arsegrapes 10:21 Tue Mar 27
Green Shield Stamps
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Why did they ever do away with these? Spoiled for choice in the Green Shield Stamp shops. Still got some in the back of the drawer, will be worth something one day, mark my words.
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Far Cough
10:23 Tue Mar 27
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Nectar points now
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Nurse Ratched
11:36 Tue Mar 27
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Christ this takes me back. The green ones and also the big blue ones. Double bubble. As long as you could run faster than the paedos, the 70s were a great time to be a kid.
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Northern Sold
11:48 Tue Mar 27
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I can still taste them.... * spits *
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Spandex Sidney
11:49 Tue Mar 27
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Here's 200 for sale
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UNUSED-GREEN-SHIELD-STAMPS-4-SHEETS-OF-50-BLOCK-BACK-STILL-HAS-USABLE-GLUE-/391990082937?_trksid=p2385738.m4383.l4275.c10
£2.99 for that lot. Remains unsold.
LUMP ON!
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Nurse Ratched
11:49 Tue Mar 27
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The paedos? :-(
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arsegrapes
11:57 Tue Mar 27
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Memories not what it was so had a butchers on wiki and found this.
In a 1979 episode of British sitcom Fawlty Towers, an American tourist sarcastically asks Basil Fawlty, "What do you get for living in a climate like this? Green Stamps?"
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Spandex Sidney
12:04 Wed Mar 28
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I also didn't realise that the Green Shield catalogue shops became Argos.
More shit that I don't need to know
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JohnnyL
12:59 Wed Mar 28
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My god this is dull ! Who didn’t know that Green Shield became Argos - East Ham store one of the last ones which springs to mind. Next people won’t know that Iceland was once Bejam !
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arsegrapes
1:06 Wed Mar 28
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Nurse Ratched 11:49 Tue Mar 27
Ha ha just clocked that, would explain....
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Gavros
1:13 Wed Mar 28
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I used to have a little booklet....the old man would bribe the dolly bird at the counter at the garage opposite the civic centre on the barking road....can't remember the company but it was a horse with wings for the logo?
Anyway I had shitload of stamps but could never afford anything.
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Cheezey Bell-End
1:26 Wed Mar 28
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I didn't know about Argos.
I associate Green Shield stamps with going to Tesco in Pimlico when I first arrived in the UK as a kid. They still had clunky cash registers that always ran out of till roll when we got to the front. I fancy a Tom's Yankee bar now.
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ted fenton
9:03 Wed Mar 28
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For some reason some of my old 45 rpm records have these stamps stuck to them.
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lab
9:11 Wed Mar 28
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Your stamp collecting hobby didn't go too well then Ted.
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ted fenton
9:14 Wed Mar 28
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Not really lab ;-)
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gph
10:28 Wed Mar 28
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Did you ever take these records into the store? Did they gently explain that the stamps had to be stuck in albums to be redeemed?
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Grumpster
10:32 Wed Mar 28
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Didn't even know there were Green Shield shops, let alone that they became Argos, so am guessing it was quite a long time ago.
Guessing Luncheon Vouchers are also extinct?
Old man used to be given these when he worked for Standard Chartered Bank before his retirement 30 years ago.
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gph
10:38 Wed Mar 28
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Each stamp had a nominal face-value of one thirtieth of a penny, so maybe you could claim that back from Argos.
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Hammer and Pickle
10:50 Wed Mar 28
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Always got them at the Co-Op down on the Woolwich Rd. I’m talking about the stamps not the paedos.
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Swiss.
11:16 Wed Mar 28
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Errr every heard of loyalty cards you moron?
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GreenStreetPlayer
11:32 Wed Mar 28
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NS 11.48
Yes, a bit moorish weren't they.
Remember certain petrol stations gave away quadrupled stamps and sticking loads of the buggers in the books.
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