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Girl Scouts Say They Have 15 Million Boxes Of Unsold Cookies Due To The Pandemic

<p>Lemme get them Samosas off y’all hands&excl; Y’all know every year folks love stocking up on the infamous Girl Scout cookies&period; But last year&comma; the pandemic slowed down their mission&comma; and Girl Scouts have millions of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;girl&plus;scouts&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post">unsold boxes<&sol;a> just sitting up collecting dust&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to <a class&equals;"notranslate" tabindex&equals;"0" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;cnn&sol;">&commat;cnn<&sol;a>&comma; they have 15 million boxes of unsold cookies&comma; and about 12 million boxes never left the warehouse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to a statement released to CNN&comma; the organization stated&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It&&num;8217&semi;s exceedingly rare to have significant excess inventory but the pandemic greatly impacted our cookie program&comma; despite demand for cookies remaining strong&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Girl Scouts said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Usually about 200 million boxes are sold each year&comma; according to the organization&period; At this time&comma; the current season&&num;8217&semi;s numbers have not been calculated&comma; but at the time of this typing they haven&&num;8217&semi;t been sold&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The proceeds from each purchase  &&num;8220&semi;stay local with the troop and its council to power essential leadership programming throughout the year&comma; so we did everything we could to mitigate those losses to recoup lost revenue in addition to helping the bakers sell through their inventory&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As you know&comma; the cookies are usually sold outside of grocery stores and public parks&period; Due to the pandemic&comma; members of the Girls Scouts organization was unable to do so because of closures nationwide&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At this time&comma; the boxes are not available for sale&period; But if you&&num;8217&semi;re interested&comma; &&num;8220&semi;anyone interested can<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;digitalcookie&period;girlscouts&period;org&sol;scout&sol;girlscouts2021" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"> buy cookies that will be donated<&sol;a> to first responders&comma; food banks and &&num;8220&semi;other worthy causes&comma;&&num;8221&semi; according to<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnn&period;com"> CNN<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Roomies&comma; how do y&&num;8217&semi;all feel about this&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; center&semi;&semi;"> <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-container" data-ver&equals;"1&period;3&period;10" data-post&lowbar;id&equals;"76338" data-show&lowbar;count&equals;"true" data-enable&lowbar;share&equals;"onclick" data-behavior&equals;"regular" data-animation&equals;"true" data-share&lowbar;url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;girl-scouts-say-they-have-15-million-boxes-of-unsold-cookies-due-to-the-pandemic&sol;" data-secure&equals;"0d81ef196e"> <div class&equals;"wpra-call-to-action" style&equals;"color&colon; 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