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

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      9 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
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        4 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.

        • deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          23 minutes ago

          My mom is an accountant, used to do auditing for the state. The leader of my girl scout troop asked her to be the treasurer of the troop one year. Turn out, the leader had been embezzling our cookie money, like, the whole time. It wasn’t even well covered-up. Took my mom all of two seconds to figure it out.