Just a few years after the Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, the tradition of troops selling cookies began. The first Girl Scout cookies were sold by the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma in 1917 — the scouts baked cookies and sold them in a high school cafeteria as a service project, according to the Girl Scouts official website. Several other troops began baking and selling cookies throughout the ’20s and ’30s, and in 1935, the Girl Scout Federation of Greater New York raised money through the sale of commercially baked cookies for the first time. The following year, the national Girl Scout organization began the process of licensing the first commercial bakers to produce cookies that would be sold nationwide by troops.
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Now, selling cookies has become a Girl Scout tradition, with people all over the country clamoring to get their hands on a box of Thin Mints or Samoas. This year’s prices range from $5 to $6 a box — each local Girl Scout council sets their own pricing based on factors that include ingredients, market size and shipping costs, so prices may vary by region, CNBC reported — but those first Girl Scout cookies were sold for just a quarter. Take a look at Girl Scout cookie prices throughout the years.
March 01, 2021 at 11:40PM
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