2024 Troop Cookie Manager Guide

• Encouraging your Girl Scouts to unleash their creativity—and work on their advertising skills—to make colorful signs and booth decorations that potential customers can’t resist!

• Remind girls to be polite and to have their sales pitch ready for interested customers.

And keep in mind:

• No more than four (4) Girl Scouts and two (2) Adult Volunteers (two are required) should be at a traditional cookie booth. Up to six (6) girls and four (4) adults can be at drive-thru booths. Larger troops can schedule shifts to give all girls (and adult volunteers) the opportunity to participate. Individual girl pop-up, or lemonade stand-style neighborhood cookie booths require one adult for supervision.

• If your Daisies are still learning how to make correct change, help them handle money as needed. But remember that girls make all sales at the booth!

• Changing your cookie booth hours or location? Keep your customers in the loop and update eBudde with the new details.

• Certain locations may be inappropriate for younger Girl Scouts based on the standards of your local community, may negatively impact the cookie program experience for girls, and/or may negatively impact our brand in your community. For additional clarity, girls should not sell in or in front of establishments that they themselves cannot legally patronize. • Additionally, with respect to marijuana dispensaries, GSUSA as been steadfastly combating the unauthorized uses of the Girl Scout trademark by the cannabis community, which has been marketing—without authorization—certain cannabis products under our youth-appealing brand. We are continuing to aggressively fight these unauthorized uses of the Girl Scout brand and hope that volunteers will join Girl Scouts of the USA’s efforts by discouraging cookie booth locations at such locations.

• Offer council-approved credit card payment options. The Digital Cookie app is the preferred credit card processing system. The troop can use the in-hand payment feature on the app when the troop has set up its troop virtual booth.

• Troops are responsible for bringing their own table, health supplies, marketing supplies, secure cash/check container and trash bags.

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