As a Girl Scout all my life, while this may be true, they also use it as a way to teach girls productive skills such as marketing, manners, budgeting, responsibility, etc. So it has many purposes. One of the worst things about it though is that the little scouts selling the cookies only make a small fraction of what they are sold for, meaning that the entire troop has to sell a mountain of them to actually be able to raise enough money to do something as a troop.
"little scouts selling the cookies only make a small fraction of what they are sold for"
Isn't that just what a profit margin is? Or do they only get a small part of the profit margin?
OK, I'll say it...they aren't even very good cookies. Have you ever figured the price per ounce? There are many much better alternatives. I can't even figure out why they're that expensive, since the distribution channel is worked for free by the scouts and their parents.
Isn't that just what a profit margin is? Or do they only get a small part of the profit margin?