All posts in: Girl Scout Cookies

01 Mar 2015

Girl Scout Cookies Can Be Yours Year ‘Round

Every year around February and March, the look in my friends’ eyes start to get crazy. Thin Mints and Samoas are all anyone cares about and all anyone is talking about. The sight at a Girl Scout troop is enough to send people sprinting towards them with $20 dollar bills. I know all this because that girl was once me. Uh, I was the one with cookies on the brain – just to clarify – not in a Girl Scout troop. Earlier this week, it was announced that Wicked Cool Toys would be putting out a Girl Scouts Cookie Over – yep! Just like the Easy Bake – so that you can make your own Girl Scout Cookies whenever you feel like eating them. The only downside? You’re going to have to wait for fall, but after that, you can have these cookies whenever you want instead of just once a year.

The oven will include a Thin Mints cookie mix, and the company will offer replacement packets for Trefoils, PB Sandwich, Chocolate Peanut Butter, Coconut Caramel, Chocoalte Chip, Sugar, and Oatmeal. According to the press release, “there’s also a viewing window that lets bakers see the treats they’re making and a warming station to heat and melt delicious cookie coatings and frostings.”

Christmas list – check!

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02 Dec 2014

Girl Scout Cookies via The Internet

The Girl Scouts are getting it in with technology and have announced that this upcoming cookie season, cookies will now be available to purchase online. While frequent buyers are probably really excited to learn about this, a few of us (myself included) are wondering what took so long. I suppose it’s part of what makes the brand so great though. Buyers love knowing that there’s an actual “cookie” season and that we can buy from local troops outside of our neighborhood grocery stores or near our workplaces. This next year, troops will still be doing that, but adding the internet component. Announced on Monday, Digital Cookie is an online platform that will support the selling of the cookies, but will not be an online store. What does that mean exactly?

Well, the Girl Scouts will still need to initiate every sale.

Girl Scouts can reach out to people by email, and only that recipient can access the girl’s profile. If the email is forwarded, the link to the Girl Scout’s profile will be broken, a Girl Scouts representative told Mashable.

The reason behind this is ultimately for the girls’ safety. All sensitive information about the individual Girl Scouts are kept hidden and most of the interactions with the digital platform are overseen by their parents. Through this, the organization is hoping that their Girl Scouts will learn the following skills: goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics. Additionaly, they also have a chance to be exposed to working with apps and test their skills in online marketing.

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22 Feb 2014

Bay Area Girl Scout Wins At Selling Cookies

A young Girl Scout made headlines yesterday when it was discovered that she had set up shop right outside the Green Cross medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco. 13-year-old Danielle Lei sold 117 boxes in one day because of her genius idea! Even though you can browse i49.net and various other online sites for medical marijuana, there are still a lot of people who physically visit a dispensary in their area for access to this alternative treatment.

In recent years, dispensaries are getting increasingly popular because people have heard about all of the benefits it can provide to your health and wellness. And with the introduction of a cannabis track and trace system, authorities are now able to control all of the cannabis that is being produced. Dispensaries are able to sell cannabis products legally because they are registered to do so, but track and trace systems like this are able to see who is selling it illegally. That’s why people tend to get their products from a dispensary, either online through Amuse, to name one example, or physically. In turn, this could mean that more people can take a hint from this girl scout, and sell their cookies outside of a dispensary.

And as the teenager sold 117 boxes quickly, it just proves how popular these types of establishments are. Do we have a future entrepreneur on our hands? Looks like she’s in the right place!

Danielle’s mom, Carol Lei, tells Mashable that she usually has Danielle and her sister, who is also a Girl Scout, “set up shop at various points around San Francisco so they can learn about different environments while earning some cash. Plus, she figured this might be a good way to start a conversation about drugs and how some people use marijuana as medicine while others just get high.” Not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with smoking just to get high. People will buy special equipment, like gravity bongs (https://fatbuddhaglass.com/blogs/fat-buddha-blog/what-is-a-gravity-bong), just to get their fix of the leaf. Anyway, it’s quite possible people were only buying the cookies because they assumed they had a particular, special ingredient in them!

“They learn that they’re not drugged out,” Lei said, according to the East Bay Express‘Legalization Nation blog, which says it reports on “California cannabis culture.” “Many have serious needs, and are just a little different.”

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