Walmart rips off Girl Scout Cookies

[bananas]

Poll question: Walmart rips off Girl Scout Cookies

http://authenticorganizations.com/harquail/2009/08/03/wal-mart-knocks-off-the-girl-scouts/

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Wal-mart has copied the Girl Scouts’ two best selling cookie types, Thin Mints and Tagalongs.

Wal-mart is selling Fake Girl Scout Cookies.

Wal-mart has fake Girl Scout cookies in ‘beta’ distribution, on their way to a national rollout. Because the cookies are ‘reasonable facsimiles’ of the authentic Girl Scout cookies (I sampled them myself at BlogHer ‘09 last week) and are being sold at an everyday low price, these cookies are poised to snatch cookie sales right out of the hands of the Girl Scouts themselves.

Every cookie fan in the US knows that the Girl Scouts in the USA make all of the money to run their organization from their annual cookie sales. You might not know that Thin Mints, the most popular flavor, account for 25% of the Girl Scouts’ sales. Said another way, those Thin Mint cookies account for 25% of the Girl Scouts’ cookie income.

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I take these fake cookies, this threat to the Girl Scouts by Wal-mart, quite personally. For several years, I was the Cookie Mom for my daughters’ troop, teaching the girls how to set goals, budget their time and money, and work together to sell cookies. I’ve seen the girls’ excitement when it’s time to sell, and their pride when they get to deliver the cookies. And, I’ve slept in the damp tent on the camping trips that the cookie proceeds paid for. So yeah, this one really hits home.

Wal-mart can sell all the hunting equipment, cheap plastic gizmos and clothes made in sweatshops that it wants to sell. But why must they encroach upon the market of a non-profit? Why do they have to go after the Girl Scouts?

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Girl Scouts should picket Walmart.
Would you cross the picket line?

[MercutioATC]

1. Other. I wouldn't cross a picket line at WalMart because I refuse to shop there.

As far as the cookie issue goes, companies have been copying other' successful products for centuries.

Your reaction is akin to getting mad at printers who sell personalized mailing labels because the American Cancer Society uses them for fundraising.

[ColbertWatcher]

3. This. n/t

[hfojvt]

2. Why aren't there any Boy Scout cookies?

Boy Scouts don't sell anything that I can remember, except tickets to the rendezvous with scout-o-rama. So on the one hand, it seems like GSA would be screwn if they lose their cookie income, but how is it that BSA manages to survive just fine without any cookie income?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

4. Boy Scouts sell popcorn.

http://www.trails-end.com/estore/home_alt.jsp;jsessionid=5D169E94B9769D5E16A8C3F2F1DE52EF?_requestid=14694

I've bought a couple of boxes from the little buggers when they're set up outside my local grocery store.

[MercutioATC]

6. Doesn't WalMart also sell popcorn?

...just sayin'

[hfojvt]

7. popcorn?

They must make lots of money from DU :popcorn:

[WorseBeforeBetter]

8. That did come to mind. :-P

The blog comments have touched on free market capitalism, homosexuality, abortion, and support for the military. Kee-rist, even cookies are controversial. I need a Thin Mint!

[Sherman A1]

5. I don't shop at Wal Mart now, so the question is moot to me

but there is that little Union issue with them that comes well before the cookie issue. Just avoid Wal Mart and both problems are solved.

[azurnoir]

9. Didn't Keebler do this along time ago? n/t