How big is the cookie business? For the rest of the cookie market, Girl Scout cookie season is an inevitable fact of life. Because each regional council sets its own prices, the cost of a box of cookies depends on the realities of your local market. The proceeds are split between the council — which funds things like summer camps and adult volunteer trainings , as well as coveted cookie-selling prizes — and the particular troop, where it goes toward activities and projects.
Making these decisions as a group is an important part of the process. Managing inventory is important. The logistics of ordering cookie stock — taking preorders versus buying cookies in advance to have ready on the spot — is a science and an art.
There are door-to-door sales. There are booth sales, where troops set up cookie pop-ups at well-traversed locations.
Would you like to find a booth near you? The Girl Scouts have an app for that. There are sales online. Troops buy the stock they sell — if a girl has boxes to sell, she or her family bought those boxes — which means it is key to actually sell them.
What to do with unsold cookies is a popular topic on parental message boards. I knew which houses were easy sells and which were tougher. With all due respect: yes. Would it be nice to have a group organization for girls that did not lean quite so heavily on building character by selling things on behalf of a major corporation? Also yes. At the same time, the cookie program is excellent preparation for the world that actually exists. It is hard to argue.
Of course, all this hinges on one important detail: The girls have to be the ones actually doing the selling. Except that if you are a person who works in an office with adults, you know this is not always how it goes. The Girl Scouts, for their part, do not condone this practice.
And to access it, a potential customer needs a digital invitation from a participating Girl Scout, which means you need a connection to an actual Girl Scout, perhaps because you are related to her. Girl Scouts are not supposed to pass out their cookie URL to strangers, for safety reasons. There is one tiny loophole in the system: Amazon. But while you can technically buy them online, without interacting with a single girl, the Girl Scouts of the USA would strongly prefer you do not.
Girl Scout cookies do have detractors. People love Girl Scout cookies. Part of that is the taste; they are eminently edible, because they are cookies. Part of that is the nostalgia. They remind you of childhood, how you once were a Girl Scout, or knew a Girl Scout, or ate cookies. They are simple and pure. They are also pleasantly limited.
To Goodbody, a big part of the appeal is civic-minded: People want to support the girls themselves. Girl Scout cookies are not the best kind of cookies. Want more stories from The Goods by Vox? Sign up for our newsletter here. Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all.
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