Girl Scouts are beginning cookie distribution differently this year

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana have received their shipment of cookies Thursday. This year, cookie sales are looking a little different than in the past because of the pandemic.

Thursday, girls and their parents loaded up their vehicles with cookies to sell as trucks loaded down with the sweet treats dropped them off at Soky Marketplace.

With experts encouraging social distancing and other COVID practices, girl scouts have changed up the way they are selling their sweet treats, according to Brooke Slone, director of product sales and merchandizing for Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana.

“Girls are still selling door to door. They are being careful and safe and everything, following all of the restrictions that they need to. But another way is through online sales. So girls are also selling cookies digitally this year,” said Slone.

Cookie sales are happening more online this year than years prior.

With online sales, the girls, like Caleah Holmes are learning more about digital marketing.

“I think we are learning different things because we have to do more things at home than you do outside more, less cookie booths,” said Holmes.

Lauren Allen, a local Girl Scout, says this is the first year she has ever sold cookies online.

“I think it’s made it harder especially with the change to the cookie booths. Because, my troop, personally, we get most of our sales from the booths. I don’t know why that is, but we do, so the big change is going to maybe damper our sales or either skyrocket them,” said Allen.

Still, though, some scouts are going door to door and hosting drive through cookie booths and still some are putting up normal booths with extra caution for distancing.

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