Posted on 10/06/2023 6:54:21 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
The Girl Scouts are discontinuing a popular cookie just a year after its debut sparked a frenzy.
Raspberry Rally won’t be sold this upcoming cookie-sales season, which runs January to April 2024, Girl Scouts of the USA has announced. The Rallies was introduced last year as a “sister” cookie to the iconic Thin Mints, a crisp mint-flavored cookie encased in chocolate, but in the Raspberry Rally, the cookie was replaced with a bright pink berry-flavored one. It was dipped in the same chocolate coating as its sibling.
The Rallies were the Girl Scouts’ first-ever cookie to be exclusively sold online, a strategy aimed at “enhancing girls’ e-commerce sales and entrepreneurial skills,” the organization announced last year.
But demand created an online shopping spree with some chapters reporting they sold out of the $5 boxes in less than a day. Resellers offered the Rallies on eBay for as much as $30 per box. The organization didn’t disclose how many boxes they produced.
“While Raspberry Rally was extremely popular last year, we are taking a pause this season to prioritize supplying our classic varieties,” the Girl Scouts of the USA said in a statement to CNN.
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How many funds from local troop money earning are “ kicked up to corporate”?
Please enlighten us. I’ve experienced differently in the 17 years I’ve been doing this.
Please share the name.
My mother started a GS troop to give me a good experience.
I did the same for my DD.
Our kids, our choices. Its a volunteer led position.
Local Miami media is running this story like it is an important headline.
Laughable.
We quit buying from GSA when it went woke.
I don’t know. But how is corporate funded? The money has to come from somewhere.
National GSUSA makes money from the branding.
Not from the cookie sales.
For a box of cookies, about half goes to the bakers, about 25% goes to local Council that runs camps and programs, a bit less than 20% to the selling troop / mine earns $.85 per $5 box sold.
Nothing goes direct to National.
This info is available at the selling table.
This time of year Mallomars are back in stores. My local ShopRite has th m on sale for $3.99. That’s where my money is going.
Funny, but GS were viewed as scandalously improper women by many back in 1912, when it all started. The role of the Founder herself as a well-raised lady from respected Savannah/Chicago families, and the support of the upper classes including the First Lady as honorary head, helped overcome the gender barriers to female leadership and self-sufficiency.
Thanks! I was trying to remember why we stopped buying them! Haven’t bought any in decades, now.
People complain about ‘Dollar Stores’ and junk from China, but seriously, I LOVE mine (Dollar Tree.) Plenty of bargains and it’s easy enough to READ A LABEL if you want to avoid China Junk.
My favorite type of Girl Scout cookies have always been their chocolate covered peanut butter cookies... they were called “tagalongs” but I think that their name changes every few years. We used to buy a bunch every year from the neighbor girl and others selling them outside of supermarkets. But the neighbor girl grew up and I haven't seen any girl scouts selling cookies outside of a supermarket recently.
I did find a product at Walmart that I enjoy a little more than the genuine Girl Scout product. The covered cookie part is chocolate instead of vanilla and they are absolutely delicious. They also cost less about a third of what we paid the girl scouts most recently. These are the “Great Value Fudge-Covered Peanut Butter-Filled Cookies, 9.5 oz” which are a $1.77 where we live and online.
They were sold out at every Walmart that we visited a month ago, so we ordered them online. Unfortunately, they were delivered on a warm day and were melted, but they still tasted fine once we got them cooled back down... The plastic trays they are in, actually do have a purpose other than making you think that you are getting more cookies than you really are.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/11303914
You have to buy $30 of Walmart goods to get free shipping to your house, but if you order online you can often pickup items that they haven't bothered to put on the shelves yet and there is no shipping fee. Where we are at, they bring your order out to the car with almost no delay after you “check in” with the “Walmart App” on your phone.
Of course, Walmart does not have their online features perfected after more than ten years, so there can still be complications. I have a love/hate relationship with them. One of our daughters worked for them for years and they were very helpful to her.
I was a ‘Rangerette’ which was the girl scout-type organization of the Lutheran church. the boys (Ick!) were ‘Rangers.’ ;)
Not sure if they’re still around, but our mission was more spreading ‘The Word’ and community projects, not just raising money for ourselves.
‘Mystic Mints’ are Da Bomb! (Recipe included)
https://verbatim.blogs.com/verbatim/2014/12/memories-of-mystic-mints.html
Speaking of cheaper cookies, Aldi chocolate sandwich cookies are a dead ringer for Oreos.
I don’t buy anything from pro-death, LGBTQ supporting and indoctrinating organizations.
Same here...and I was a Girl Scout for ten years!! Before crazy hit.
Good for you...in certain locales I imagine you can avoid the woke aspects...but it can’t be easy.
You’re one of those who taught them to laugh...
And you know this how, exactly?
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