I wanted to add a picture so I used the search Getty Images function with the term "girl scout" and it gave me back pictures of Vanessa Hudgens

Ugh, that seems dangerous to even think about Haus.

But aren't there lots of cookies that are similar to what the Girl Scouts offer? I think Nabisco will explode if the girls get any traction on this.

Well it's unfortunate for the Girl Scouts but fair game I guess.

If it's not WalMart then it must be people like me that have stopped eating cookies. It breaks my heart to be the Ahole that says no to a Girl Scout but I aint buying no cookies honey.

I used to be a Brownie and a Girl Scout. The most exciting things we did were to decorate cans by gluing on painted noodles and decorate bars of soap with ribbons and faux gems. And that was different troops, distant different towns.

You can't even go to Wal-Mart during Girs Scout cookie season without being accosted by cookie-packing pre-teens going in and coming out of the store. I hope Wal-Mart bans them over this.

I was a Girl Scout until our troop leader stole our cookie money. True Story. So I'm a little bitter.

Yeah I know some cookies are knock offs... I don't know why they can't knock off the Samoa, I LOVE those things!

But I don't think it will effect the Girl Scouts bottom line. However, they do charge an awful lot for not a lot of cookies. But I know I'll still buy them... they're tradition!

"I was a Girl Scout until our troop leader stole our cookie money."

OMG. Drama!

i wasnt a girl scout, i never liked the idea of joining a club to do work. and i thought the outfits were kinda dorky. it wasn't until HS that i joined clubs and even then mostly because my friends were in them and they pressured me.

"However, they do charge an awful lot for not a lot of cookies. But I know I'll still buy them... they're tradition!"

I conned my friend into buying some for me earlier this year when they were selling them in his building, and the Samoas don't taste the same to me anymore. Something is off about the chocolate.

maybe they changed the formula when they changed the name to "carmel delights"

I was a Brownie, still have my sash and patches. Never went on to be a Girl Scout , instead I joined a YMCA soccer team, which was way more fun than learning how to help old people and tie knots.

I cant stand the little girl scout gestapo that sits in front of my grocery store begging me to come over and buy cookies, these girls need something better to do than become little cookie selling robots, who are bogged down by competition with eachother and other troops over who can sell the most GD cookies.

"maybe they changed the formula when they changed the name to "carmel delights"

Maybe!

"girl scout gestapo"

Hee!

I'm a sucker, I'll buy anything the kids are peddling. I'm an easy mark. We used to live in a big neighborhood with a ton of kids and I swear they all knew it and I ended up with more cookies, popcorn, wrapping paper and magazine subscriptions than anyone should have.

So I just try to avoid Wal Mart during those times of year.

Mmmm, I love samoas. I like the thin mints, but only when I grind them up in vanilla ice cream and make a delicious minty shake.

My daugher was a brownie, but thought it was boring so she gave it up after a year. Its a lot of work for the moms.

The lemon cookies are my new fav. Can't think of the name of them.

Piper, is it the Lemon Chalet Cremes?

I was a brownie and girl scout. We had some great leaders though and we did lots of fun stuff. We went camping, put on plays, and took two big trips - one to the Grand Canyon and one to Canada. We used our cookie money to pay for the trips.

I don't think so...basically it is a lemon cookie with powdered sugar on it. The "Cremes" part is throwing me off, but that might be it. But they are really good!

Lemon Spritzers?

I was a brownie and I loved it. We went to the ballet, went camping with our dads, and did tons of other fun stuff!

On a side note, I'm pretty sure Wal Mart won't let Girl Scouts sell on their property, unless their policy has changed. In the past it was always that people were allowed to collect donations, (I was on drill team in high school, so we had to do this for band) but people couldn't sell anything, even if it was for a charitable cause. (We were never allowed to collect money for Easter Seals because we gave away balloons and they considered that selling something.)

Oh, and about the topic of the post, I read about this (on Yum Sugar, I think) a little while ago. Tons of people make similar cookies. Suck it up, girl scouts! (I personally will still buy from the Girl Scouts because I like to support the organization.)

I just looked up Girl Scout cookies cause I couldn't remember and the closest description is Lemonades. So I guess that's them...

Kim - Maybe its a company policy thats not really enforced. Nearly every Wal Mart I've lived near has had people soliciting outside of it, sometimes just donations but mostly people selling stuff.

Their policy must have changed cause they are out in force every year here. Have been for ages. Unless this store makes an exception. Churces sell donuts there all the time too. So you pretty much get harrassed every time you go shopping at Wal-Mart here.

Hmmm...They still never sell anything on Wal-Mart grounds at the Wal-Mart in my hometown. The store manager is the mother of a girl I used to be friends with (by the way, Wal-Mart managers make good money, but I digress) and she always said that it wasn't her decision.

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen anyone selling anything in front of any Wal-Mart. Maybe it's a decision the regional or district manager made.

OMG you guys are making me so hungry! I've had the Keebler grasshopper knock-offs and they're delicious.

Just so you all know. $1 of every box sold goes directly to the troop selling the cookies. It is pretty much the only way the girls can have money to do activities. We only get a $50 stipend from the head office. and I know for dang sure we are not in competition with any other troop. All the activities are free for the girls. They only have to pay a $12 initiation fee yearly. The cookies are the only way to benefit the girls. I can see why they are upset. I personally would rather have the girls make their own homemade cookies to sell, but it is what it is. Our last leader did the whole decorating a tin can thing, thats why I took over and am the new troop leader. Because that was not my experience as a girl scout and I want my daughter to have better memories of girl scouts.

When my daughter was in scouts I told the leaders at the family meeting that I'd rather donate money to the group instead of buying cookies.

The kids who had won the cookie count prizes the last two years prior had parents taking the order forms to work and pressing coworkers into buying them...then they had to collect and deliver. Kid was never involved so that was just stupid...but they always got the big prize.

The kids that actually sold the cookies themselves never sold enough to get a prize. We even busted a mom for selling them in advance before anyone even got order forms just so her kid would have a head start. What is that teaching them?

At that meeting I announced that I would be donating $100 to the group to be spent for camp activities and that no cookies/order forms would be coming home with my kid. Twelve other parents did the same thing. Our group basically quit selling cookies after that.

Seriously...when the "big prize" for selling the most cookies is a patch and a stuffed animal (each easily less than $10 if you bought them) seemed a bit stupid.

I'd rather donate money so all the kids could afford to go to camp.

I would be upset if my girls didn't actually do the selling and dispersing. Thats the lesson in the whole thing. I make my daughter call relatives and I would bring her into my work to ask my coworkers. Trust me, being a parent and organizing all the cookie sales is rough. I would much rather people donate to our troop than sell as many cookies. My daughter sold 120 boxes and I was stressed with just that. This year I am going to have to organize the entire troop not fun. Donations sound much better. But a lot of girls in our troops have to have financial aid to pay the $12, so their parents donating $100 would never happen.

Both my daughters were girl scouts. Now my granddaughters are in the scouts. As of at least last year, girl scouts are prohibited from accepting donations, during the cookie drive. I agree with the donations cash certainly, time when possible. My oldest granddaughters’ troop had a schedule for parent/guardian volunteers; we were helping at the meetings on a rotating basis. Since my son worked, I would go up. We help set up, pass out whatever, and put things away. I frankly enjoyed it.

Don't misunderstand me...I was a scout and so was my daughter. I just saw so many differences between when I was a scout & now...as well as compared them side by side with boyscouts as I was involved with that as well.

Boyscouts would decorate coffee cans and place them at grocery store counters for donations...and they got enough to send all the boys to a really cool camp in Colorado!

The girls were prohibited from asking for donations and that seemed silly. Our group had 7 girls that could not afford dues, uniforms or even activities so we had to get creative. Cookie sales just didn't do it. We did a cookie auction instead which allowed people to donate under the guise of an auction.

The girls had to organize and run the event. I think they learned more skills from that than they would have sitting in the hot sun selling on box at a time to grumpy people. They weren't knocking on doors where predators could be.