Breaking News: LIVE. Due to a decrease in cookie sales, the Girl Scouts switch to a more aggressive sales campaign. TVN Exclusive

e: real news report, they mixed up the chyron

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    8·
    12 hours ago

    They don’t even go door-to-door anymore, not in my area at least.

    They always just set up camp in the parking lot outside some store … usually a store that also sells cookies, cheaper ones with more variety.

    • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Yeah, I wouldn’t want to send a bunch of girls door to door in America these days.

      Beside the whole free labor issue, it only takes 1 sicko to ruin everything…

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        Yeah they haven’t gone door to door in decades where I live. I can’t remember is they ever did actually.

        Sometimes at work a Girl Scout parent will ask you to buy some. I remember buying cans of nuts though, not cookies. And yeah they set up a little table by the entrance to a grocery store. Some people say they like certain types of their cookies, which they apparently can’t get at the grocery store which also sells many cookies. I don’t like cookies and so I don’t know shit about cookies. But that’s where they sell them.

        • proudblond@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 hours ago

          My brother sold nuts through Boy Scouts, and they now call themselves Scouting America so that girls can be involved, so maybe that’s where the nuts came from? I don’t think I’ve heard of any Girl Scout troop not selling cookies; it’s a big deal and the main fundraising for activities. Unfortunately.