Girl Scouts of America fell short by fifteen million boxes of cookie sales for 2021 season, versus typical selling season.

“As the pandemic wore into the spring selling season,” Dee-Ann Durbin wrote for Associated Press yesterday, “many troops nixed their traditional booths for safety reasons ….

The impact will be felt by local councils and troops, who depend on the cookie sales to fund programming, travel, camps and other activities. The Girl Scouts normally sell around 200 million boxes of cookies per year, or around $800 million worth.

That works out to a 7½% shortfall due to COVID-19.

Full article can be read at Detroit News, titled “Thinner Mints: Girl Scouts have millions of unsold cookies.”