Girl Scouts cut cookie selection

Oh I remember the days when they were 50 cents a box…sold a lot of them in the mid 1960s; good memories!!  Sold them myself, door to door!!

I was in girls scouts for two years and while I don't ever recall selling cookies, I had a lot of fun and learned a lot. I would have like to have sold cookies. (I moved away and my new town didn't have a chapter) I think it's a great way for little girls to learn confidence, persuasiveness and how to be outgoing.

Please stop bashing the girls and what they're trying to do!

try and find a positive side!

now having to pick is going to be a whole lot easier!

Everyone needs to relax.  Only 12 of the 112 Girl Scout councils in the country that work with Little Brownie Bakers have chosen to participate in the pilot program that focuses on the six top-selling cookie varieties. No decision has been made by any council or Little Brownie Bakers what cookies will be offered in the future. 

There is also a mistake in the article when it states that cookies are not available for purchase on the web.  Our council does do online sales.

Cookies sold in the 1960's for .50 or the 80's for 2.00, at today's prices would range from 3.46.-4.05 a box.  Seems about what the price is.  Those complaining about the price, don't buy them. 

@Colorado girl, please don't generalize about Council's.  Just because yours may not be functioning, doesn't mean they all are that way.  Have you taken your concerns to the National Level?

@sotired3.  Sounds like a good idea, now if you can just convince everyone else to do the same so that my troop can receive the $800.00 that we did last year, and each girl receive her $50.00 that can be used for camps, uniforms, etc., that would be great.   I remember our school trying the same thing because parents kept complaining about fundraisers and would just rather donate. Unfortunately, they didn't put their money where their mouths were and we were unable to fund the programs we had planned. 

@Lets just be happy.  Yes there is a markup.  In our council, the cost to produce the cookies are .85 a box and they sell for 3.50, a 2.63 markup per box.  Of that 2.37 goes back to the girls in service unit, troop and indivdiual proceeds, and to fund camp and troop programs at a council level.  I guess I can be grateful for a Council who puts the money into the girls and not a council office. 

I sold cookies many years ago when I was a Scout, but would NOT want my child doing it now. (If I had a daughter -only have a son!)

 Last year, I opened my door to a little Girl Scout, and she stepped right into my living room. NO parent with her. I told her she should never walk into a stranger's house, because of the danger involved. Then I bought cookies and made her promise she would never do it again-even if she was invited "in out of the cold."

If they tell these girls nothing else, they should be WELL trained-even scared if necessary-into staying OUT of strangers' homes.