Penny Candy · Regional Classics · Sweet American Stories
Step Up to the Counter.
There’s Something Sweet Behind the Glass.
Old-fashioned candy counters were part shop, part neighborhood ritual and part treasure hunt.
The Candy Counter brings that feeling back with vintage sweets, regional American candy makers, Prohibition-era stories and gifts made to feel like discovering the good stuff tucked behind the counter.
More Than a Bag of Candy
The Counter Was Always
Part of the Fun.
The candy mattered. So did choosing it, seeing it lined up behind the glass and walking away with something you had been thinking about all day.
That is the idea behind this department: candy with a sense of place, a maker behind it and enough story to turn a handful of sweets into a real gift.
Choose Your Candy Story
What’s Waiting
Behind the Counter?
Some candy stories begin with the neighborhood candy shop. Others belong to a regional maker. And some are best discovered after someone points you toward the stash they were not advertising out front.
The Neighborhood Candy Shop
The Vintage Candy Counter
Wrapped sweets, familiar names and the pleasure of picking a little of this and a little of that. This is candy as memory, discovery and small reward.
Shop Vintage Candy Stories →Nashville · Standard Candy
The Regional Candy Maker
Some American candies are inseparable from the place that made them famous. Goo Goo Cluster brings a regional candy story with more than a century of history behind it.
Meet the Maker →The Sweet Side of Prohibition
Sugarfoot’s Backroom Stash
When the front door says one thing and the back room has something better, the candy counter becomes part of the story. Sugarfoot turns vintage sweets into our own little piece of contraband.
Find Sugarfoot’s Stash →From a Little Stash to the Grand Tour
Shop the
Candy Counter.
Every published gift assigned to the Candy Counter is pulled here automatically and organized by its Gift Set Level.
01 · Little Stories
Little Stories
Simple pairings and small curated discoveries for birthdays, hosts, teachers, thank-yous and just-because moments.
05 · Grand Story Crates
Grand Story Crates
The fullest Gift With a Story experience — a grand crate filled with makers, traditions, discoveries and stories.
Sugarfoot’s Sweet Contraband
A generous stash of vintage American candy guided by the fictional keeper of our sweetest stories.
The Grand Contraband Crate
The flagship Gift With a Story experience: a grand tour through American makers, regional traditions and counter culture.
From the Counter
America Has Always Had
a Sweet Tooth.
Candy counters turned that sweet tooth into a ritual.
You chose from what was behind the glass, learned which candy was worth saving for, and remembered the place that sold it. Regional makers turned certain sweets into hometown landmarks. Neighborhood shops made the counter itself part of growing up.
Read More Candy StoriesThe fun was not only eating the candy. It was choosing what made it into the bag.
A good candy can become part of a city, a road trip or a family tradition.
Not every Prohibition story belongs behind a bar. Some of the best ones belong behind a candy counter.
Keep the Counter Open
More Ways to Give
the Candy Story.
12 Days at the Candy Counter
Twelve days of sweets, candy-counter nostalgia and small holiday discoveries.
Explore 12 Days → THE FULL HOLIDAY COUNTER24 Days at the Vintage Candy Counter
A longer trip behind the glass with twenty-four days of vintage candy and American sweet-shop stories.
Explore 24 Days → FROM THE NEXT COUNTER OVERThe Soda Fountain
Old-fashioned soda and candy have always shared a neighborhood. Continue the story at the fountain.
Visit the Soda Fountain → THE GRAND TOURThe Grand Contraband Crate
Candy joins coffee, tea, pantry goods and other stories in the largest Gift With a Story experience.
Take the Grand Tour →
Their Sweets.
Your Story.
The candy brings back the counter. The personalized story explains why you wanted to send them something sweet.
Made Personal
Choose the Candy.
Tell Us the Reason.
The maker histories explain what is inside. Your personalized story explains the gift.
Choose the gift and any available candy selections. Then tell us who it is for, who it is from and why you are sending it. We’ll bring the sweets, the stories and the personalized occasion together.
Step Up to the Candy Counter
Choose Their
Sweet Story.
Vintage sweets. Regional classics. A backroom stash with a little mischief in it. Start with the candy story that sounds most like them.