Tops — Buy Box

"Mom, did you scan it yet?" Leo asked, sliding his cereal bowl aside as if it were a distraction from the real work at hand.

The air in the Henderson kitchen smelled of morning toast and the faint, sweet scent of Honey Nut Cheerios. At the head of the table sat Leo, a third-grader with a mission. His eyes weren’t on his breakfast; they were locked onto the back of the cereal box, specifically the small, dotted-line rectangle labeled . buy box tops

For Leo, the shift from "clipping" to "buying and scanning" was a high-tech evolution. He remembered his older sister, Maya, spending Saturday mornings with safety scissors, carefully cutting out those little pink coupons to stick onto collection sheets. Now, the game had changed. The school was aiming for a $1,000 goal this year to buy new gym equipment, and Leo’s class was currently neck-and-neck with the fourth graders in the "Winter Leaderboard" competition. "Mom, did you scan it yet