It's Girl Scout Cookie time. Why don't they sell these cookies on line?

It's Girl Scout Cookie time. Why don't they sell these cookies on line? Seems they would reach a lot more people.

I need my yearly Thin Mint fix and don't want to have to go searching for some one to sell them to me. Asked by *Carla* 9 months ago Similar questions: Girl Scout Cookie time sell cookies line Society > Organizations.

Similar questions: Girl Scout Cookie time sell cookies line.

The whole point is to get the girls involved. They're not a cookie company; they're the Girl Scouts. It's an activity as well as a fundraiser.

They insist that "it is the girl who closes the sale, sets learning and sales goals, and learns the entrepreneurial skills that are part of the program". It's usually not hard to find somebody selling them; they often set up stands outside public places. (I find that grocery stores are particularly common, which is kind of odd as they're technically in competition, but the ludicrous markup on Girl Scout Cookies sort of puts them in a different market.

Besides, it makes the stores look good for participating. ) If you can't find one, though, they'll often list it at:GirlScoutCookies.org org.

I guess I was remembering the days when they came door to door and I didn't have to search them out. *Carla* 9 months ago .

And by the logic that Girl Scouts of the USA uses, they really should still be doing that. The booths in front of stores, often with parents doing a lot of the work, are kind of counter to the point. They probably point to safety concerns, though I'm not aware of any stories of girl scouts actually being kidnaped or injured on cookie rounds.

The booths are, however, probably more profitable. People spend less time at home these days, and you'd have to make multiple rounds at different times of day to hit everybody in the neighborhood. Stand in a booth, with a few boxes of Thin Mints, and you can sell as fast as you can hand out the money.

I'd be surprised if there isn't a direct competitor to Thin Mints on store shelves. It's not like "chocolate covered chocolate-mint cookie" is a trade secret. (For all I know there is such a product, but I usually avoid the cookie aisle.) .

I think it was originally a group exercise in accomplishing a goal. Maybe even entrepreneurial. But in actuality, today, most of those cookies are sold by mom and dad at work where they pressure coworkers into the buying them ad nausiaum.

Parents are afraid to let their kids knock on doors or talk to strangers so I think a website is a better idea.

There was one woman at my job that sold them for her granddaughter. She retired so that ended that and I'm left without my THIN MINTS! It think online would be a better idea too.

While I understand it is a group activity, as a group they could take the orders pack them up and ship them out. Not to mention they would probably reach more people and make more money which is the real reason the troops sell the cookies in the first place. *Carla* 9 months ago .

We sometimes see them sold in front of supermarkets -- a couple of kids, a gaggle of adults. I'm not seeing them yet.

Bite your tongue! It would be a nightmare if I had access to those suckers all the time.

LOL! OMG I feel the same way. They should sell on line but just during Girl Scout cookie month that way we could stock up.

*Carla* 9 months ago .

You should see the grocery stores around here- Big tables stocked high with GS cookies out front all month.

Carla, If you love mint cookies you should try Mystic Mint. MMMMM Also the keebler mint ones come pretty close.

I'm not a big mint fan, so the trouble with most mint cookies are they are too thick for me. I love to put Thin Mints in the freezer and just have one at a time. *Carla* 9 months ago .

Oh, then you will not like the Mystic ones they are double cookies with creme in the middle.

Well that just means more for you. LOL! *Carla* 9 months ago .

I thought I heard a website address when my local radio station ran the GSC ad. Maybe that's just the local group, though.

Think it was probably the address Pam posted.

Yes, I heard about it on TV and rushed to check it out, but it just shows where they will be selling in your area. *Carla* 9 months ago .

You need to fugure out who the local scouting coordinator in your area is, and tell her you need a house call.

I was reading Gandgs comment, about buying the cookies, but not taking them. If anyone wants to support the Scouts but is watching their weight, buy the cookies and donate them to an organization that semds boxes to our soldiers overseas. Imagine how great it would be sitting in the desert, far from home, and get a box that had Girl Scout cookies in it!

That is a great idea TurboB. They actually have information on doing that on the Girl Scout site. *Carla* 9 months ago .

I love scout cookies. Even though they are the worst cookie on the market! They have, literally, not one good for you or healthy thing in them.

They usually sell them outside supermarkets around here. I'm trying to loose weight (don't have much will power) so the last couple of times I gave them some money - didn't take the cookies - and told them to surprise the next couple of people who looked like they could use a box of cookies and give them a box. It made me feel good - and I didn't gain any weight.

That's really nice of you. Good of you and Good for you too. *Carla* 9 months ago .

Actually, here in Texas you can order them on-line and the girls will bring them to your door. Well, at least in the San Antonio area you can - I can't speak for the rest of the state. I'll eat a few Thin Mints for you Carla!

I can't remembe the last time Girl Scouts came door to door. I have seen them alot lately set up with fold out tables in front of the Post Office and Grocery stores. When I was working I remember mothers taking orders for their kids at work.

I must be the only one in the world aparently that never really cared for those Girl Scout cookies but I would buy a couple of boxes anyway to not be a spoiled sport.

I feel that way about all the rest of the cookies, but not the Thin Mints. I guess I just have a soft spot since I started as a Brownie and then was in the Girl Scouts for about 4 years. I remember going door to door selling and back then everyone was so nice and bought cookies.

Then again they were not $4.00 a box back then. *Carla* 9 months ago .

A Brownie and a Girl Scout. I remember earning all those badges and camping out with my troop. I also sold cookies door to door.

Back then you did not have to be afraid of a home owner jerking you into the house, raping you and cutting your body up in little pieces. YIKES!

I forgot all about Blue Birds. I think that those things did happen back then, it's just that you just never heard about them. *Carla* 9 months ago .

I have seen the kids in front of stores. I don't have anyone in my area selling right now. I agree...online would be good.

Is it safe to knock on doors since it is dark when people get home.

That's true Shasha not as many stay at home moms now. *Carla* 9 months ago .

My mother was a Girl Scout Leader in the fifties. I help her girls go door to door selling cookies in Chicago's west side. Like so many opportunities for individuals and groups to generate income, this too is becoming increasingly prohibited.

---------------------------------February 25, 2011 (CBS/AP) VILLA RICA, Ga. - Girl Scouts all over the US have started selling cookies door-to-door, outside of grocery stores and on street corners - little did they know they could possibly be cited for peddling. According to a troup leader, a group of Georgia Girl Scouts thought they were headed to jail when a police officer asked them for their peddler's permit to sell cookies outside of their local strip mall in Villa Rica, 30 miles outside of Atlanta, on Wednesday.

What a dumb ass. Maybe he thought they would bribe him with So-Si-Dos. *Carla* 9 months ago .

Because if they did, we couldn't have our (ex) city council members start ragging on the poor girls for selling cookies within view of automobile drivers. (That li'l incident is still funny. )The real answer is that the Girl Scouts Organization wants the girls learning by doing, and as a (former) educator, I know that is how anyone learns anything.

Run 'em online and someone else handles it all--or write the software to handle it all--and the girls learn nothing.

" "Now that girl scout cookies are $4.00 a box, what are the % breakdown. I heard the girls don't get anymore than before?" "If you like cookies, what is that you enjoy most from a cookie? " "Do you have a favorite Girl Scout cookie?

" "How do I sell something on line" "How many boxes of Girl Scout cookies were you talked into buying this year? I bought four. My sister bought ten.

I don't" "Were you a Girl Scout in the 70's, like me?

Now that girl scout cookies are $4.00 a box, what are the % breakdown. I heard the girls don't get anymore than before?

I bought four. My sister bought ten. I don't.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.