Girl Scout Cookies!

We were driving past our neighborhood grade school (Hope View) on the way to the store today and did a double take at the parking lot. Spread across the entire asphalt in front of the school were thousands of boxes embossed with colors green, red, yellow, purple, orange and blue. Pulling over to check it out, we discovered that the boxes were filled with cases of Girl Scout Cookies -- 3,187 cases X 12 = 38, 244 packages of cookies to be exact!

35 volunteers dressed in blue jeans and jackets were out with clipboards waving traffic as parents and their kid-Scouts from Huntington Harbour SU 303 which includes 45 Girl Scout troops throughout area. Picking up their loads the parents and their kids are assigned to sell cookies Valentine's Day (Feb. 14) to March 8, 2020, at Albertson's at Bolsa Chica & Heil, and Trader Joe's in the Harbour Mall, Ralph's on Warner and Von's  in Marina Village across from Marina High School.

The two volunteer SU leaders in charge of distribution were Misty Cross and Elisabeth Baudisch. This was the third year the distribution took place at Hope View School and they thanked the Ocean View School District for their enthusiastic cooperation in letting the Scouts use the parking lot on a Saturday morning when no soccer or sports events were scheduled.

If you're interested in buying cookies, look for Scouts in front of locals stores or maybe knocking on your door. Here is a cookie finder:  https://www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/cookies.html

Girl Scout Cookie Prices Are Going Up In Some Areas
The cost of a box of cookies this year is $5-6, with each box now costing $1 more. For most varieties, that works out to a 25% increase.

The Girl Scout Cookie Program will run in Orange County from Sunday, January 26 to Sunday, March 8, 2020 with Girl Scouts selling cookies online and door to door in their neighborhoods. Cookie booth sales in front of grocery stores and retail locations begin Friday, February 14. 

Scouts typically receive over 60% of sales per box.

According to Interbake Foods which operates ABC Bakers (abcbakers.com) division contracted by Girl Scouts to produce and private-label the Girl Scout Cookies brand, their company has a comprehensive program to encourage goal setting and marketing so youngsters and teens learn how to succeed in sales. A 10-year-old Girl Scout near Perris, Calif. sold over 4,000 boxes of cookies and won a trip to the cookie factory in Iowa as top-seller! Money raised by scout troops may fund field trips, outings, craft & supplies, and service projects such as care boxes sent to military overseas. If you don’t want cookies, you can donate cash.

COOKIES: According to ABC Bakers they are one of two companies in the U.S. manufacturing Girl Scout Cookies. They are required each year to produce several top-selling items such as Thin Mints and Caramel deLites. All cookies are kosher, and some are vegan and/or gluten-free.