną obwódką, jeden cent w środku banknotu. Motywy po lewej i prawej stronie przedstawiające artykuły sklepowe i 3 rzędy artykułów spożywczych.Automatically translated

Script: łaciński

Lettering:
Lucky Stores INC. FOOD COUPON CHANGE
Non-transferable
GOOD ONLY AT LUCKY STORES AUTHORIZED TO PARTICIPATE
IN THE FEDERAL FOOD STAMP PROGRAM

Comments

(en)

In 1970, the Food Stamp Act Amendment established national eligibility standards and work registration requirements for the Food Stamp Program (FSP). The amendment also required that allotments be equal to the cost of a nutritious diet, limited households to spending 30% of their income on purchases, and expanded the FSP to Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. 

Lucky Stores is a supermarket chain founded in San Leandro, California in 1935 by Charles Crouch. Crouch named the stores Lucky with the goal of making them the cleanest, freshest, quickest, most organized, and easiest to shop at. Albertsons operates Lucky Stores in Utah, and Save Mart Supermarkets operates them in Northern California. Save Mart also owns and operates Food Maxx stores in northern and central California and northern Nevada. 

 

Also see Gemco Stores which was a division of Lucky

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