girl scout cookies

This spring, Girl Scout Cookies are once again selling in one of the hottest retail formats: pop-up stores. These are temporary stores designed to drum up buzz for a retailer (popularized by stores like Target). They appear for a limited time -- say, Girl Scout cookie season -- and just as...

As the annual Girl Scout Cookie sales get into full swing, the group said it is getting complaints over its Lemon Chalet Cremes. The Girl Scouts said that the initial problems with the cookies this year is nothing like what they saw last year when a refund was offered to consumers who bought from...

Each year as sure as the first signs of spring, Girl Scouts gather, troops are rallied and cookie season begins anew -- this year, however, a down economy is changing the way the girls in green go about their $714 million-dollar-business. The biggest news: not all of the cookies will be returning....

Virtually every industry has its tales of woe about sales drops during the worst of the recession. There were exceptions, however; we discovered the recession didn't slow down sales of these seven items. Girl Scout Cookies It's Girl Scout cookie time again, your chance to order those Tagalongs,...

If you're a Girl Scout Cookie fan and thought the Lemon Chalet Creme cookies you ate were a bit off -- no problem with your taste buds. They were real lemons. As in duds. The maker of the Girl Scout cookie line, Kellogg's Little Brownie Bakers, issued a statement saying some customers had...

The Girl Scouts have sold cookies since their early years, bringing in $700 million a year. But sales slipped about 1% last year, prompting the group to look for new ways to get its message across. The result? They've posted a video on YouTube called "What can a cookie do?" which has attracted about 24,000 hits.

If you couldn't resist buying a box or two of Thin Mints or Samoas (both are favorites in my house) from a Girl Scout recently, don't feel bad. These pint-sized dynamos have honed sales skills that rival those of some of the most savvy adult professionals. If fact, some Scouts sell thousands of...

It's hard to say no to a pint-sized cookie peddler, sweetly asking: "Would you like to buy a box of Girl Scout cookies?" But in an age where you're watching every penny, it can be equally hard to cough up between $3.50 and $4 for a box of 15 cookies -- even if those Samoas are perhaps the best...

I would love to hear of a business or organization that is not struggling under this tough economy. No such luck, and one of my favorite non-profits is in the news today for its money woes. The Girls Scouts of the USA rely on their annual cookie sales to bring in a nice chunk of money, and this...

The Girls Scouts of the U.S.A. have announced that because of the economy, fewer cookies will be packaged into boxes of Thin Mints, Do-si-dos, and Tagalongs. And it gets worse. The Lemon Chalet Creme cookies are getting smaller, too. Perhaps sensing the rumblings of a national riot, a...