The Girl Scout cookie crumbled this year. Here’s what happened

CNN ^ | Mar 25, 2023 | Danielle Wiener-Bronner

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For decades, Girl Scouts has used cookie sales to raise funds and teach scouts about entrepreneurship. This year, thanks to the Raspberry Rally cookie, members got a painful lesson in what can happen when high demand meets limited supply.

The much-hyped Rally, a raspberry-flavored spin on the Thin Mint, was always supposed to be a limited-edition cookie. But interest in it seemed to have taken Girl Scouts leadership by surprise — perhaps because of a new online-only ordering system.

As demand surged, with some cookies even ending up on eBay, in some cases listed for about $40 per box, supply stayed the same because cookie makers couldn’t quickly pump out more Rallies. One of the Scouts’ manufacturers, ABC Bakers, said it needs lots of lead time to make limited-edition cookies. The other, Little Brownie Bakers, said bad weather caused power outages at a Kentucky plant, contributing to other inventory issues that lead to tight supply.

As a result, the Rallies sold out rapidly, leaving scouts and parents to explain the situation to annoyed shoppers even as they tried to make sense of it themselves.

Girl Scouts USA seemed surprised by the level of interest in the Raspberry Rally. - Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service/Getty Images For young scouts, having to tell customers there are no Rallies available “is a particularly frustrating transaction,” scout parent Betsy Everett told CNN. “When people ask for the new cookie, we tell them the situation and then they don’t want to buy anything. It’s disappointing for the girls.”

Some parents have been frustrated not only by the shortages, but by what they say is piecemeal communication from Girl Scouts USA. And after years of Covid-related disruptions, their own patience is wearing thin.

[Mean Daddy]

I kind of figured for someone to get a package that they weren’t expecting from someone they didn’t know full of goodies prolly made their day. Always put a note in with my connection to them thru a family member and a note thanking them for their service.

[pfflier]

If I ever got one from you or anyone else out there...Thank you. You are right, it sure made a difference along with mail call, for morale. (my first care packages were in 1972 long before the internet) but still welcomed later during Desert Storm.

Oreos were the best, nothing melted and the old rectangular boxes kept them from crumbling.

[Mean Daddy]

You’re welcome but mine were sent in the last 20-30 years. I was told some people used new, white athletic socks for cushion for the cookies and because they always seemed short of good socks.

[fhillary2]

Aldi carries 3 or 4 knockoffs as well!

[Tom Tetroxide]

It’s great to see you are supporting the lesbians and feminazis who are doing a great job indoctrinating our girls with their ideology!

[Fury]

LOL!

[napscoordinator]

Thank you! I’ll definitely stop by and try them out. I go regularly. Never saw them, but never looked either.

[Hot Tabasco]

All the years I purchased their cookies at work, I never once saw a girl scout.........Are they real?

[Allegra]

However with the girl scouts going anti-American I stopped buying.

Same here. I always enjoyed my Thin Mints and Samoas, but they’re not good enough for me to support destroying kids with woke garbage.

[gitmo]

I dropped my son off to pick up some cookies at a Girl Scout cookie table while I parked the car. It took him over a half hour to get the cookies. No line, just some cute Girl Scouts.

[Allegra]

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