COOKIES & MORE

 

Cookie Sale Program - Cookie Booth Sales

Did you know?

  • Troops that have cookie booth sales are almost twice as likely to accomplish their goals than troops that don’t.
  • Cookie booth sales can help your troop reach more customers, and give girls more opportunities to practice their people skills.
  • Whether your cookie booth is at a grocery store, in a mall, at a community event, or mobile like a Cookie Van Caravan, there are steps to ensure that your troop’s efforts really pay off.
  • Always let your Service Unit Cookie Manager (SUCM), know about your upcoming booth sale: location, date, time so she/he can notify the Council to have it advertised on the Cookie Locator website and given to call-in customers.
  • If you plan to conduct a cookie booth sale outside of your own Community, before you schedule it, please contact your Community Product Sales Coordintor.

5 Easy Steps to a Successful Booth Sale!

Step 1:  Pick a busy place and time!  Contact your Community Product Sales Coordinatorfor suggestions about a fantastic location for your troop’s booth sale.

Step 2:  Stock Up!  Check out plenty of cookies from your local Cookie Cupboard, and take orders to deliver later if you run out.  Remember, full cases of cookies may be returned to the Cookie Cupboard, after your booth sale, within one business day of checking them out.  Cookies from your Initial Order may not be returned.

Step 3:  Advertise!  It pays to advertise!  Involve the girls in brainstorming ways to attract customers to your cookie booth.  Place posters announcing your upcoming booth sale around town in places seen by many people (always ask permission to place each poster).  Contact your local town papers and any company newsletters you know of to let them know the date, time and location of your booth sale.  Decorate your cookie booth with posters designed to look like road signs, goal charts, photos of group activities, and balloons.  Wear Cookie Costumes (available for check out from Council Service Centers). 

Step 4:  Recruit Adult Help!  It is important to have enough adults present to insure the safety of the girls.  Check Safety Activity Checkpoints for the standards and procedures that apply to booth sales ( day trip away from the meeting place:  permission slips, transportation, adult coverage, first aider, etc.)

Step 5:  Be Prepared!  Practice sales techniques with the girls.  Be sure everyone knows the detailed information about each of the cookie varieties, or can show nutritional information on the cookie package.  Brush up on money-handling skills.  Practice asking a customer to buy cookies…and…the polite way to say “Thank you, maybe next year,” when a customer says “no.”  Remember, you are in the public eye at a booth sale, and you should always present a positive image of Girl Scouting.  Remind the girls to wear their uniform, membership pin, sash, vest, or a Girl Scout Shirt.

Safety First at Booth Sales

  • Adults must be present at all times when Girl Scouts conduct a booth sale.
  •  Girls should never give out their names, addresses or telephone numbers to customers.
  • Girls should make plans to safeguard the money they collect, and should not carry around large amounts of cash and checks. 
  • All Safety Activity Checkpoints and procedures apply (day trip away from the meeting place).