<i>As a top-selling Girl Scout in the San Jacinto Council (Texas), she sold 5,131 boxes of cookies last year. At four dollars a box, she could buy a car, her mother and troop leader Kimberly Welsh, jokes</i><p>They must have a great pricing scheme in their troop or get the cookies for free, because in my daughter's troop that $4 per box only results in $0.65/box of profits (16.25%) given back to the girls. It's really an inefficient way to raise money.<p>On the other hand my son's Cub Scout pack sells overpriced lousy popcorn, but at least Trail's End kicks 66% of the money back to the boys (33% to the pack, 33% to the local council)
They forgot about Sales Secret #6: Sell Girl Scout Cookies Outside Marijuana Dispensaries: "According to her mother, [Danielle] Lei sold 37 more boxes catering to the munchies crowd than what she sold during the same two-hour period outside a Safeway store the next day, proving once again that when it comes to business it’s all about <i>location, location, location</i>." Read the full article "Girl Scout Sells Cookies Outside Medical Marijuana Clinic" in TIME (Feb. 21, 2014) at <a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/21/smart-cookie-girl-scout-sets-up-shop-outside-marijuana-dispensary/#ixzz2uI3WHEET"" rel="nofollow">http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/21/smart-cookie-girl-scout-...</a>