Anti-Trading Stamp Campaign

Includes press cuttings relating to the anti - trading stamp campaign, many of them written by Alan Sainsbury (Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane) e.g. 'A Case for Legislation', Socialist Commentary,...

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Includes a copy of the 'Trading Stamps Act 1964, Chapter 71', published by Her Majesty's Stationary Office with additional handwritten notes. Also includes two editions of 'The Role of Trading Stamps...

SA/CO/15/2

Includes presss cuttings relating to trading stamps, the Trading Stamps Bill and reactions to the Bill from Alan Sainsbury (Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane) and others. Also includes correspondence...

SA/CO/15/3

Includes reports into trading stamps and consumer reactions to them e.g. 'Survey of Consumer Reactions to Trading Stamps' by the Co-operative Wholesale Society. Also includes a proposal and costing...

SA/CO/15/4

Includes correspondence addressed to the Retail Merchants' Association of Canada and the Consumers Association of Canada. Also includes two copies of a leaflet entitled 'The Social, Economic and...

SA/CO/15/5

Includes press cuttings relating to the boycotting of companies issuing trading stamps e.g. 'My plan for victory: Lord Sainsbury talks about trading stamps boycott', Evening Standard, October 1963. ...

SA/CO/15/6

Includes correspondence relating to the anti-trading stamp campaign from Alan Sainsbury's (Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane) office. Also includes contact reports from meetings of the Multiple Grocers...

SA/CO/15/7

Complaints about trading stamps addressed to Alan Sainsbury (Lord Sainsbury of Drury Lane) with copies of responses.

SA/CO/15/8

Includes publications on the subject of trading stamps: 'The Role of Trading Stamps in Retail Competition' by Christina Fulop, and 'Trading Stamps' by Harvey L. Vredenburg. Also includes Sainsbury's...

SA/CO/15/9

Report prepared for the Sperry and Hutchinson Company investigating the relationship between food prices and trading stamps in several U.S. states and arguing that the introduction of stamp trading...

SA/CO/15/10

Contains publications, surveys, reports and extended articles on the subject of trading stamps e.g. reports by Mather & Crowther Ltd. entitled 'Stamp Trading on the Continent' and 'Stamp Trading in...

SA/CO/15/11

Includes final proofs of Sainsbury's anti-trading stamp press advertisements and examples of newspaper advertisements. Also includes two copies of a Sainsbury's promotional leaflet entitled 'Trading...

SA/CO/15/12

Includes press cuttings relating to trading stamps. Also includes examples of newspaper advertisements both for (e.g. Green Shield) and against (e.g. Waitrose) trading stamps. Contains extracts from...

SA/CO/15/13

Includes eight Mather & Crowther Ltd. files containing costings, correspondence and schedules relating to J. Sainsbury Ltd. anti-trading stamp advertising. Also includes loose Mather & Crowther Ltd....

SA/CO/15/14

Framed cartoon depicting fifteen stamps, each featuring a caricature of a Conservative politician and the slogan, 'TRUE-BLUE TRADING STAMP'. There is a cardboard mount around the cartoon bearing the...

SA/CO/15/15

Full page advertisement explaining Sainsbury's views and intentions with regard to trading stamps.

SA/CO/15/16

Includes images of Anti-trading stamp adverts and literature.

SA/CO/15/17

Cartoon depicting two men standing beside a petrol pump and a sign reading 'We Give Green Stamps'. One of the men has a strip of green trading stamps covering his face. The caption below reads "How...

SA/CO/15/18

Audio recording of radio programme discussing the history of Green Shield Stamps (the largest of the trading stamps schemes). Includes comments from Sir J.D. Sainsbury about the company's campaign...

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