Crumbling economy will make for thinner boxes of Thin Mints

Kevlar281 · #1 01-29-2009, 03:18 PM

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Eating a box of Girl Scout Cookies in one sitting will be a little bit easier this year: The Girl Scouts of the USA confirmed Wednesday that it has reduced the number of cookies per box to save money because of rising transportation and baking costs.

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Tagalongs AKA Peanut Butter Patties only have 14 cookies per box. Best case scenario is that they reduce the amount by 2. At $4.00 per box w/12 cookies that would workout to about .33 a cookie. Freaking ridiculous.

SWTXBelle · #2 01-29-2009, 03:23 PM

What makes it nuts is that the individual troops don't get all that much per box.

RaggedyAnn · #3 01-29-2009, 03:26 PM

My neice is selling magazines for Girl Scouts too.

I seem to remember the boxes having more than 14 cookies the last time I bought them. Did they get smaller before? or am I just remembering incorrectly?

Kevlar281 · #4 01-29-2009, 03:31 PM

I'm pretty sure of the count being 14; I googled for the Tagalong nutritional information and one serving (2 cookies) is 150 calories at 1/7th of the box. Obviously the other cookie flavors will have different counts. But I have always thought that there weren't enough tagalongs per box to begin with.

#5 01-29-2009, 03:43 PM

I posted in the Random thread that a friend of mine sold almost a hundred boxes just on Twitter alone. He did make mention beforehand about the smaller box and less cookies. I still ordered 6 boxes.

Can't wait till March 6th!

cuteASAbug · #6 01-29-2009, 04:01 PM

OTW I'm jealous. My coworker's daughter's troop doesn't start selling until March.

#7 01-29-2009, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by cuteASAbug

OTW I'm jealous. My coworker's daughter's troop doesn't start selling until March.

I thought the troops take pre-orders?

My friend Ryan (the guy who runs the LOST podcasts) decided on a whim to see if any Tweeters would be interested in buying cookies for his daughter's troop. He expected to only sell a few boxes here and there...but he sold almost 50 in one night on Twitter alone and is now up to almost 100. I think he was able to pre-sell a few hundred to his family, friends, and co-workers as well.

I only ordered 6 because 6 gets me a delivery right to my door, lol.

cuteASAbug · #8 01-29-2009, 04:08 PM

I guess not? I don't know. We have a countdown to cookie time at work. Until then, I've just resorted to baking obsessively.

AGDee · #9 01-29-2009, 05:15 PM

Different Girl Scout Councils have different bakers and charge different amounts for their cookies. They even have different cookies sometimes. I don't have my sheet in front of me but I'm pretty sure our Tag-A-Longs are in a box of 16 and our cookies are $3.50 a box. 60 cents of that goes to the troop itself. A large portion goes to the Girl Scout Council.

Thetagirl218 · #10 01-29-2009, 11:40 PM

I already ordered my girl scout cookies from our next door neighbor. I have no clue how many are ina box, but they were 4 bucks a piece...

Still BLUTANG · #11 01-30-2009, 12:32 PM

i will just have to order more boxes.
<--- greedy

BabyPiNK_FL · #12 01-30-2009, 02:37 PM

I will support the girls scouts this year. I think they are so cute and I love to support any cause that's pro-woman.

But @ $3.69 a pop during the rest of the year (when GS cookies are unavailable) I buy some of those Keebler "Grasshoppers". The same taste as Thin Mints, with tons of cookies per package. (I used to be so mad I couldn't get Thin Mints all year round until I realized that I could!) They also make what looks to be other popular GS style flavors as well.

kstar · #13 01-30-2009, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

I will support the girls scouts this year. I think they are so cute and I love to support any cause that's pro-woman.

But @ $3.69 a pop during the rest of the year (when GS cookies are unavailable) I buy some of those Keebler "Grasshoppers". The same taste as Thin Mints, with tons of cookies per package. (I used to be so mad I couldn't get Thin Mints all year round until I realized that I could!) They also make what looks to be other popular GS style flavors as well.

You know that Thin Mints freeze excellently, right? I buy them by the case and throw them in the deep freeze. Plus, having them cold is the best in July.

(and personally I don't think Grasshoppers taste anything like a Thin Mint.)

And AGDee is correct, different Councils sell boxes for different prices, and have different percentages going to the baker/council/troop/individual girl. (And some even offer cookie scholarships to either camp or for college based on sales!)