Girl Scouts Take to the Internet for Cookie
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Channel: Dayton 24/7 Now · 2014 · News & Politics
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- For the first time in nearly a century the Girl Scouts will be selling its signature cookies online. Individual scouts will be able to sell the popular cookies by phone app or website. But only if their scout councils and guardians say OK. "Girls have been telling us that they want to go into this space," said Sarah Angel-Johnson, chief digital cookie executive for the organization covering about 2 million girls. "Online is where entrepreneurship is going." And the best news for these digital natives: They can have cookies shipped directly to your doorstep. More than 1 million scouts, from kindergarten-age Daisies to teens, were expected to opt in as cookie-selling season cranks up this month and the scouting organization gets digital sales underway. But digital sales are intended to enhance, not replace, the paper spreadsheets used to generate an estimated $800 million in cookie sales a year at anywhere from $3.50 to $5 a box, depending on scout council.
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