Girl Scout cookie season is officially here. Starting on Jan. of 2025 every girl in a green uniform can be found selling their delicious sweets on street corners and stores every weekend. But sales have been falling behind for these troopers as inflation prices continue to rise, so must the cookie prices.
After five years of five dollar boxes for every cookie from Thin Mints to Caramel Delights, 2025 raised the prices to between six and seven dollars a box. Some districts have even raised the prices to six dollars and fifty cents, making change much more valuable for the girls used to using simple dollars. While the simple dollar raise may not seem that extreme, the impact it has on these Girl Scouts goes a long way.
“I think it’s harder on the little girls in the booths than anything else because you know it’s not an easy divisible number anymore but one that requires cents that can make transactions a lot harder and longer,” senior Paige Rosenblatt said.
More change has also come about in the 2025 cookie season as it will be the last season for the cookies the Toast-yays and the S’mores. A new cookie was also introduced during the cookie season of 2025 called the Adventurelings. This pattern of placing and removing cookies is nothing new but the price inflation may be the reason for these cookies disappearing as more and more people are less likely to buy them.
“I love Girl Scout cookies and I don’t have a stable income, so how am I supposed to buy a truckload of cookies if the prices are raised? Keep the cookie prices low. Keep them low,” junior Ashlynn Farrell said.
While the Girl Scout organization will hopefully always be around, the strange occurance of adaptation to inflation by a beloved group of little sellers does bring back the harsh reality of a growing market. No doubt that the cookies will continue to sell as their reputation is famous for deliciousness, but this does raise questions in the future of by how much will they raise by and what will it do to the Scouts who won’t be able to sell them all?
“This is ridiculous. This is a lot harder on the Girl Scouts because no one wants to buy a box of cookies for six dollars. I’m not an economist but I think we need to find a way to stop letting the prices for things such as Girl Scout cookies rise,” senior Isabella Carter said.
