Girl scouts cookies
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Anonymous
| Do you buy them from friends and neighbors kids? Or it just annoys you? |
Anonymous
| We actually like thin mints and Tagalongs, so we buy a few boxes every year. |
Anonymous
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I love them. Sadly nobody goes door to door anymore. We seek them out. I would purchase a few boxes from any girl who asked. When my nieces were little I bought from all of them. I buy from anybody who sends me the cookie emails these days. I think too many parents are afraid to have their kids ask.
-former Girl Scout leader |
Anonymous
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I like buying from the kids at a table.
Not sure, prob a little annoyed when parents bring order forms to work...ie doing all the work... |
Anonymous
| Girls haven't been encouraged to sell door to door in quite a few years. Now they do cookie booths and send emails to friends and families. |
Anonymous
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As a Girl Scout dad, I sell at work but I always have my daughter give me a message to put in the email about why she's selling and what she gets out of Girl Scouts. If people say they want cookies I send them the link to her site which has another message from her. I want her doing all much selling as possible.
But I'll also say people definitely want them. A friend passed along my daughter's link to one of her friends and that person bought 20 boxes from a girl she's never met. |
Anonymous
| I love them! I buy a ton from the girls at DS’s school and will usually buy a few more from anyone at a booth. Got a super sweet thank you note last year too! |
Anonymous
| I want to try to new raspberry ones but read you can only order them?? |
Anonymous
Yep, and the shipping is pretty expensive and at least for our council the direct shipped cookies don't actually go on sale until the end of February. It's all very annoying. |
Anonymous
Individual families/troops may have made that decision, especially during COVID, but lots of them still go door to door. My kid sold 140 boxes in a couple of hours last weekend going around the neighborhood. It's harder to do door to door because people aren't home as much (the way they were when I was a kid in the 80s). She leaves a door hanger with the online ordering info if people aren't home (but people are way more likely to order when it's in person). She also emails family and repeat buyers, and her troop does booths as well (that was the thing they stopped during COVID, but are going back to it this year). I'm not allowed to sell them at work (fed employee) and we're hardly in the office anyway so she doesn't have that option. |
Anonymous
| They are terrible and full of mystery ingredients. Why anyone likes them is beyond me. |
Anonymous
Yeah--the bakery that supplies this area is having supply chain issues. It's frustrating because now the online sales aren't synced--delivery can order now but shipping can't. Cookie booths will be in February if people are looking for them. |
Anonymous
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I will happily buy directly from the girls.
Totally glad my daughter’s outgrown GS, but cookie sales were a very good experience for my shy kid. She learned to speak up, and totaling sales in her head was helpful, too. |
Anonymous
Unbeknownst to me, a colleague solicited some sales on my daughter’s behalf, so I had my daughter do thank yous for everyone who ordered when she delivered them. They’re still displayed at a lot of desks, which is pretty cute. 😊 |
Anonymous
| No, I don’t buy from anyone. The cookie pressure was one of the things I disliked the most when my daughter was in scouts. They are so overpriced. |