Troop Leader Jennifer Powell said the 11 girls in the troop were looking for a central place to store cookies that could be the hub of the troop’s cookie sale.
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Cookie lovers will find that the price of a box of Girl Scout cookies has gone up this year, from $4 to $5. Booth sales will begin on Saturday and the cookie sales will end on March 6.
Girl Scout Cookie season will be here in short order, with sales opening on Monday, Feb 1 and remaining open until Sunday, March 20. About 70 cents of each box sold goes to local scout programs.
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“My number one tip for all my Girl Scout sisters is never to take no for an answer”, she said.
Students from Bethany College’s Business Club will also be helping with Cookie College this year and will be working with the girls, who will be learning business skills they can incorporate into their Cookie Sale Business Plan.
Each year, Troop 9653 purchases any leftover cookies and gives them to a charity to create awareness in the community.
I was grateful this week to read Melanie Haupt’s piece in the Austin Chronicle that sorts out of these questions from the perspective of a feminist mom with a young daughter getting ready to make her first cookie sales.
Girl Scouts will be hitting the streets to sell their classic confections starting February 14. Responsibility for cookie sales naturally falls to the parents, bypassing some of the program’s educational value for the girls. She also said she hopes it will allow the girls to reach potential customers who might not have any scouts in their neighborhoods, potentially increasing sales.
And to little surprise, social media have entered the cookie business.
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“We’ve already had 47 troops get more cookies already”, Taylor said Wednesday. As she walked out of the store with a red stop sign emblazoned with “Buy Cookies Here”, she added in a conspiratorial whisper, “These are the names I grew up with, so for me, I like it”.
