{"id":17946,"date":"2024-02-11T13:25:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T19:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=17946"},"modified":"2024-02-12T07:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T13:09:25","slug":"girl-scout-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=17946","title":{"rendered":"Girl Scout Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Girl Scout Cookies are cookies sold by Girl Scouts in the United States to raise funds to support Girl Scout councils and individual troops. The cookies are widely popular and are commonly sold by going door-to-door, online, through school or town fundraisers, or at “cookie booths” set up at storefronts. The program is intended to both raise money and improve the financial literacy of girls. During an average selling season (usually January through April), more than one million girls sell over 200 million packages of cookies and raise over $800 million<\/strong><\/em>. The first known sale of cookies by Girl Scouts was in 1917.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each Girl Scout council operates its own cookie sale. Approximately 70% of the proceeds stay in the local Girl Scout council to support Girl Scouting in that area,<\/em><\/strong> including a portion, approximately 15%, that goes directly to the group selling the cookies. The profits are divided by a formula, with local troops receiving about 10-15% of the retail price, the council more than 50%, and the manufacturer the remainder.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Something about this Wikipedia caption cracks me up. Is it to help future space aliens distinguish between the girls, the woman, and the cookies?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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One of the many, many benefits of living in Texas is that Girl Scout Cookies become available in late January. For the rest of the world, you’ll have to wait until Feb. 16.
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From the Girl Scout Cookie FAQ<\/a>:
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Late stage capitalism: this is an example of Cookie Arbitrage<\/strong>. How low-rent! Ripping off the Girl Scouts!
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WLBOTT Wonders:<\/strong> Were these boxes of cookies intended to be single-serving?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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