The Girl Scouts have an unusual problem this year: 15 million boxes of unsold cookies.
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“Without girls, there is no cookie program. Unfortunately, it took a global pandemic to bring all the problems to the surface,” said Agenia Clark, president and CEO of Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee, a local council. There were other reasons for the declining sales. Some local leaders said they might have sold cookies this year but chose not to because of anGina Verdibello, a troop leader in Jersey City, N.J., said her 21-member troop, which has girls ranging in age from 10 to 15, decided to boycott this year’s cookie program and held a protest at their city hall. Verdibello said she knew of at least a dozen other troops that opted not to sell because of the palm oil issue.
In the end, local councils won’t be held financially responsible for the 12 million boxes that remain at the two bakers. Little Brownie Bakers and ABC Bakers said they were working with the Girl Scouts to sell or donate cookies to places such as food banks and the military. The bakers can’t sell directly to grocers because that might diminish the importance of the annual cookie sales. But they may sell to institutional buyers including prisons.
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