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Originally Posted by claytonx
Shops bought Green Shield Stamps and gave them away to customers for buying at their shop and to tempt them to come back.You saved the stamps in books provided and you were also given at the time a catalogue with gifts in,when you had enough books filled you could exchange them for gifts to that value either by post, or there was a shop at Blackpool where you could go and choose there.
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All the fitters at Shopfitters used to save Green Shield stamps, just think when you were filling up Bedford TK with about 50 gallons with quadruple stamps, I had dozens of books full of stamps, if I remember rightly swapped um for somat. Green Shield main office was in Edgware north London and there was a big store where you could trade um in