The Girl Scouts of the USA says it has 15 million boxes of unsold cookies in surplus this year, with about 12 million boxes that never even left the baking warehouses
But this year, the organization is faced with an unusual problem: Millions of boxes of cookies remain unsold, all because of the Covid-19 pandemic.The Girl Scouts of the USA has has 15 million boxes of unsold cookies in surplus this year, with about 12 million boxes that never even left the baking warehouses, the organization said in a statement to CNN.
Girl Scouts of Central Texas, for example, told CNN they did not experience an overstock of boxes.Girl Scouts of the USA said that 100% of the proceeds from each and every cookie purchase"stay local with the troop and its council to power essential leadership programming throughout the year, so we did everything we could to mitigate those losses to recoup lost revenue in addition to helping the bakers sell through their inventory.
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