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Subject: Re: Coop Tickets
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 15:32:29 EDT



In a message dated 25/09/2004 18:43:28 GMT Daylight Time,
writes:

I didnt realize you had Green Shield stamps in England, I lived in the US
back in those days and used to save them, got a whole set of Samsonite
luggage with mine.



It was Sperry & Hutchinson who issued Green Stamps in the US but another
organisation beat them to the colour in the UK when they started the completely
separate Green Shield Stamps. This left S&H with the task of finding another
colour and they chose pink.

Unfortunately, Green Shield had most of the market sewn up by then and S&H's
only large customer was a UK supermarket chain called Victor Value, which
was not a raging success. With VV's demise, S&H seem to have left the UK market.

For the record, the successor to Green Shield is still going as Argos (with
Premier Points as the later incarnation of a reward scheme) although it has
had several changes in owner since those days.

DaveD

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