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Girl Scout Cookies Latest Victim of Supply Chain Issues
Your Thin Mints may not be ready. The Samoas and Do-Si-Dos may not be either. The Girl Scout Cookie season is the latest victim of the supply chain issue crippling the world economy.
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Girl Scout Cookie Season Is Here. Here's the Sweet Complete Lineup
This year, the Girl Scouts organization is teaming up with DoorDash to offer on-demand delivery in participating markets nationwide starting in February.
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Girl Scouts Adding New Brownie-Inspired Cookie for 2022 Season
The Girl Scouts just gave us yet another reason to get excited for their upcoming cookie season.
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Adventurefuls, a New Girl Scout Cookie, Debut in 2022
The treat, which takes its chewy-good inspiration from the brownie, will be available on the next cookie line-up.
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Scout Groups See a Decline in Members From Before Pandemic
America’s most iconic youth organizations — the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the USA — have been jolted by unprecedented one-year drops in membership, due partly to the pandemic, and partly to social trends that have been shrinking their ranks for decades.
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Girl Scouts Have Millions of Unsold Cookies as Pandemic Takes a Bite Out of Sales
The Girl Scouts have an unusual problem this year: 15 million boxes of unsold cookies
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Why $3 Million in Unsold Girl Scouts Cookies Are Just Sitting in an Atlanta Warehouse
Local troops had to get creative this year and switch to virtual sales and drive-through pop-up shops.
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Child Labor in Palm Oil Industry Tied to Girl Scout Cookies
An Associated Press investigation has found an army of children toiling beneath a canopy of towering palm oil trees in Indonesia and Malaysia, the main suppliers of the world’s most consumed vegetable oil.
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Child Labor in Palm Oil Industry Tied to Girl Scout Cookies
An Associated Press investigation has found an army of children toiling beneath a canopy of towering palm oil trees in Indonesia and Malaysia, the main suppliers of the world’s most consumed vegetable oil
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Girl Scouts Rebuke Boy Scouts in Escalating Recruitment War
Lawyers for the Girl Scouts say that the century-old organization is now directly competing with the Boy Scouts for female recruits and that it’s not a fair fight
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Girl Scouts Delete Social Media Congratulations to Barrett on Court Seat After Backlash
The Girls Scouts on Wednesday night deleted social media posts congratulating conservative judge Amy Coney Barrett for her controversial appointment to the Supreme Court hours after the posts sparked a wave of angry comments — and some praise.
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Fashion Forward: Girl Scout Uniform Gets Modern Makeover
The Girl Scouts partnered with The Fashion Institute of Technology to release a new collection for the first time in decades. The new uniforms were designed to be comfortable, functional and even include a cell phone pocket for a more modern look.
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New Girl Scout Cookie Flavor Announced for 2021 Season
Girl Scout cookie sales may have hit a snag during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, but the troops are soldiering on to introduce a new cookie next year that tastes (and looks) like a crunchy version of a beloved breakfast staple.
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Girl Scouts Introduces 24 New Badges to Encourage Girls in STEM, Entrepreneurship and Civics
Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast and Girl Scouts of the USA Tuesday announced the introduction of 24 new badges with a focus on encouraging girls to explore male-dominated fields. The new badges include Entrepreneurship (grades K-12), STEM Career Exploration (grades 2-8), Automotive Engineering (grades K-5) and Civics (grades K-12). GSUSA reported that the curriculum undertaken by girls pursuing an…
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Seniors Get Special Deliveries From Riverside County Girl Scouts
Seniors in Riverside County are getting special deliveries from a special group of Girl Scouts and Habitat for Humanity. Tony Shin reports for the NBC4 News on Wednesday, May 20, 2020.
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Wisconsin Man Who Drove Into Girl Scout Troop, Killing 4, Gets 54 Years
A 22-year-old man who plowed his pickup truck into a troop of Girl Scouts picking up trash on the side of a Wisconsin road, killing three girls and one woman, was sentenced Wednesday to 54 years in prison.
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Pasadena Family Sued Over Dog's Alleged Attack on Girl Scout Selling Cookies
A lawsuit was filed against members of a Pasadena family by a girl who was allegedly bitten by their pet dog while selling Girl Scout cookies in 2018. The Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit was filed Thursday against the Augusto Rodrigo Living Trust and an individual, Emily Rodriguez, alleging negligence and strict liability. The suit seeks unspecified damages. The lawsuit…
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Who Steals From the Girl Scouts? Woman Buys Cookies With Two Fake $100 Bills
Girl Scout Sachi Saunt was thrilled when a woman stopped by her cookie stand Sunday outside a Redondo Beach grocery store and said she wanted to buy eight boxes. That would help bring the 14-year-old closer to her sales goal of about 60 boxes. Sachi was happy to accept the $100 bill and give the woman 60 bucks in change,…
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Real Life Cookie Monster Buys Girl Scout Cookies With Phony Cash
Girl Scouts in Redondo Beach are dealing with a real life Cookie Monster. A woman is accused of trading counterfeit cash for cookies. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
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98-Year-Old Girl Scout Has Been Selling Cookies Since 1932
Ronnie Backenstoe has been selling Girl Scout cookies since she was 10 years old. She started in 1932 and hasn’t missed a year since. The energetic 98-year-old recently put on her uniform and was joined by a few members from Troop 1814 at a cookie sales table they set up at Phoebe Berks, the retirement community in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, where Backenstoe lives….