The Beacon Hill Times reports Troop 65321 was the top-selling cookie-selling troop in the entire state.
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Yes, I'll take one million
By Youuuuuuuuuuuuk
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 10:31am
Yes, I'll take one million billion cookies to Louisburg Square, sirrah. The butler will meet you in the alley to take delivery. [adjusts monocle]
Girl scout cookies are a $1
By anon
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 10:47am
Girl scout cookies are a $1 billion business. It's bigger than Oreo.
Cookies
By Bugs Bunny
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 11:35am
That's a lot of cookies the parents sold for them.
Nice to see parents involved
By formerlyTheSoBo...
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 11:12am
Nice to see parents involved in their kids activities and lives. Creates fewer degenerates in our great city.
We can only hope all neighborhoods can be like Beacon Hill.
Nice canard you got there, buddy
By KellyJMF
Mon, 04/30/2018 - 10:10am
The girls work really hard on this stuff. They're the ones going out in the cold standing in front of grocery stores and hauling wagons door to door. They're the ones emailing non-local family members to get online orders. Do the parents help? Of course they do. But it's the girls driving the business rather than just asking their parents to pony up a check to pay for everything.
How much is the cut ...
By Lee
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 1:44pm
.... for the cookie suppliers?
Tube truth
By massmarrier
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 1:59pm
There's high and low finance and way and more ways to figure it, according to people who have researched it. From what I can see, for the majority of cookies that cost $4 a box, the baker gets about $1. The $3 goes to the Council (a district or county group of troops), From that, they givvy up the net per their agreement with their troops. It seems to be between 50¢ and 70¢, most leaning toward to lower end.
In Eastern MA, at least
By Miss M
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 6:44pm
Cookies are $5 a box and the cut for the troop is $.90. The rest is split between the bakery and the Girl Scouts of Eastern MA & GSUSA.
(Source: My daughter's troop.)
Minor correction
By KellyJMF
Mon, 04/30/2018 - 10:14am
GSUSA doesn't get any of the cookie proceeds. Those stay within the individual councils (which pick which baker to work with and set the price and the troop cut). GSUSA gets all the licensing money (like the partnership with Dunkin Donuts and the branded candy bars).
Otherwise, yes, the troops in Girl Scouts of Eastern Mass get .90 per box unless they opt out of the incentives (which include store/program credits for girls who sell 100+ boxes).
The elusive Silver Spoon
By Douglas
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 3:56pm
The elusive Silver Spoon badge
It's not fair
By StillFromDorchester
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 5:16pm
They should set aside 5 percent of the profits for low income Girl Scout Cookie sellers.
Quoted from the article:
By Miss M
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 6:46pm
"Troop 65321 is donating part its cookie proceeds to Massachusetts First Lady Lauren Baker’s Wonderfund, supporting local children in the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families"
Whaterfund?
By anonamizzle
Sun, 04/29/2018 - 3:27pm
I work for DCF and also am a foster parent. What's this fund? Does she plan on telling workers and youths how to access it? Or does she just dole out funds to the kids she chooses when she wants to play savior?
Google works!
By anon
Mon, 04/30/2018 - 10:38am
http://www.wonderfundma.org/
Homeless Girl Scout Cookie Sales
By Greg Conyngham
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 8:45pm
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Girl-Scout-T...
Low Income GS Cookie sellers earn their own profits
By KellyJMF
Mon, 04/30/2018 - 10:24am
So some of the money from cookies goes to the local council. Our council turns around and supports girls in need with financial assistance with dues and program fees and camp scholarships, including some for girls in foster care.
Also, girls are selling these to the public, not just within their family and friends circle. My own troop has been 100% self sustaining since the girls were in 2nd grade (they're now in high school). Through their efforts selling cookies, we've paid for their uniforms, badges and insignia, annual dues, and trips and activities, including going surfing down the Cape, bike trips, camping, rope climbing, service projects, and tons of crafts.
Good for them!
By E
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 9:50pm
I always liked the peanut butter cookies. Yum!
Why not just donate the $$
By anon
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 11:30pm
Why not just donate the $$ directly to the troops. Not a fan of these girls and their mothers mostly acting as dales people for the girllnscouts organization. What do they do with the money? From what i understand there are people making lots if $$ off the cookie sales - and thse girls are free labor.
How's about learning why they do it
By Waquiot
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 1:19pm
It's not just a transaction thing. They are learning life skills. They are learning entrepreneurship. Here, read what they are learning.
In my day we worked to earn things. Now there are people who think they there is no value in working to earn things. Sad.
Girls
By Bugs Bunny
Sat, 04/28/2018 - 5:30pm
Amen to that. I don't buy those cookies, but I'll give a buck each to the Girl Scout who asked me to buy. It gives them candy or hot chocolate money.
Payoffs
By SamWack
Fri, 04/27/2018 - 11:34pm
This is how payoffs to our elected officials are now made. Girl Scout cookies are the ultimate untraceable currency. They're better than bitcoin.
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