The Goodie Case.
fill your treat box for less
Seven stores, one cozy case. Every store keeps its own house rules for coupons — how many treats may share a box, which ones refuse to sit together, when a little extra spills back to you — and the helpers on this page mind every rule while they work: a box-filler that tries every allowed combination, a run planner that prices your whole list and tells you which store deserves the trip, and an owes-you finder that spots the rare, lovely box whose treats pay you. Each treat carries a freshness score — how sure we are it still works — and a date, and the case remembers which layer let you down at the register.
When the bakery owes you.
The owes-you finder is always peeking: it builds the best box for everything in the case, at every store that stocks it, using only treats above the freshness floor in the case below. When a box's price dips below nothing, the treats pay you. Nearly-free counts too. This is the dream, surfaced the moment it exists.
Notes from the counter.
Fresh notes, written each time you stop by, measured against your last visit: boxes that pay you back, watched treats nearing a known date (guessed dates never earn a note — house policy), and boxes that got cheaper while you were away. Star a treat in the case to watch it.
The favorites board.
The league table of lovely boxes: every treat in the case, boxed at its best store, freshness floor first — then ranked by money saved, then by percentage saved, with sureness breaking ties. Click a row to peek at it in the box-filler.
House rules, store by store.
The very rules every helper on this page minds. Most boxes are some mix of shelf price, store treats, maker treats, and money back — each store's card says what's actually allowed at its counter. Exclusions beat everything, and a treat past its date never goes in a box. Where each rule came from is flagged honestly: a store's own published word beats folklore, and folklore is labeled as folklore.
Look in the case.
Search it, sort it, and set how fresh a treat must be before the helpers may use it. If a treat didn't work at the register, say so — its freshness dips on the spot, the miss is remembered against that layer, and the whole case learns. Treats you add yourself join the same case and the same helpers.
Fill your treat box.
One item, all the care in the world. Fill the box by hand and the checker minds the house rules tap by tap — or press the big button and let the bakery try every allowed combination for you, best box first: biggest savings, then biggest percentage, with sureness breaking ties.
Plan the shopping run.
The whole-list treat. Write your list once — or bring a list and watch it get read, matched, and sorted. The planner boxes every item at one store, minds that store's checkout treats (Dollar General's $5-off-$25 Saturday coupon, Target's Circle 5%), prices the same list everywhere, and then sorts it into per-store piles so you can see exactly what splitting the run buys you. Dollar General's generosity is real and modeled: a treat worth more than its item spills onto the rest of your shopping.
Standing in the aisle?.
Barcode in hand, decision to make: type or paste the number under it and the lookup runs — our own notebook first (every barcode is looked up once, then kept), then Open Food Facts, live — and whatever it turns out to be gets boxed at every store, freshness floor and all, right there in the aisle. On the phone, this is where a camera scan will plug in one day.
Where the treats come from.
Every trail a treat could travel to reach this case, graded honestly — and what each trail is allowed to do today. Nothing arrives uninvited, and nothing phones a store without a sanctioned way in.