Who shrunk the Girl Scout cookies?!?!?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had the exact same thought when I opened my box of Samoas, but I couldn't figure out if it was because I grew bigger or if the cookies shrank.

LMAO me too!

They are smaller, more expensive and don’t taste good either. Very disappointed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cookie mom of 9 years here. Some facts:

Selling cookies is a troop decision. It’s not required at all. The only rule is that a troop cannot do any other fundraisers unless they do both cookies and fall sales. So all the complaints about selling cookies? Talk to your troop leader or change troops. Or start your own.

Troops get .65 (with prizes) or .70 per box (without prizes). A bit more once they hit 1,000 boxes (I think).

Nationwide, there are 2 bakeries: Little Brownie Bakers and ABC. Troops within the GS Council of the Nation’s Capital (GSCNC) are with LBB. There are slight variations in the cookies and the names based on the bakery. For example, elsewhere and Tagalongs are called Peanut Butter Patties.

The price per box is $4 ($5 for S’mores and Toffee-tactic, which are somewhat new). The base price has been $4 since 2010, so I do believe they’ve likely shrunk the boxes to keep the price the same. Again, this is within GSCNC. If you’re local and being charged more, that is against the rules big time.

What are fall sales? My troop parents recently learned about the no other fundraiser rule unless cookies, so I'm being heavily pressured to sign on for cookie mom. But if there's more in the fall, my busy season at work, it's no dice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's March 2019 and because the cost went up a full dollar per box from last year, our family only bought two boxes from the neighbor's girl -- tagolongs and somoas (where before I spent the full $20 on five boxes; one going to the military overseas). Both boxes only contain 15 cookies. In the case of the tagolongs, the amount of empty space to cookie was 40/60 percent. We hate to not support our neighbor's child but this year is has been our last. To charge a dollar more and give less product takes nerve. It is also up to each chapter to set the price of each item which is why the child of my friend in South Jersey sold her boxes for $4 instead of $5 a box (except for the gluten-free cookies, which would be $5 instead of my area's $6 a box. I intend to write GSA and let them know. The tough one is telling the next door neighbor we have to stop supporting them.

I was considering posting exactly this. I’m sorry for the scouts, but GSA has gotten ridiculous with the pricing. They are taking advantage of people’s good will, because better cookies can be purchased for much less elsewhere. Until they return to better value for the price (and they were already overpriced), my GS cookie buying days are sadly over.

This.

[Anonymous]

The new lemon cookies only have 12 per box. For $5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cookie mom of 9 years here. Some facts:

Selling cookies is a troop decision. It’s not required at all. The only rule is that a troop cannot do any other fundraisers unless they do both cookies and fall sales. So all the complaints about selling cookies? Talk to your troop leader or change troops. Or start your own.

Troops get .65 (with prizes) or .70 per box (without prizes). A bit more once they hit 1,000 boxes (I think).

Nationwide, there are 2 bakeries: Little Brownie Bakers and ABC. Troops within the GS Council of the Nation’s Capital (GSCNC) are with LBB. There are slight variations in the cookies and the names based on the bakery. For example, elsewhere and Tagalongs are called Peanut Butter Patties.

The price per box is $4 ($5 for S’mores and Toffee-tactic, which are somewhat new). The base price has been $4 since 2010, so I do believe they’ve likely shrunk the boxes to keep the price the same. Again, this is within GSCNC. If you’re local and being charged more, that is against the rules big time.

What are fall sales? My troop parents recently learned about the no other fundraiser rule unless cookies, so I'm being heavily pressured to sign on for cookie mom. But if there's more in the fall, my busy season at work, it's no dice.

GS Leader here: Fall sale is nuts, candy and magazines. It happens right as the school year gets started. It sucks.
We participate in both fall and cookie so we can have our own fundraisers. For fall, we literally just check the box, I order a can of nuts and a magazine for my family and done. Cookies, our girls are older and usually do pretty well at booth sales but individual sales are down this year. The price hike doesn’t help. Nations Capital was one of the last areas to go to $5.

[Anonymous]

Hate the cookie sales that have been going on since DD was a Daisy as a kindergartner (now in HS). I like what was supposed to happen, but in our troop, it's mostly parents selling to work colleagues. I work with 5 people (3 of whom bought cookies) and DH cannot sell at his company. Our DD is shamed for not selling enough cookies, even though she busts her butt going door to door, when in reality, the other girls just have their parents do it. Will be so glad when she is no longer a girl scoutonly so she won't have to sell the damn cookies!

Will never buy popcorn/support boy scouts of America in any way shape or form. Discriminatory, predatory organization who realized they were headed down the tubes and recently decided to include girls to try and save their sinking ship. No thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hate the cookie sales that have been going on since DD was a Daisy as a kindergartner (now in HS). I like what was supposed to happen, but in our troop, it's mostly parents selling to work colleagues. I work with 5 people (3 of whom bought cookies) and DH cannot sell at his company. Our DD is shamed for not selling enough cookies, even though she busts her butt going door to door, when in reality, the other girls just have their parents do it. Will be so glad when she is no longer a girl scoutonly so she won't have to sell the damn cookies!

Will never buy popcorn/support boy scouts of America in any way shape or form. Discriminatory, predatory organization who realized they were headed down the tubes and recently decided to include girls to try and save their sinking ship. No thank you.

07:16 GS Leader here - the bold is BS and why I hate cookies. My co-leader and I work very hard to stress to the girls that cookies sales are important (please try to sell what you can, attend booths etc) but we don't make a big deal of high/low sales - it is what it is.

Is daughter working on her gold? If she is, I wish her good luck because it is huge honor and it looks great on the college aps.

[Anonymous]

Another GS leader here to a Cadettes troop. We are over selling cookies. You don’t even make that much money - you can earn more money by other fundraisers.

We did fall and cookie sales just to have the ability to do other fundraisers. I did not pressure my kids at all to sell any. Selling cookies really is troop dependent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cookie mom of 9 years here. Some facts:

Selling cookies is a troop decision. It’s not required at all. The only rule is that a troop cannot do any other fundraisers unless they do both cookies and fall sales. So all the complaints about selling cookies? Talk to your troop leader or change troops. Or start your own.

Troops get .65 (with prizes) or .70 per box (without prizes). A bit more once they hit 1,000 boxes (I think).

Nationwide, there are 2 bakeries: Little Brownie Bakers and ABC. Troops within the GS Council of the Nation’s Capital (GSCNC) are with LBB. There are slight variations in the cookies and the names based on the bakery. For example, elsewhere and Tagalongs are called Peanut Butter Patties.

The price per box is $4 ($5 for S’mores and Toffee-tactic, which are somewhat new). The base price has been $4 since 2010, so I do believe they’ve likely shrunk the boxes to keep the price the same. Again, this is within GSCNC. If you’re local and being charged more, that is against the rules big time.

What are fall sales? My troop parents recently learned about the no other fundraiser rule unless cookies, so I'm being heavily pressured to sign on for cookie mom. But if there's more in the fall, my busy season at work, it's no dice.

GS Leader here: Fall sale is nuts, candy and magazines. It happens right as the school year gets started. It sucks.
We participate in both fall and cookie so we can have our own fundraisers. For fall, we literally just check the box, I order a can of nuts and a magazine for my family and done. Cookies, our girls are older and usually do pretty well at booth sales but individual sales are down this year. The price hike doesn’t help. Nations Capital was one of the last areas to go to $5.

You only need to sell one box to run your own fundraiser. So that’s our cookie goal: 1 box.

[Anonymous]

agree, the Smore's cookies were nasty, even my 13 yo boy wouldn't eat them.

[Anonymous]

Breakdown of proceeds:
http://www.gscnc.org/en/cookies/about-girl-scout-cookies/where-cookie-money-goes.html

Where Cookie Money Goes

$0.98 Troop's proceeds (average based on various earning opportunities)

$1.25 Cost of product, transportation, promotion, Service Unit proceeds, rewards, administrative costs and debt. ($2.25 is the related costs for specialty cookies retailing at $6.00 per package)

$2.77 Supports direct service to girls and adults
Financial assistance for girls
Camp programs and eight camp properties
Council-wide girl programs
Training for adult volunteers
Marketing, technological, and web support
Six convenient office locations and staff support for our volunteers and troops

[Anonymous]

I buy a few boxes each year from my GS students. I hadn’t noticed the shrinkage since I usually just give them away. They did go up to $5 this year, but I think that’s savvy on the the GS’s part. After all, the BS sell their little bags of popcorn for $20+ per bag.

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe someone thinks this looks good on college applications.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can’t believe someone thinks this looks good on college applications.

Not selling cookies, the Girl Scout Gold Award. That is an 80 hour individual service project. It’s the GS “Eagle”.

[Anonymous]

GS Leader here, we don't require the girls to sell anything. Most sell cookies because the like to, but we've got some selling 40 boxes and other topping 500. They do okay door to door but much prefer booth sales. They enjoy being together selling.

Yes, prices went up. I will say that this is our third season selling and this is the first time we've seen a price increase. I heard the last increase was a few years before we started too.

No, I'm not thrilled with the # of cookies per package. The number of Lemon Ups is a joke. But this is only a small portion of our year. It helps us fund activities (such as horseback riding, pottery, cooking) and the kids give back to their school.

This year we earn over $1 per box so it really adds up.