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[quote=Anonymous]I spent many years selling GS cookies, then 8 years as a leader. Our selling period was one month. We were allowed to exchange full cartons until the 3rd week. My goal was to enter the 3rd and 4th week with only Thin Mints and Samoas/Carmel deLites. If I had a booth in the last 2 weeks, I would sell out as long as I only had mints and Samoas/CdLs.

My box numbers for the entrance to a busy grocery were at least 100 per entrance for 3 hours. If I had 4 adults and 4 scouts, we would divide up into 2 tables for the 2 entrances and would easily sell 200-250 boxes. If only 1 entrance, 100-125 boxes. This was weekend booths, Fri afternoon, anytime Saturday and Sunday until 3pm.

Outside those hours, sales dropped.

Lowes or Home Depot - same sales on Saturday morning or early afternoon (a 3hr block between 9am and 3pm) and Sunday 12-3pm. One entrance = 100-125 boxes.

Sometimes we got a booth like a drugstore or a discount grocery. We might be lucky to sell 50 boxes over 3 hours.

So if you have a booth that you think will get heavy traffic AND you can sell the first 2 weekends (before people buy from neighbors and co-workers), I would order ~100 boxes for each 3 hour period. Of those, I would get 5 cases Mints (60), 3 cases Samoas/CdL (36) and 1 case Tagalong/PNB Patties (12).

If you can man that booth Fri, Sat and Sun, order 3x that amount, especially if you can do the booth the next weekend. If you end up selling double what you expected on Friday, then call the troop cookie mom on Saturday and order extra.

If you undersell on the first weekend, hopefully you can do the booth the next weekend and finish selling whatever you ordered for the first weekend.

If you think it's a slow location, order half of the above numbers.

Sometimes, within a troop or service unit, you can trade or transfer cartons. If your booths undersell, by the 3rd week, other troops may be desperate for mints and the popular Samoas/Cdl or Tagalongs/PNG Patties. So if you have extra full cartons, you can give them to another seller or troop, and get full credit back (instead of having to take a carton of Trefoils for a carton of mints).

Bottom line, just sell the 3 most popular flavors to minimize the risk of ending up with unsold cookies. Majority mint, then the above recs for the coconut and PNB flavors.[/quote]

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