Facing Increased Costs, Girl Scouts Downsize Cookie Boxes

It's always seemed a little too effortless to finish off a box of Girl Scout cookies, but if they are a little easier to dust off this year, it's not just in your head. To offset the cost increases of cookie ingredients, Girl Scouts of the USA made the decision to shrink its cookie boxes by a centimeter, package fewer cookies into boxes of Thin Mints, Do-si-dos, and Tagalongs, and reduce the size of its Lemon Chalet Crèmes. According to the organization, the cost of flour rose by 30 percent, assorted cooking oils by 40 percent, and cocoa by at least 20 percent. The company felt this was the best method of dealing with increasing raw material prices. Alternatively, Girl Scouts could have used cheaper ingredients, or raised cookie prices from their current price of $3.50 per box.

This doesn't come as a surprise to me, since last year producers began rolling out shrunken products in reaction to the price of food on the rise. I'm secretly a bit excited — for once, the downsized box may be enough for me to stop short of a stomachache.


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there wasn't much in the box to begin with. wth

i'm boycotting these shenanigans

Lord, not the Thin Mints!

i guess this reduces the caloric damage from a whole box binge from 1500 to about 1400. So there's a plus!

I had a boss that would wolf a box of thin mints down in seconds.

KatSkrizzle said:

thin mints are best from the freezer

Those cookies kinda suck anyway. I've only ever bought any out of a sense of obligation to a relative or a boss's daughter. The Girl Scouts are definitely not good bakers.

KatSkrizzle said:

wait a minute, why is my boss selling them for $4?!

NDRU said:

get out!!!! seriously?

I love the Samoas I just never see them anywhere around here.

NDRU said:

Soundz like someone is tryin' to get ova!

alwayslate said:

Caramel Delights

KatSkrizzle said:

mmmm... thin mints
so i'll buy an extra box..

Am I gonna have to cuss a Girl Scout out??
Don't fuck with my cookies!

Damn, you know the economy is REALLY a mess if even the Girl Scouts have to re-vamp their Hustle

Ottensen said:

I know, right? I love their cookies, especially the Tagalongs and the Shortbread ones.

Nice they let this out AFTER they take orders.

Mars23 said:

in fact they came out AGAINST 'rumors' that this was going to happen

Mars23 said:

they take orders?

them short bread cookies help to make a bomb banana pudding! try it instead of them nillas!

NDRU said:

I think the price is different in different locations because I pay $4. BTW, this some bullshit.

Mars23 said:

Who the heck places orders nowadays? I just buy 'em from the lil stinkers standing outside of Walmart.

MAMA NOOOOO


I CANNOT HAVE THIS

this thread title has all sorts of nasty/naughty implications...
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Christopher said:

little bitches.

i have some on the way at work. when do these damn things come in? i'm hungry!

alwayslate said:

omg thin mints !!!!!

i would marry those cookies

johnart said:

calm...