This was my dads token. He also metal detected, but I do not know if he dug it up somewhere, or actually got it at the store. However I do see a scratch on it so he may have dug it. It is the same on both sides.
Kroger token
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crazyjarhead
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That looks brand new 
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seger98
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Boy that's pretty clean.
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I would say that it has never been in the ground.
Red-Coat
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I don't know when the first token was in use. Looks modern. The second one is an advertising piece promoting a series of competitions that Kroger stores ran in 1949. Here's one of their newspaper advertisements (27 October 1949):
