How many cookies for a GS cookie booth?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are you with those cookies!!! I haven’t seen any for sale yet anywhere

Op here. Still ordering… it’s presale now. Cookies come in February.

[Anonymous]

Service Unit Cookie Manager here. I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of these individual booths.

The PP was correct that booths on your own property where you only sell to your neighbors have always been allowed. What is new this year are individual booths with just 1 girl and 1 parent/guardian. It has always been that the minimum for a booth was 2 scouts and 2 adults. Which meant that if only 1 was available, or someone cancelled, the troop could not do the booth. Now they are allowing the 1-on-1 booths. Please note that it must be a parent or guardian, and they must be a background checked, registered member.

These booths still need to be at approved locations, which means your Troop Cookie Manager needs to sign you up for the booth in the same system used for all booths. You cannot just set up a booth at a location of your choosing. And you should not have to supply your own cookies. These are still official booths, so the cookies should come from the troop’s inventory.

So you should not place an initial order for booth cookies. The troop should just include this booth in their calculations when placing their initial order for troop booth cookies, and use the cupboards to resupply the troop inventory when they run out. This is not your responsibility.

Finally, the girls should absolutely be getting credit for boxes sold at all troop booths. Some troops split the boxes for an individual booth among only the girls working that booth, while others split all the boxes sold at all booths at the end proportionate to the number of shifts each girl works because not all locations are equally lucrative through no fault of the girls signed up to work that location. Each troop gets to make that call. But the booth cookies should 100% be included in each girl’s total cookies sold across the season, so if you think your troop is not doing that, I recommend talking to them about this. Hopefully you just misunderstood how they were doing it because I would hope your SUCM would have caught this when reviewing the troop’s sales.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Service Unit Cookie Manager here. I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of these individual booths.

The PP was correct that booths on your own property where you only sell to your neighbors have always been allowed. What is new this year are individual booths with just 1 girl and 1 parent/guardian. It has always been that the minimum for a booth was 2 scouts and 2 adults. Which meant that if only 1 was available, or someone cancelled, the troop could not do the booth. Now they are allowing the 1-on-1 booths. Please note that it must be a parent or guardian, and they must be a background checked, registered member.

These booths still need to be at approved locations, which means your Troop Cookie Manager needs to sign you up for the booth in the same system used for all booths. You cannot just set up a booth at a location of your choosing. And you should not have to supply your own cookies. These are still official booths, so the cookies should come from the troop’s inventory.

So you should not place an initial order for booth cookies. The troop should just include this booth in their calculations when placing their initial order for troop booth cookies, and use the cupboards to resupply the troop inventory when they run out. This is not your responsibility.

Finally, the girls should absolutely be getting credit for boxes sold at all troop booths. Some troops split the boxes for an individual booth among only the girls working that booth, while others split all the boxes sold at all booths at the end proportionate to the number of shifts each girl works because not all locations are equally lucrative through no fault of the girls signed up to work that location. Each troop gets to make that call. But the booth cookies should 100% be included in each girl’s total cookies sold across the season, so if you think your troop is not doing that, I recommend talking to them about this. Hopefully you just misunderstood how they were doing it because I would hope your SUCM would have caught this when reviewing the troop’s sales.

OP said they were in capital area (GSCNC, which covers DC, MoCo, PG, NoVa, and WVa), so these are the correct rules. Also, I posted previously with the rules re donations. It sounds like your daughter is younger (below 6th grade?), so the only "credit" for the cookie sales will be for the prizes, assuming your troop didn't opt out of prizes. But you should absolutely be getting credit for shifts worked at a cookie booth. That usually happens on the back end, when all the booths are done, but is then reflected in the totals for the prizes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Service Unit Cookie Manager here. I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of these individual booths.

The PP was correct that booths on your own property where you only sell to your neighbors have always been allowed. What is new this year are individual booths with just 1 girl and 1 parent/guardian. It has always been that the minimum for a booth was 2 scouts and 2 adults. Which meant that if only 1 was available, or someone cancelled, the troop could not do the booth. Now they are allowing the 1-on-1 booths. Please note that it must be a parent or guardian, and they must be a background checked, registered member.

These booths still need to be at approved locations, which means your Troop Cookie Manager needs to sign you up for the booth in the same system used for all booths. You cannot just set up a booth at a location of your choosing. And you should not have to supply your own cookies. These are still official booths, so the cookies should come from the troop’s inventory.

So you should not place an initial order for booth cookies. The troop should just include this booth in their calculations when placing their initial order for troop booth cookies, and use the cupboards to resupply the troop inventory when they run out. This is not your responsibility.

Finally, the girls should absolutely be getting credit for boxes sold at all troop booths. Some troops split the boxes for an individual booth among only the girls working that booth, while others split all the boxes sold at all booths at the end proportionate to the number of shifts each girl works because not all locations are equally lucrative through no fault of the girls signed up to work that location. Each troop gets to make that call. But the booth cookies should 100% be included in each girl’s total cookies sold across the season, so if you think your troop is not doing that, I recommend talking to them about this. Hopefully you just misunderstood how they were doing it because I would hope your SUCM would have caught this when reviewing the troop’s sales.

OP said they were in capital area (GSCNC, which covers DC, MoCo, PG, NoVa, and WVa), so these are the correct rules. Also, I posted previously with the rules re donations. It sounds like your daughter is younger (below 6th grade?), so the only "credit" for the cookie sales will be for the prizes, assuming your troop didn't opt out of prizes. But you should absolutely be getting credit for shifts worked at a cookie booth. That usually happens on the back end, when all the booths are done, but is then reflected in the totals for the prizes.

+1 I'm a cookie manager. I'm required to account for all boxes at the end of the season. When a booth is over, I put in the boxes sold, click on which girls were there, and it automatically divides and gives credit. If your cookie manager isn't doing that, she's doing it wrong. Also, it's correct that donations aren't allowed, but I don't refuse them. We also inevitably have unsold boxes at the end of the season so I just accept the donation and justify it by assuming it will cover those boxes, which get donated.

[Anonymous]

I think only Thin Mints would be fine. Especially if you like Thin Mints for left overs.

The 3 top sellers represent 70% of total sales. Thin Mints are a sure thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. How about none? No one wants your overpriced, unhealthy cookies. I do hope RFKJr ends these dumb events.

I’m just mad that each year they’re less cookies in a box! I think this year they will be microscopic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Service Unit Cookie Manager here. I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of these individual booths.

The PP was correct that booths on your own property where you only sell to your neighbors have always been allowed. What is new this year are individual booths with just 1 girl and 1 parent/guardian. It has always been that the minimum for a booth was 2 scouts and 2 adults. Which meant that if only 1 was available, or someone cancelled, the troop could not do the booth. Now they are allowing the 1-on-1 booths. Please note that it must be a parent or guardian, and they must be a background checked, registered member.

These booths still need to be at approved locations, which means your Troop Cookie Manager needs to sign you up for the booth in the same system used for all booths. You cannot just set up a booth at a location of your choosing. And you should not have to supply your own cookies. These are still official booths, so the cookies should come from the troop’s inventory.

So you should not place an initial order for booth cookies. The troop should just include this booth in their calculations when placing their initial order for troop booth cookies, and use the cupboards to resupply the troop inventory when they run out. This is not your responsibility.

Finally, the girls should absolutely be getting credit for boxes sold at all troop booths. Some troops split the boxes for an individual booth among only the girls working that booth, while others split all the boxes sold at all booths at the end proportionate to the number of shifts each girl works because not all locations are equally lucrative through no fault of the girls signed up to work that location. Each troop gets to make that call. But the booth cookies should 100% be included in each girl’s total cookies sold across the season, so if you think your troop is not doing that, I recommend talking to them about this. Hopefully you just misunderstood how they were doing it because I would hope your SUCM would have caught this when reviewing the troop’s sales.

OP said they were in capital area (GSCNC, which covers DC, MoCo, PG, NoVa, and WVa), so these are the correct rules. Also, I posted previously with the rules re donations. It sounds like your daughter is younger (below 6th grade?), so the only "credit" for the cookie sales will be for the prizes, assuming your troop didn't opt out of prizes. But you should absolutely be getting credit for shifts worked at a cookie booth. That usually happens on the back end, when all the booths are done, but is then reflected in the totals for the prizes.

Our troop has some girls that opt to not sell. Those parents pay more toward our annual trip. Its not fair to the other families who spend hours at booths raising money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Service Unit Cookie Manager here. I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of these individual booths.

The PP was correct that booths on your own property where you only sell to your neighbors have always been allowed. What is new this year are individual booths with just 1 girl and 1 parent/guardian. It has always been that the minimum for a booth was 2 scouts and 2 adults. Which meant that if only 1 was available, or someone cancelled, the troop could not do the booth. Now they are allowing the 1-on-1 booths. Please note that it must be a parent or guardian, and they must be a background checked, registered member.

These booths still need to be at approved locations, which means your Troop Cookie Manager needs to sign you up for the booth in the same system used for all booths. You cannot just set up a booth at a location of your choosing. And you should not have to supply your own cookies. These are still official booths, so the cookies should come from the troop’s inventory.

So you should not place an initial order for booth cookies. The troop should just include this booth in their calculations when placing their initial order for troop booth cookies, and use the cupboards to resupply the troop inventory when they run out. This is not your responsibility.

Finally, the girls should absolutely be getting credit for boxes sold at all troop booths. Some troops split the boxes for an individual booth among only the girls working that booth, while others split all the boxes sold at all booths at the end proportionate to the number of shifts each girl works because not all locations are equally lucrative through no fault of the girls signed up to work that location. Each troop gets to make that call. But the booth cookies should 100% be included in each girl’s total cookies sold across the season, so if you think your troop is not doing that, I recommend talking to them about this. Hopefully you just misunderstood how they were doing it because I would hope your SUCM would have caught this when reviewing the troop’s sales.

OP said they were in capital area (GSCNC, which covers DC, MoCo, PG, NoVa, and WVa), so these are the correct rules. Also, I posted previously with the rules re donations. It sounds like your daughter is younger (below 6th grade?), so the only "credit" for the cookie sales will be for the prizes, assuming your troop didn't opt out of prizes. But you should absolutely be getting credit for shifts worked at a cookie booth. That usually happens on the back end, when all the booths are done, but is then reflected in the totals for the prizes.

You're right, I should have specified -- I am an SUCM for GSCNC, so the rules I stated above for 1 on 1 booths are the correct ones for OP.

And when I said "credit" I meant that the boxes sold should all be allocated to the total boxes sold for each scout in the troop. In the end, there should be zero boxes in the troop's sales allocation, and the sales across all scouts should add to the total sales for the troop, including individual sales AND all booth sales.

Sounds like the PP and I are in agreement, but felt I needed to clarify just in case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This year Girl Scouts are now allowed to have their own cookie booth. My dd is beyond excited for this (door to door with no actual cookies just doing preorders is awful and no one opens their doors). We have a corner lot and she will sit out with a booth to sell.

Anyone have any ideas of how to make this happen? I have to order and prepay for all of my cookies myself beforehand and I have to eat the losses. Last year I ordered 2 cases of thin mints and a few other favorites for her to go door to door, but it wasn’t near enough.

Would it be weird if she had only thin mints for sale? I worry about getting cookies people don’t want. I wish Girl Scouts would just provide me with a variety. She’d sell hundreds if it was like when I was a girl.

Thin mints, samoas and Tagalongs (peanut butter patties)?

Girl scout cookies are gross and grossly overpriced. I'll stick to Tate's.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ugh. How about none? No one wants your overpriced, unhealthy cookies. I do hope RFKJr ends these dumb events.

DP- I hear you and hate how terrible they are for you, but the girls learn so much from these booths. Money handling, budgeting, marketing, customer service, inventory and more.

Plus they also learn how to legally eff your friends and neighbors! I worked in an office long ago that banned hawking by parents of any of their children's school or scout products for she and the ban also included sign up sheets for cookies, etc

[Anonymous]

Do we know why we have to sell cookies over the holidays now? There couldn’t be a worse time for this from the standpoint of working moms!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are you with those cookies!!! I haven’t seen any for sale yet anywhere

You can find booths here: https://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/how-to-buy-cookies.html?_gl=1*1c60pwb*_ga*MjAzOTIyNTk4Ni4xNzY4MjYxODM4*_ga_5158YSHZTM*czE3NjgyNjE4MzckbzEkZzEkdDE3NjgyNjE4NzEkajI2JGwwJGgw#20009

Or you can also use that link to find a local troop's cookie page and order from them online

[Anonymous]

I am kind of enjoying how no one’s responding to the grinches

So don’t buy cookies ????? No one cares what you do

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Service Unit Cookie Manager here. I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of these individual booths.

The PP was correct that booths on your own property where you only sell to your neighbors have always been allowed. What is new this year are individual booths with just 1 girl and 1 parent/guardian. It has always been that the minimum for a booth was 2 scouts and 2 adults. Which meant that if only 1 was available, or someone cancelled, the troop could not do the booth. Now they are allowing the 1-on-1 booths. Please note that it must be a parent or guardian, and they must be a background checked, registered member.

These booths still need to be at approved locations, which means your Troop Cookie Manager needs to sign you up for the booth in the same system used for all booths. You cannot just set up a booth at a location of your choosing. And you should not have to supply your own cookies. These are still official booths, so the cookies should come from the troop’s inventory.

So you should not place an initial order for booth cookies. The troop should just include this booth in their calculations when placing their initial order for troop booth cookies, and use the cupboards to resupply the troop inventory when they run out. This is not your responsibility.

Finally, the girls should absolutely be getting credit for boxes sold at all troop booths. Some troops split the boxes for an individual booth among only the girls working that booth, while others split all the boxes sold at all booths at the end proportionate to the number of shifts each girl works because not all locations are equally lucrative through no fault of the girls signed up to work that location. Each troop gets to make that call. But the booth cookies should 100% be included in each girl’s total cookies sold across the season, so if you think your troop is not doing that, I recommend talking to them about this. Hopefully you just misunderstood how they were doing it because I would hope your SUCM would have caught this when reviewing the troop’s sales.

OP said they were in capital area (GSCNC, which covers DC, MoCo, PG, NoVa, and WVa), so these are the correct rules. Also, I posted previously with the rules re donations. It sounds like your daughter is younger (below 6th grade?), so the only "credit" for the cookie sales will be for the prizes, assuming your troop didn't opt out of prizes. But you should absolutely be getting credit for shifts worked at a cookie booth. That usually happens on the back end, when all the booths are done, but is then reflected in the totals for the prizes.

Our troop has some girls that opt to not sell. Those parents pay more toward our annual trip. Its not fair to the other families who spend hours at booths raising money.

If you are below 6th grade, that just isn’t allowed and isn’t in keeping with the GS spirit. They are selling to raise money for the council and the troop — not for their own bottom line.

[Anonymous]

Let Goldman Sachs bake their own damn cookies.