Why don't the Girl Scouts have normal chocolate chip cookies?

I think they do OK with sales.

I think the goal was to make unique cookies, that you could only get from Girl Scouts. There would be very little incentive for someone to pay 4 bucks for regular old chocolate chip cookies.

Umm..... wrote:

I think they do OK with sales.

I think the goal was to make unique cookies, that you could only get from Girl Scouts. There would be very little incentive for someone to pay 4 bucks for regular old chocolate chip cookies.

fair point.

I bought 'rah rah raisins' which are really awful.

And the mom did all the talking when the adorable little girl foundered in her sales pitch. Isn't the whole point to teach confidence to these kids? And not to take over the sale at the first sign of choking? Boo, mom.

All in all not a great transaction, although they did get an extra $4 out of me for charity.

agip wrote:

And the mom did all the talking when the adorable little girl foundered in her sales pitch. Isn't the whole point to teach confidence to these kids? And not to take over the sale at the first sign of choking? Boo, mom.

All in all not a great transaction, although they did get an extra $4 out of me for charity.

Let's not blame Girls Scouts for that. I think that's endemic to parents these days (and I'm guilty myself at times).

I do agree the point is to sell different cookies. Who's going to buy prepackaged, months-old chocolate chip cookies?

agip wrote:

Seriously. Their offerings are carp.

everyone loves cookies.

it's not hard to find ones people actually want.

the scouts would sell more if people knew they wouldn't be saddled with those dried out cookie carcasses.

They sell cookies that taste like fish? Yuck!

My guess is that they sell ones that are unique.

Last time I checked these cookies had high amounts of TRANS FAT. Not sure if that has changed since, but I would be very careful eating those.

XFIT BRO THE REAL ONE 1 wrote:

Last time I checked these cookies had high amounts of TRANS FAT. Not sure if that has changed since, but I would be very careful eating those.

the rah rah raisins have 0 transfat

agip wrote:

And the mom did all the talking when the adorable little girl foundered in her sales pitch. Isn't the whole point to teach confidence to these kids? And not to take over the sale at the first sign of choking? Boo, mom.

All in all not a great transaction, although they did get an extra $4 out of me for charity.

Try teaching a kid to do a sales pitch sometime. It's not easy for them or you.

Also, the reason the girl scouts don't have a chocolate chip cookie is they are expensive to make relative to whatever flavored flour paste they are selling, including "chocolate" coated cookies.