Um, anyone notice that this isn't a nationwide thing? Each chapter of Girl Scouts chooses which cookies it sells every year, and it looks like some of them are only choosing six of them. Your local cookie sellers may have different varieties and policies.

And why is this a bad thing? The cookie selling is supposed to be teaching these girls a lesson in business, and an important yet painful business lesson is knowing when to cut your losses. If one of your products isn't selling, you need to consider cutting it, even though there may be a small vocal following of the product.

aeonic wrote:

UsaSatsui wrote: Um, anyone notice that this isn't a nationwide thing? Each chapter of Girl Scouts chooses which cookies it sells every year, and it looks like some of them are only choosing six of them. Your local cookie sellers may have different varieties and policies. It may not be nationwide, but it seems that in large part, the 'core six' of the cookie brands for this year are the ones that're being sold. I already checked my local troop's site and that's what they're going with. I agree with it being a solid way to teach business, but the reason they're doing it is to boost profits, not to avoid incurring losses. My mother-in-law has been a Scout leader for years and she said they virtually always make beaucoup bucks off of the sales. And they'll never get rid of Thin Mints. There'd be blood in the streets.

Boosting profits is good.