Girl Scout Cookie sales in the internet era

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This has been my daughter’s first year as a Brownie scout, so we’re currently experiencing first-hand the annual selling of the famous Girl Scout Cookies. She hit up the usual suspects (friends, neighbors, and family members) and we also spent time at our troop’s cookie booth the other weekend in front of a local grocery store.

During our troop’s cookie sale kick-off meeting back in mid-Feburary, we were specifically told that selling on the internet was a no-no. That apparently didn’t stop one 8-year old (and her dad) in North Carolina from setting up an online ordering system and raking in the sales, along with complaints from other cookie-selling families in the region. Newsweek has an interesting article on the story that also explores why the Girl Scouts haven’t made the transition to online sales, much like Avon did. My favorite quote from the article:

Michelle Tompkins, a spokeswoman, says, “Girl Scouts of the USA is not shunning the Internet … though we still have to figure out how to do this.”

The internet has been around for a while … maybe it’s finally time to figure it out.

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