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Thank you for a successful start to our Girl Scout Cookie Season. As
we enter our third cookie season amid the COVID-19 pandemic, we are no
strangers to unprecedented challenges.
We have just been
informed by Little Brownie Bakers that supply chain and labor
disruptions have caused a nationwide shortage in the production of the
Adventurefuls™ cookie. Each council will be limited to 7% of the
minimum initial order amount that was forecasted last November.
Here is our plan of action:
We will cut off the girl delivery option in
Digital Cookie on Friday, January 7, at 12:00 PM.
The Adventurefuls™ cookie has been trending higher than the
7% variety and we want to limit the impact on our in-person initial
sale. All other varieties will be available for Girl delivery. The
Adventurefuls™ cookie will remain as an option for Direct Shipped
orders for the time being as shipped orders come directly from the
baker’s distributer. Please make sure your Digital Cookie sites are
set up and available for ordering.
We are asking our Girl
Scouts to immediately discontinue the selling of the Adventurefuls™
cookie on their in-person order cards. We will do our best to fill
the orders for the initial sale.
All other cookie
varieties are available, and we do not anticipate any other varieties
to be impacted by this shortage. Little Brownie Bakers is working
diligently to address the impact that the labor shortage has had on
the production of Adventurefuls™. GSUSA is working with both cookie
companies to try to provide a solution before the end of the cookie
season, so we still have hope. Your other Girl Scout Cookie™ favorites
like Thin Mints® and Samoas® are in stock and ready to go.
We understand this is an unexpected change and apologize for
the inconvenience. We know this news comes as a shock and may deplete
some of the excitement around this year’s cookie season. But our Girl
Scouts are strong and resilient, and we are committed to helping them
succeed. We will continually evaluate the situation and update you as
we move forward. Thank you for your understanding, and let’s continue
to climb with courage this cookie season!
If you have
additional questions or need assistance, please contact us at customercare@gssc.us.