Posted on 03/29/2023 4:10:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
For decades, Girl Scouts has used cookie sales to raise funds and teach scouts about entrepreneurship. This year, thanks to the Raspberry Rally cookie, members got a painful lesson in what can happen when high demand meets limited supply.
The much-hyped Rally, a raspberry-flavored spin on the Thin Mint, was always supposed to be a limited-edition cookie. But interest in it seemed to have taken Girl Scouts leadership by surprise – perhaps because of a new online-only ordering system.
As demand surged, with some cookies even ending up on eBay, in some cases listed for about $40 per box, supply stayed the same because cookie makers couldn't quickly pump out more Rallies. One of the Scouts' manufacturers, ABC Bakers, said it needs lots of lead time to make limited-edition cookies. The other, Little Brownie Bakers, said bad weather caused power outages at a Kentucky plant, contributing to other inventory issues that lead to tight supply. As a result, the Rallies sold out rapidly, leaving scouts and parents to explain the situation to annoyed shoppers even as they tried to make sense of it themselves.
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I stopped buying Girl Scout cookies a long time ago.
They stopped going door-to-door. You have to hunt them down now.
And every year I stop at their little table and say....”As soon as you stop supporting “killing babies” I’ll buy your cookies again.”
Who cares?
I have to hunt the most dangerous game to get my cookies?
Don’t come around here no more.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb0UXPK_O-8
I am a former Girl Scout leader, and I don’t buy them anymore either. They were being infiltrated at the tail end of my years with them. Couldn’t stand it anymore.
Girl Scout cookies suck. They taste like they’ve been sitting in the sun for a week. Not only that the last time I bought some 20 years ago, the mother gave me a half of a five dollar bill. I thought it was folded over until I bought some gas. I went back and the mother swore it was a full five dollar bill. I hate the Girl Scouts.
They are sadly grooming girls and making feminists out of them.
I had fun in girl scouts back in the day.
But I haven’t bought their stuff for decades. Went horribly woke, early on.
Home economics, business administration. Cookie sales.
Girls would have more fun in scouting which is the old BSA, I know it’s probably a verboten subject but I know a few people in the local scouting programs and they love it. They’re doing outdoor activities camping, bonfires 4h stuff, and they’re well supervised and it looks like a positive deal.
Would not be surprised if that’s not the case everywhere but in my local area it’s been a real positive influence but then again these are country kids not city kids.
Had a few of the neighbor kids explain the merit badge program to me and it’s enhanced from when I was in Scouts in the ‘60s, they have some pretty interesting uodated merit badge programs out there that are easily attainable and are informational.
Do I agree with what happened to BSA? Not particularly, but I was pleased that around here it’s turned into a positive experience for the Youth.
“Would you eat the bars at the local Drag Queen story hour?”
My daddy always told me never order food at a strip bar. And he was being very serious about that. I took it to heart when I went off in the military and I never ordered food at a strip bar.
Sounds like wise advice!
Been 20 years since I bought these.
you sound delightful! I hope you don’t get out much.
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