El Paso Girl Scouts Have More than 100,000 Unsold Cookie Boxes

Samantha Wise has been a Girl Scout for several years in El Paso and, usually at the end of the cookie sales period, her group is left with less than 2,000 unsold boxes, but now they have accumulated 100,000 boxes.

“At the beginning we thought we wanted the Covid and that surprised us, but I think we can sell them on time,” said Samantha.

Unlike other seasons, the Girl Scouts did not sell their cookies in their neighborhoods or outside the shopping centers, supermarkets or libraries of El Paso, Texas as usual due to restrictions due to the pandemic. Now, they diversified their sales methods in order not to keep the cookies.

“In the beginning, when we went from house to house, people were telling us not to do it because we were supposed to be quarantined,” said Kim Wise, who is also a Girl Scout.

Girl Scouts have had to adapt to the circumstances and make changes in their sales operations, because although they are no longer seen in the neighborhoods, the little scouts have not interrupted their activities, only now they are more resourceful.

Some of them offer their products online, also use digital kiosks, use digital platforms for the sale and delivery of prepared food and even use aerial drones to transport their famous cookies, explained Nelson Camargo, vice president of communications and membership of the Girl Scouts of Citrus. Buyers can pay online and have their order shipped or delivered by a Girl Scout.

Some of the members take their orders in a personalized way using a virtual application with which they can also make their payments, since they have a portal where they can register the goals that they have set to sell their products and know the progress they have made.