Comments on: Wal-Mart Knocks Off the Girl Scouts

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:51:09 +0000

The Girls Scouts would be better served to buy the Walmart cookies and sell them for $4 and make a better profit, because the real winner is the manufacturer of these $4 boxes who turns around to give 30 cents /box to the girls. Walmart delivers the good to the Girl Scouts’ door for $1 per container.

How much is the cookie maker really making in pure profit off of them?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:29:41 +0000

Interesting debate. My daughter is 9 and this year I feel she is learning something with our cookie sales- making change, polite salesmanship, explaining the product, sales goals, time investments and my personal favorite- how hard do we want to work for 14% commission? I think all leaders should get smart and dump the cookie project. Our council is HUGE and it serves a small area in the midwest. I guess we keep a lot of ladies employed- doing what, I am not sure.

By: M

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:13:15 +0000

I am a Girl Scout Leader and this post is just silly… Each Walmart will donate money to Girl Scout troops if the troop leaders would just ask. Second the little scouts only get .60 cents a box for the cookies they sell the rest goes to council. Girls scouts will not allow the girls to do their own fund raising unless they sell both cookies and nut through them first. Who is really winning here. It’s not those little hard working girls that just want to go to camp. Girl Scouts offers the troops no financial assistance instead they charge outragous prices for uniforms and books that they have to have. They make money off of these Girls every way possible. The Leaders also have to pay for all their trainings. Girl Scouts Is a scam and I am currently a fed up leader. Ok Rant over.

By: Tony Safina

Tony Safina — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:17:48 +0000

I have a couple of suggestions. I hope the right Walmart bigwigs see my ideas and give them some real consideration: 1.) Walmart should do the ethical thing and not sell Great Value fudge mint cookies during Girl Scout cookie season, 2.) Walmart could raise the price of their very delicious and very affordable Great Value cookies and give the Girl Scouts sixty cents a box. Doing so would help the Girl Scouts immensely and the Thin Mint fan would still be able to get fudge mint cookies whenever Girl Scout cookies were not being sold. The Girl Scouts, conceivably, could make so much money with Walmart’s help they might be able to stop having annual cookie sales and have the girls sell something else to get the personal interaction skills they develop selling cookies.

By: Celeste Stratton

Celeste Stratton — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:25:36 +0000

I sometimes fell like girl scout cookies are a little spendy….but its worth it. If i had it my way i would boy-cot Walmart for that……

By: KLTD

KLTD — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:23:45 +0000

I wish it was the girls making the majority of the money from the cookie sales! As it stands now cookies are $4.00 a box and these poor girls get a whole .60 cents a box….. WHO GETS THE REST? The organization… but do they help the troops do anything with that money? NO! Instead they must pay for every individual thing they need or want to do! Its sad for those girls!

By: ana

ana — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:05:18 +0000

I’m so sorry to hear about this happening to you. I totally understand how these events have made Girl Scouts a monster like thing to you and as a leader myself (without a scouting past). I have never turned away any girl, for any reason. I know that it doesn’t help you but while in the area you live/d in it was ok; it’s not ok where I’m at. I would have fought for you and your right to be in a troop. Just like you said it was a “darker side of human nature.” Not of Girl Scouts.

FYI to all… my troop has a booth this year in front of walmart. we didn’t even see to think if it as a competition. We sold out last year of thin mints & tagalongs and will most likely sell out again.

By: Adrian Johnson

Adrian Johnson — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:54:43 +0000

Wal-Mart is planning to market genetically engineered corn– and it won’t be labeled as such. UK and Europe ban GM crops and foods, for prudent reasons. The rip-off “Girl Scout” cookies will probably, this time next year, contain GM ingredients, as most baked-goods in the USA ( including authentic Girl Scout cookies) use corn syrup as sweetener. Studies show that GM corn products cause liver and kidney damage in test animals after only three moths consumption. Three reasons not to buy “Girl Scout” cookies: Wal-mart rip-offs are unhealthy. Real Girl scout cookies are unhealthy. The Girl Scouts no longer have the values they did a generation ago: they push Planned Parenthood and pro-gay, lesbian, and transgendered agendas and are intolerant of the Christian values of those who protest the PC politicization of the Girl Scouts. The alternative? “American Heritage Girls” now have the values the Girl Scouts lost.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:44:54 +0000

Girl Guides have ALWAYS sold those cookies
and should have the credit in BC we sell cookies twice a year
don’t complain about the price!
we use the $$$ for good things
and help people to
Peace!
girl guide RULE

By: Erin B.

Erin B. — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:19:48 +0000

I get the cookies sold at Dollar General. They taste better than GS cookies and they have more cookies in the box for a lower price. In this economy I want more cookies for a lower price.