The Girl Scouts have an unusual problem this year: 15 million boxes of unsold cookies. The 109-year-old organization says the coronavirus — not thinner demand for Thin Mints — is the main culprit. As the pandemic wore into the spring selling season, many troops nixed their traditional cookie booths for safety reasons. Local councils and troops, who depend on the cookie sales to fund programming, travel, camps and other activities, will feel the impact. The Girl Scouts normally sell around 200 million boxes of cookies per year, or around $800 million worth. Rebecca Latham, the CEO of Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails, said her council had 22,000 boxes left over at the end of the selling season in late spring, even though girls tried innovative selling methods like drive-thru booths and contact-free delivery. Latham said troops in her area sold 805,000 boxes of cookies last year; this year, they sold just under 600,000.
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