Girl Scout cookies

[Anonymous]

Is it just me or are they charging more for less cookies?

[Anonymous]

Teaching girls how to rip you off.

[Anonymous]

I stopped buying them several years ago - I'm not paying over $6 for a box of mediocre cookies. $4 would be fine. $5 would be my limit.

[Anonymous]

The National Capital Council raised its prices this year to $5 a box (there are two varieties that are $6). My mom said the booths by her (Philly suburbs) are still charging $4.

[Anonymous]

Whatever. I will still buy them.

[Anonymous]

I just got my 2 boxes today. I paid $5 for 12 little cookies. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Just consider it mostly about it being a donation to an organization that empowers girls. I prefer other cookie brands, especially home made ones, but I just buy them as a donation. You can also buy them to donate. The online store has the "troop to troop" option where you pay for them, and the GS will donate them to the military.

[Anonymous]

I heard they use lower quality ingredients these days too.

[Anonymous]

The new lemon ones are an especially small box, but decently tasty. I still prefer savannah smiles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just consider it mostly about it being a donation to an organization that empowers girls. I prefer other cookie brands, especially home made ones, but I just buy them as a donation. You can also buy them to donate. The online store has the "troop to troop" option where you pay for them, and the GS will donate them to the military.

This.

[Anonymous]

Out of the $5, how much goes to the individual troop, how icy to Girl Scouts overall organization, and how much to the cookie company?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Out of the $5, how much goes to the individual troop, how icy to Girl Scouts overall organization, and how much to the cookie company?

When it was $4/box, the troop got something like $0.63 per box. The rest goes to council. I don’t know how much went to the manufacturer.

[Anonymous]

Exactly. A tiny portion goes to the troop. Donate $5 directly to the troop. And the troop to troop donations are a joke. I heard of some local base that has more gs cookies than they know what to do with. It is a scheme to make money for the organization.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Out of the $5, how much goes to the individual troop, how icy to Girl Scouts overall organization, and how much to the cookie company?

My daughter's troop will get $1.05 a box based on meeting certain targets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Out of the $5, how much goes to the individual troop, how icy to Girl Scouts overall organization, and how much to the cookie company?

When it was $4/box, the troop got something like $0.63 per box. The rest goes to council. I don’t know how much went to the manufacturer.

Just over $2.50 goes to the manufacturer.