This is not a rant but it could be. My daughter is in the Brownies and I have been her cookie pusher for the last month. We got the cookies last week. My question is: are the boxes of cookies a lot smaller now? Specifically does any one know how big the boxes used to be? Depending on the cookie, the boxes are now 7-10 oz. They are still great but $3 for a 7 ounce box of cookies?
Have you priced crackers in the grocery store recently? ‘Triscuits’ or ‘Wheat thins’ frequently cost over $7.00 a pound.
I suspect that the demand for GS cookies permits a similar high differential between manufacturing and distribution costs and the final price of the product.
They always seemed small and overpriced to me. That never stops me from buying them. 
I remember selling them for my daughter at the office, people just roll over and beg for them.
That is not the reason for the thread. I just couldn’t help but gripe about the price. I really want to know if the boxes have been shrinking or if it was my imagination.
Likewise.
The cookies are designed to be fundraisers, so the markup is much more than what similar cookies would be in stores (ever notice the price of the candy your local Little League team is selling?).
The current boxes are approximately the same size and fill weight and fill count as they have been since the mid 80’s for the same types of cookies. However, many of the newer flavors of cookies are less to a box that many of the older flavors. Also, the shape/sizes of the boxes have been streamlined so that the cases are of more similar sizes which makes it easier to mix and match boxes in cases and cases in piles when sorting out orders.
Cite please? Have you been involved since then or did you come by this knowledge some other way?
I’m hit by GS cookiepushers from across the country (it’s a big family). I’ve noticed that the same cookies here (Southwest) are prices for a dollar or more a box in Northern California.
The pricing may have to do with what the local market will bear.
I have been in Girl Scouts for 14 of the last 21 years and got care packages including Girl Scout Cookies in the 7 year gap of my membership. My sister and I used to have mom and dad buy us different boxes and we would split each type 50/50 so I knew exactly how many cookies were in each box each year. Then Girl Scouts started publishing the cookie counts, probably after some people noticed that there were only 15 Tag-a-longs in a box, but there were “approx. 40” Thin Mints in a box. Now the nutritional facts and ingredient statements are available at the time you place an order…how times have changed!
I was once told, but can’t prove, that the companies that make the cookies charge the same price per box, but the council sets the pricing and the difference in price goes to the troop and council in a predetermined amount.
I’m confused. Isn’t Girl Scout Cookie season in February or something? We just had a GS candy sale a few weeks back, but they were completely different items. I bought Mint Meltaways–yummy.
My sister is a cookie mom for her daughter’s troop, and that’s what she told me.
Two years ago, cookies from her daughter’s troop (in a different part of the state) were 50 cents cheaper than the ones purchased from our local troops because our council was taking a larger profit at the time. Last year, her council caught up with the other folks in the state.
Different councils sell at different times. We sell in January-ish to assure unmelted cookies since February in Wisconsin is likely to melt chocolate in a heartbeat…or something.
Thanks, I’ll assume you are correct and my memory is faulty since you are the subject matter expert. However big the boxes are, they don’t last long around here.
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