For the first time, the Girl Scouts will partner with food delivery service Grubhub to deliver her beloved cookies that its members sell annually to support youth programs and activities.
The partnership will Girl Scouts to safely sell cookies during the pandemic through contactless collection and delivery.
If you want to try out the cookies and support the organization, but don’t know a Girl Scout personally, you can also order the cookies online from 1 February, the organization said in a press release on Tuesday.
“We are proud of the resourceful ways Girl Scouts are running their cookie business safely and using their revenues to make the world a little better,” GSUSA interim CEO Judith Batty said in a statement this week.
Pandemic restrictions on the personal sale of cookies helped the girls develop their entrepreneurial skills. They had to “use innovative sales tactics and find new ways of doing business when things don’t go according to plan,” Batty added.
Grubhub offers pickup or delivery of the cookies to select cities from an ever-expanding list of states, including Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Texas.
E-commerce skills
It’s also an experiment in ecommerce for troop members aged five and up, who will learn how to manage inventory, track and fulfill orders using Grubhub’s back-end technology – just like many small business owners new to online platforms learned to do during the pandemic.
Grubhub, often hit by restaurants For charging too high a fee to serve customers, waives all fees for the Girl Scouts, so that the organization receives 100% of the proceeds from the cookie sales, according to the announcement.
“GSUSA is grateful to Grubhub for waiving all fees for the organization to make this new delivery option feasible for sale without diminishing troop and municipal revenues,” the organization said in a press release.
Online ordering through Grubhub starts on February 14. Online ordering through the Girl Scouts’ Digital Cookie Platform begins February 1.
To find out if Grubhub delivers Girl Scout cookies in your area, you can enter your zip code on a dedicated page of its website. To find contactless cookie booths near you, visit www.girlscoutcookies.org or text COOKIES to 59618 (message and data rates may apply), or download the official Girl Scout Cookie Finder app.