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
Girl Scouts are ramping up their tactics
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
23 Comments
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 19 pts · 46d
That’s their lesser-known offshoot, Girl Special Forces
Dpek@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 46d
Ive heared they are planning for a even more agressive sales campaign
Something about "long range ,high speed air to ground cookie delivery"
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 10 pts · 46d
They don't even go door-to-door anymore, not in my area at least.
They always just set up camp in the parking lot outside some store ... usually a store that also sells cookies, cheaper ones with more variety.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 46d
Probably a safety related change
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 46d
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.world · 2 pts · 46d
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.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 3 pts · 46d
Yay child labor?
deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 46d
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.
proudblond@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 46d
Gross. One thing I heard from my parents as well as generally on the internet is that the Girl Scouts have waaaay less national support from the organization than Scouting America. As in, they have way fewer resources and can’t afford to provide a lot of support for individual troops. So I can’t say I’m surprised. Part of me thinks it’s a gendered issue; part of me thinks it’s because BSA/SA have Mormon support; maybe there are also some other factors. But it has always rubbed me the wrong way that Girl Scouts get shafted.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 46d
Yeah, I wouldn't want to send a bunch of girls door to door in America these days.
Beside the whole free labor issue, it only takes 1 sicko to ruin everything.....
robocall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 46d
I saw a flyer with a QR code on it to order girl scout cookies.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 4 pts · 46d
At this point, I think the girls are kind of unnecessary in their whole cookie-selling business and could probably be replaced by AI agents.
Rivermoonwolf@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 46d
Christ, I'll buy the cookies already. Ya got Thin Mints?
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 46d
Nah, miss me with that. Call me when they turn into Women Scouts and got those Thicc Mints. Mmm...
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 46d
Can confirm. My daughter just got her M4A1 badge and a "broom" badge for learning how to sweep the perimeter.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 46d
robocall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 46d
I support supporting girl scouts and their fundraising, but I don't want high calorie, unhealthy cookies. The cookies make me feel sugar sick.
5wim@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 46d
"aggressive" is missing a "g." News makes spelling mistakes, memers make more, dunno
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 46d
You may be right.it was in a collection of headline mistakes, and this is shitpost, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
5wim@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 46d
You're a real one o7
xav@programming.dev · 3 pts · 46d
Did you see it also misses an "s" ?
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 46d
FPV cookie delivery when?
save_the_humans@leminal.space · 3 pts · 46d
No one wants to be a girl scout anymore. They aren't willing to put on their boots and go door to door with an m16 and threaten people anymore. This ain't no socialist cookie. You have to be willing to do the hard work.