This writer was a Girl Scout, and the annual cookie sale was always a huge deal. As she grew up and aged out of being a Girl Scout, she'd gladly buy cookies from other girls trying to raise money for their troop.
But the prices of the cookies have gone up, up, up over the years, while the quality has not. When the Girl Scouts discontinued their best cookie -- the lemon pastry creams -- this writer tapped out.
In March of this year, a lawsuit was filed in a federal court in New York after a study showed the baked goods have unsafe levels of heavy metals and even herbicides.
So sales have dropped off.
Economic uncertainty is taking a giant bite out of New York Girl Scout cookie sales — leaving the local chapter of the organization with its lowest performing season in over a decade, The Post has learned.
Scouts across the five boroughs hawked just 1.1 million boxes of Thin Mints, Samoas and other cookies (including and the now-discontinued S’mores) during the 2024-2025 season as penny-pinching New Yorkers tightened their belts.
That’s the lowest sales figure since the 2013-2014 season, when the Girl Scouts of Greater New York (GSGNY) sold just over 1 million boxes of their famous cookies, according to the group’s annual financial reports.
It’s also half of the record-breaking 2.2 million boxes that were sold during 2020-2021 as the Big Apple was plunged into the COVID-19 pandemic.
X users didn't buy the 'economic uncertainy' argument. There have been recessions and economic downturns, but the cookies always sold well.
As we said.
Joe Biden.
If they kept the cookies at $5 a box, it would sell better.
That's the narrative.
Apparently.
That, too.
They do not.
That, too.
This writer sold them door-to-door too.
The politics of the Girl Scouts organization cannot be overlooked.
People aren't going to pay $7 for a bad box of cookies.
Not when you can get cheaper, better cookies (and the Oreo lemon cookies are a great replacement for the long-gone lemon pastry creams).
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