Posted on 03/28/2006 1:38:37 PM PST by brown noiser
It's an American tradition as homespun as Thanksgiving Day turkey and Fourth of July fireworks. But how much you pay for a box of Girl Scout cookies can depend on where your Girl Scout lives.
Every winter, eager Girl Scouts set up their cookie-laden booths in front of supermarkets, and the selling begins.
For buyers, getting a box or two of the Girl Scout-sponsored Thin Mints is about much more than picking up a snack; it's a nostalgic trip down memory lane. For the scouts, selling the cookies is a chance to learn valuable business skills, while making money for troop activities like camping trips and overnight stays at Boston's Museum of Science.
Cost is hardly ever a factor -- until buyers find out that the same box of cookies is selling for less in the next town.
''We hear it all the time," said Renee Brogan, a troop leader from Billerica. On Saturday mornings, at a cookie booth in front of grocery stores, potential customers will comment on the price. ''People will say, 'Oh good. These are only $3.50,' " she said.
In neighboring Bedford and Concord, the same cookies sell for $4 a box.
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$4/box. That's outrageous. Those Girl Scouts are gouging the public. We need sensible cookie price controls.
We go straight to the source and get them for $3.50.
$98 worth this last season.
A windfall tax on these obscene profits, for a start.
Are they made from real Girl Scouts?
these adorable, civic-minded little girls sell cookies, keep some for their local council and kick up the rest to the National Council.
The National Council then dutifully distributes some of their cut to Planned Parenthood.
As for me and my house, we don't buy abortion cookies anymore.
$3.50? $4.00? Both of my daughters are in the GS and they sell them for $3.00/box and fifty cents of that goes into their local troop.
*snicker*
Still got three boxes in the freezer at home!
...well guarded by a Rottweiler and loaded guns.
Wanna hear worse? We bought ours for $3 a box. :P
Heck--they're only $3.00/box here, and I thought that was a rip-off.
My daughter is as well. $4.00 is what they are selling them for which beats my son having to sell frozen dough for 12.00 for baseball fund raisers.
And the money our TROOP made will fund some great activities....
"thin mints to me are like cigarettes to others...Price is irrelevant..I have to have my fix!!.."
You and my wife. ;)
I used to be a "cookie mom." The cookies (Oakland County, MI) still sold for $3, but we learned that they were going for $3.50 in the Detroit council because of -- tada! -- financial mismanagement. They hiked the price of their cookies to pay for their incompetence.
I always swore I'd never sell cookies for more than $3 a box. We moved the next year and my daughter is out of the Girl Scouts so it's no longer an issue.
I'll buy thin mints and the peanut butter patties but I draw the line at $4. Keebler grasshoppers are good enough to ease the Thin Mint addiction and they're available all year long.
Post a picture of the "Samoans" (the best) and link to the diet thread!
Dude, check the nutritional information on the box, particularly serving size and number of servings per box. Multiply to find the number of cookies. Thin Mints and Trefoils give you 40+ per box. Somoas are 12 or 15.
We increased the price to $3.50 this year...people did not even blink an eye.
I don't need to be in a crowd to do the right thing.
Our troop sold 50% more this year with little effort.
I'm sure they did.
And the money our TROOP made will fund some great activities....
And part of the money your troop paid for the cookies will go to not-so-great activities like sticking scissors into the skulls of partially-born little girls and boys.
And none of that money will be my money.
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