2023 Troop Cookie Manager Guide

IN-PERSON BOOTH IDEAS

Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri is happy to continue our Council-scheduled booth partnerships hosting traditional in-person booths. Council partners should not be contacted by individual troops to schedule. Even if certain partners or locations are not available, our council has larger agreements in place with these partners. Council partners include: Schnucks, Dierbergs, Walmart, Sam’s Club, Walgreens, Lowe’s, Field’s Foods, GNC, Kaldi’s Coffee, Upper Limits, Magic House, and JoAnn Fabrics and Crafts. Troops are encouraged to contact locations other than those scheduled by Council and request approval to hold a cookie booth. Ask families in your troop if they have connections in the community that could provide a booth location. • Consider a donation booth instead of a product booth. These booths are solely focused on customers supporting Project Thank You—a great way for girls to show the community how important service is to them while minimizing touch points in customer transactions. These booths do not require inventory and Girl Scouts only take payment for the donated boxes of cookies.

• Advertise your troop’s booth on social media and let customers know to expect you. This should only be done if the booth is in a public location. Never share residential addresses publicly.

When finding or signing up for a Cookie Booth, check out the location on Google Maps and consider the needs of your troop: do you have first time booth sellers who might need a quieter booth spot or goal getters who would thrive in a high-traffic area.

POP UP NEIGHBORHOOD COOKIE BOOTHS • Having trouble finding a booth location that works for you? Think outside the box—try having a pop-up booth at your church or during an event in your neighborhood

COOKIE BOOTH PICKUP Digital Cookie offers the option for troops to allow customers to order and pay for cookies in advance and pickup cookies at the booth. Find step-by-step instructions for this option in the appendix.

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