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Trying to Sell Girl Scout Cookies in a Pandemic

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Title (Dublin Core)

Trying to Sell Girl Scout Cookies in a Pandemic

Description (Dublin Core)

The one thing people seem to know about Girl Scouts is they sell cookies. What people don't know is that the profit from the cookie sales is how troops pay for their activities and service projects. My daughter has loved selling cookies since she started Girl Scouts in kindergarten. For the past three years, she has sold over 1,000 boxes a year, which is a crazy amount of cookies to sell! Of course, having a mom who has an entire high school student body to sell to, and a dad who has an entire college campus to sell to doesn't hurt. This year, both her parents are working virtually, which means her customer pool has shrunk considerably. The Girl Scouts, knowing how important cookie sales are to the girls, moved the sale online. To try and drum up sales, my daughter created an online sales pitch to send to friends and family, and post on our social media along with her personalized link to sell her cookies. We are all completely shocked that she has managed to sell over 500 boxes through this platform. I am so proud of her, and all our girls who have worked to achieve their two profit goals: first, to buy supplies and fund activities for another troop in our area that is run out of a local rescue mission and serves girls experiencing homelessness, and second, to go horseback riding.

Date (Dublin Core)

January 11, 2021

Creator (Dublin Core)

Kathryn Jue

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Kathryn Jue

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Video
photograph

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Food & Drink
English Community & Community Organizations

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Girl Scout
cookies
virtual
sale
customer
video
troop
homelessness

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Girl Scout
cookies
online
online sale

Collection (Dublin Core)

Children

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

02/13/2021

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

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Date Created (Dublin Core)

02/13/2021

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Covid 19
Children
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on February 13, 2021 by Kathryn Jue using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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