Girl Scouts cookie markup

March 17, 2019, 10:24 AM

gpbst3

I know Im probably the asshole but...

Girl Scouts were selling cookies at the local grocery store for $5 a box. I know they are only $4 so a 25% markup. I guess supply and demand and its a free market but it just bothered me.

Flame on. Im ready for it.

March 17, 2019, 10:40 AM

flesheatingvirus

I agree. Go for the Keebler versions. It’s not like the Scouts see a big chunk of that profits anyway.

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March 17, 2019, 10:59 AM

zoom6zoom

Yeah, not that I buy cookies at all anymore, but the keebler are a fraction of the price and taste better.
Even if I were buying cookies, I wouldn't be supporting the current agenda of the GSA. It you want to support local troops, give them cash. They only get like thirty cents from each box of cookies.

March 17, 2019, 11:01 AM

Paten

I'm not buying Girl Scout cookies to save money. I'll buy a couple of boxes every year that I see them outside the grocery store. Of course, they only charge $4 for the regular cookie boxes and $6 for the gluten free boxes here, but I figure an extra $2 a year wouldn't break me if they asked for it.

If you buy more than 2 boxes a year though, that's your own fault.

March 17, 2019, 11:25 AM

Gustofer

$4 here and I won't say how many I bought, but the freezer is sufficiently stocked with Samoas.

And yes, you can get them cheaper in the stores, but some good lessons are taught to the girls in the whole process and that's a good thing.

March 17, 2019, 11:25 AM

maxwayne

I bought from the scouts at a scout pancake breakfast and they were $5.00.

March 17, 2019, 12:25 PM

gpbst3

I tried the Keebler brand and they were inferior.

I love me some Somoas and usually buy 4-5 boxes a year off family but they no longer are in the scouts. I need to find a new dealer.

March 17, 2019, 01:40 PM

sigmonkey

I buy them from the Scouts that come to my door, not the "table gauntlet" outside the stores.

The girls coming door to door are learning interaction skills with strangers in a "business/customer" model, and having to walk, correctly take the order, complete the paperwork and order fulfillment in the delievery/folowup to complete the transaction and then report/turn in their package.

All of that, while seeming "small potatoes", is going to be foundational and "remembered" their lives.

Compare that to the group of kids, schlepped to the stores, and barley making eye contact as they mumble as you walk out the door, and if they catch one, sell a few boxes and hand the money to "mom", I find it hard to believe the experience is the same.

March 17, 2019, 01:54 PM

LS1 GTO

quote:
Originally posted by sigmonkey:
I buy them from the Scouts that come to my door, not the "table gauntlet" outside the stores.

The girls coming door to door are learning interaction skills with strangers in a "business/customer" model, and having to walk, correctly take the order, complete the paperwork and order fulfillment in the delievery/folowup to complete the transaction and then report/turn in their package.

All of that, while seeming "small potatoes", is going to be foundational and "remembered" their lives.

Compare that to the group of kids, schlepped to the stores, and barley making eye contact as they mumble as you walk out the door, and if they catch one, sell a few boxes and hand the money to "mom", I find it hard to believe the experience is the same.

Worse to me are the parents selling them at work.

With regards to the $5 - that extra dollar means you don't need to hand out as much change and the 6 year-old can quickly figured out how much seven boxes of Thin Mints cost.

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March 17, 2019, 02:13 PM

jimmy123x

quote:
Originally posted by gpbst3:
I know Im probably the asshole but...

Girl Scouts were selling cookies at the local grocery store for $5 a box. I know they are only $4 so a 25% markup. I guess supply and demand and its a free market but it just bothered me.

Flame on. Im ready for it.

My niece is a girl scout. Some of the cookies ARE $5 a box, and other varieties are $4 a box. My niece sold the $650 in cookies needed to go to a weekend camping that the Scouts put on.

March 17, 2019, 06:02 PM

RHINOWSO

quote:
Originally posted by gpbst3:
I know Im probably the asshole but...

Girl Scouts were selling cookies at the local grocery store for $5 a box. I know they are only $4 so a 25% markup. I guess supply and demand and its a free market but it just bothered me.

Flame on. Im ready for it.

How do you feel knowing that that box costs no more than $1 to make?

March 17, 2019, 06:25 PM

SevenPlusOne

They're not even made out of real Girl Scouts....

March 17, 2019, 06:32 PM

rscalzo

Just bought four boxes while voting last week. $5 a box. No idea if some varieties were cheaper.

I never eat them. Used to send them to one of my patrol officers who was deployed. Now they are all back so they are dropped off at a friend's gunshop.

March 17, 2019, 07:12 PM

vthoky

Five bucks a box? Send in the Thin Mints, brother!

I'll buy them from the door-to-door mafia, I'll buy them from the table-tenders at the grocery store, I'll buy them from the moms at work.

And when I get to feeling really froggy about how little the troop actually pockets on the sale, I'll make a donation directly to the troop.

Win-win.

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Edit: One of several from the Meme thread:

March 17, 2019, 07:30 PM

ChuckWall

Try Aldi's version. Pretty close.

March 17, 2019, 07:32 PM

ZSMICHAEL

Look it beats the crappy popcorn the Boy Scouts sell.

March 17, 2019, 07:41 PM

PorterN

I had $2 in cash on me at work the ither day so i borrowed $2 from a buddy and we split a box of thin mints. Thats all ill buy this year.

March 17, 2019, 07:54 PM

P250UA5

$5/box at my house (N Houston) for Thin Mints, $4/box for them at my parent's house ~1hr away (Bryan, for those Houston familiar).

March 17, 2019, 09:04 PM

a1abdj

This is how they sell them around here:

I stopped buying them at random after the 2016 election. There was nothing but Trump bashing going on at their national Facebook page with no effort made to correct or remove it. I figured those women were the leaders who "taught" these girls, and as such, I wasn't going to fund that education. I will still buy them from friends and family.

March 17, 2019, 09:09 PM

Jager

I'd buy about two cases a year. One to slowly consume and one to give away to torture others to buy more. I was a cookie crack dealer. The first box is free...

Never again.

They have taken up an agenda.

Bye.