Anonymous wrote: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!

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