Where can I locate Girl Scout cookies? Someone at work is selling them, but they are taking orders, and will deliver the end of February or the beginning of March. She’s not there the days I work so I can’t ask her. Is there a way to put in your zip code to see if girl scouts are selling in front of grocery stores, or malls? I tried the girl scout website already, and they will only take your e-mail and send you info, but I tried that last year, and never got a reponse. I want those delicious Samoas now…and Thin Mints…Mmmm!
You can find someone selling them at nearly every supermarket.
Maybe in your area, but presumably not where the OP lives or the question would not have been brought here.
You’ll be able to find them at the grocery stores after the cookies are delivered at the end of February or so. The local troops don’t have any cookies yet, they’re just taking pre-orders.
(troop cookie manager checking in):
If you follow the link that Belowjob2.0 posted, you’ll eventually find a cookie locator page. Here’s the link that services my council (National Capital area).
http://cookielocator.littlebrownie.com/
I plugged in my own ZIP code and found a bunch of sites (which meshes with the records I have from the booth selection meeting).
Depending on where you are, different regions take orders at different times of the year. Sounds like your area is on much the same schedule as ours. Our area is getting deliveries this week (in fact I’ll be loading up my car on Wednesday morning).
Hey, if you’re in the DC metro area, PM me :).
FWIW, booth sales in our area don’t start until the weekend of the 19th. Not all stores have them (e.g. the Safeway won’t have them until March). We lost Wal-Mart a couple of years ago, too (grrrrr - that was always our best spot).
I’m hungry for girl scoring cookies, but in our area they were sold in the fall. There are no online sales, are there?
Perhaps you could leave a note on her desk or somewhere? It seems like this is a Plan Z, though.
:: looks at link ::
Wow, are your Girl Guide/Girl Scout cookies ever different than ours! And you have croc-o-chous! (That’s my private name for the coconut/caramel/chocolate/wafer types that you seem to call samoas in the link. It was actually the French name of a particular brand of cookie is no longer made.)
They often set up a table at Lowes (home improvement store) here.
If you’re near Montgomery AL my daughter will gladly sell you some!
But are they made from real Girl Scouts?
I live in NJ and work in PA. Co-workers are selling live boxes (i.e., not order forms) of cookies. Some of these co-workers live in the NJ suburbs of Philadelphia; others in the PA suburbs of Philadelphia. My niece, who lives on the Jersey Shore, called and took an order* from me. Her cookies are coming in in mid-March… a full 6 weeks since they went on sale in my office / this area.
*read: got lucky and spoke to me instead of my wife. 10 boxes vs. 2 boxes.
Whatever you do, don’t get the cookies that arrive ahead of schedule!
Yep - even in the US the two major bakers (Little Brownie and ABC bakers) have a slightly different lineup. Samoas are called Caramel Delights in ABC-land and have slightly different shapes (hex vs round) and Tagalongs are called Peanut Butter Patties. I think Thin Mints may have a slightly altered shape as well. Everyone sells Trefoils and Do-si-Dos tho I don’t recall if they have the same name/shape. The other three vary and typically they swaps out a variety every year or so.
Oh my - I hadn’t read that thread before! I’m actually not surprised - the Scouting organization is VERY focused on this as their major fundraiser and is very tetchy about quality control - nobody is gonna buy cookies at 3-4 bucks a pop if they know they risk getting a bad product.
I can tell you what happened, with near certainty, however. See, when the troop gets cookies to sell, we are absolutely on the hook for paying for them. Any that we don’t sell, we cannot return - we MUST still pay Council for them. If it’s managed carefully enough, your troop will have few if any boxes left over. I tend to run the sales extremely tightly, for example; I’d rather make numerous restocking trips than risk having a lot left over. Anyway - either that Scout, or her troop, overordered. And honestly she should be slapped down a bit.
I too have (mistakenly) tried eating cookies that were a few months old and they were… unpleasant. They’re fine if they’ve been frozen.
This is also why GSUSA explicitly forbids online sales - it’s a quality control issue. Their reputation could be damaged by someone receiving a product that was damaged in shipping.
Or, just maybe, that was an unknown fact to him/her.
Seems to me he/she was quite aware of the possibility.
Hey, have it your way.
Our local dollar stores have Girlscout Cookie knockoffs which are surprisingly good and inexpensive, for those months when the real thing is not available. I like the simulation Thin Mints.