That's not fair... Here in Oregon, it's $5 a box this year. I was not happy to pay $5 a box for a small amount of cookies. Why the difference in states?

It's $5 in my area too. We paid that last year also.

Here in NH the gluten-free and the S'More cookies are $5.00 each and the other flavors are $4.00 each. We have Little Brownie Bakers. Maine has another baker. My troop thinks the Maine gluten-free cookies taste a lot better than our gluten-free cookies and I agree with them.

Our S'More cookies are 2 short breads with the 2 fillings. The Maine ones are different shaped, chocolate covered. and marshmallow (we could debate that) inside. I understand the Maine ones need more filling to make them taste better.

Ambassador Girl Scouts - in our council it appears/appeared to be top secret (so is a lot of other stuff) and we found out about it, if you wrote a letter to the CEO of the council and asked if you could save your cookie dough for the 2 years and use it towards your 'paid-up-for-life' membership, you could. The CEO then sent our girls a letter stating they could do that. It was the scouts responsibility to keep their own records for the cookie sales. The lifetime membership for graduating seniors and being 18 years old, the price is $195.00. The regular price is $375.00..............big difference.

I'm in Eastern MA. We have the other bakery, ABC, & our cookies are $5. Both NH and Western MA have $4 cookies, so it's tough selling. (And I thought OUR gluten-free cookies were the terrible ones!)

One explanation I've heard as to why the cookies are different prices is that the bulk of the proceeds goes to council to help with camps & other programming. Real estate is definitely more expensive here, as are salaries - so it makes sense.

We use ABC baker.

I am wondering if the price difference has to do with incentives? We need to sell a lot to get them, but we noticed in NY there was a council that used little brownie baker and if cutie cat sold as many as she did there, she'd have all kids of prizes. And she liked the owls better than the llamas we have. I'll be so thankful next year when they can opt out of the junk. ;)

The camp costs makes since too. Our council has closed a fe of our camps, and not all of them are doing resident camp over summer anymore. :(

I thought it was due to cost of living/rent etc differences.
Ours are $5 for most, $6 for S'mores and gf. Little Brownie Bakers. Incentives seem ridiculously high. (24 for a patch, 50 for a bandanna) We live in a very HCOL area, though.
It is sometimes hard because people living in other areas will bring their kids' lower priced cookies to work, and we get customers who want the lower priced cookies. We've had camp closures, too.

My daughter has been wanting to age out specifically so she can be a lifetime member at half price. Not sure what else she wants out of the program, but she says she wants to keep going and use her money for a lifetime membership. It's a goal, right? :-) She's 14, almost 15 and we're struggling to keep the troop together at this point. Wishing that Juliettes can sell cookies so we didn't have to worry about keeping 5 girls active!

Our girls have to sell 65 boxes for a patch, 100 for the 100 year of cookies patch, 350 boxes for a tee shirt... It's a lot of cookies. It's also 125 boxes/day of resident camp they want to go which is what she works for. Incentives aren't that special to them.

That's not right about the lower price cookies at work. :(
Have the girls talk to the council about it. Make their voices heard, it's their sale after all.

The Cookie sale is now over.
Thank you everyone who purchased! She made her goal! :)