Ń GSKSMO estimates, in general, troops sell approximately 50 packages an hour at high traffic locations like Walmart or a weekend grocery store. The number of packages sold at any location can vary depending on the weather, the store’s traffic, what you have in stock, and if you’ve promoted the booth. Discuss your location with your sister TCMs – they will have the best advice because they have most likely hosted a booth at the location. Ń Get plenty of change, especially ones, fives, and tens. A change box is helpful as well as a secondary box or envelope so you can pull large bills out. Ń Download the Digital Cookie app! This app is free for both iPhone and Android users from your app store. You’ll use this app to accept credit cards from Booth Customers! Digital Cookie uses OCR (scanning) to capture and send (not photograph and save) credit cards. Girls can also manually enter a credit card using Digital Cookie. Think of it as a portable cash register.
Ń Thin Mints are the #1 selling Girl Scout cookie (25% of our sales); it’s key you have them at your booth. Ideally, you’ll have the rest of the varieties, but plan accordingly based on average sales. Here are average sales, by variety, for our council in 2024: 1. Thin Mints: 26%. 2. Peanut Butter Patties: 15%. 3. Caramel deLites: 15%. 4. Lemonades: 11%. 5. Peanut Butter Sandwiches: 9%. 6. Adventurefuls: 8%. 7. Trefoils: 6%. 8. Toast-Yay!: 4%. 9. Caramel Chocolate Chip: 2%.
DO NOT!
☙ Ask the retailer for change. ☙ Use shopping carts to transport cookies from the car to the booth and back. ☙ Tape signs to the walls of the stores. ☙ Bring non-troop children to the booth. Tag-alongs are not allowed! ☙ Use an empty cookie box or any other “disposable” thing for booth money. If you don’t have money boxes or envelopes, use storage containers, a lunch box, a fanny pack/belt bag, or something you can designate as the place you keep cookie money. ☙ Set out a TIP jar. Any donations should be turned into Cookie Shares.
Ń Have a table, chairs, and a way to move the cookies from the car to the booth. Some stores provide tables and chairs, but most don’t. Look at the location notes for this info.
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