Boy Scouts Popcorn Fail (1 Viewer)

[IrishTwinkie]

Our girls sell cookies at $5 a box, with $1 going back to the troop 

average booth sells about 150 boxes per 2 hour sitting 

Daughter is finishing up. Just asked, she is seeing 90cents this year, which is up. At no point was she selling 120 boxes in a 2hr stint. That would have been awesome. Generally coming in at around 50  a session, give or take a few. Sometimes she'd have to split with the other scout that was there at the booth too.

Again, this isn't about getting some wicked awesome deal on cookies or popcorn. It is about making a donation so a youth organization can fund their local program. This is true for scouts, baseball teams, lacrosse teams, football teams, etc. 

I'll refrain from commenting in detail on the bankruptcy. I am seeing lots of misinformation about it tho.

 

[Wrigley]

Daughter is finishing up. Just asked, she is seeing 90cents this year, which is up. At no point was she selling 120 boxes in a 2hr stint. That would have been awesome. Generally coming in at around 50  a session, give or take a few. Sometimes she'd have to split with the other scout that was there at the booth too.

Again, this isn't about getting some wicked awesome deal on cookies or popcorn. It is about making a donation so a youth organization can fund their local program. This is true for scouts, baseball teams, lacrosse teams, football teams, etc. 

I'll refrain from commenting in detail on the bankruptcy. I am seeing lots of misinformation about it tho.

This Saturday will be our final booth sale.   It’ll be next door to a local dispensary(new to Illinois)

could be a monster weekend 

 

[IrishTwinkie]

This Saturday will be our final booth sale.   It’ll be next door to a local dispensary(new to Illinois)

could be a monster weekend 

I need to mention that to wifey and daughter. Legal now in MA. Her goal was 300 boxes. Took her 6 or 7 shifts to meet that, but she finally got it. I lost count of the shift count by the end. When son was selling popcorn he'd crush that number easily. Good luck w/the sale.

 

[Bull Dozier]

Daughter is finishing up. Just asked, she is seeing 90cents this year, which is up. At no point was she selling 120 boxes in a 2hr stint. That would have been awesome. Generally coming in at around 50  a session, give or take a few. Sometimes she'd have to split with the other scout that was there at the booth too.

Again, this isn't about getting some wicked awesome deal on cookies or popcorn. It is about making a donation so a youth organization can fund their local program. This is true for scouts, baseball teams, lacrosse teams, football teams, etc. 

I'll refrain from commenting in detail on the bankruptcy. I am seeing lots of misinformation about it tho.

Not scouts specifically, because I love Tagalongs, but when I see people selling crap as fundraisers, I generally ask if I can just make a cash donation (as long as there is an adult around).  Having run youth sporting programs that have tried to sell junk as fundraisers, I know what goes to the program is so small it is not worth overpaying for the product.  "Here, buy this wrapping paper for $10 that normally costs $3 because 50 cents of the sale goes to our program."  The companies organizing these fundraisers are the only ones making any real money.

My boys have to sell coffee and popcorn for their high school baseball team this year.  They had a goal of 20 items or something like that.  I told them not to bother and I'd just write a check for $100 and call it good.  Not worth the effort for the kids, or making family feel guilted in to buy overpriced garbage.

 

[IrishTwinkie]

Not scouts specifically, because I love Tagalongs, but when I see people selling crap as fundraisers, I generally ask if I can just make a cash donation (as long as there is an adult around).  Having run youth sporting programs that have tried to sell junk as fundraisers, I know what goes to the program is so small it is not worth overpaying for the product.  "Here, buy this wrapping paper for $10 that normally costs $3 because 50 cents of the sale goes to our program."  The companies organizing these fundraisers are the only ones making any real money.

My boys have to sell coffee and popcorn for their high school baseball team this year.  They had a goal of 20 items or something like that.  I told them not to bother and I'd just write a check for $100 and call it good.  Not worth the effort for the kids, or making family feel guilted in to buy overpriced garbage.

Agreed. This is basically my screed against the cookies the GS sell. Even at $1 a box coming back, it is only 20%. My experience is much less than that, but I can chalk that up to different councils doing different things. I know the boy scout popcorn returns 2/3rds of the money back to scouting. Donations are better, but not every one sees that. My local HS football team does a "raffle". I've never heard of anyone winning and I know more than a few families w/kids on that team. I'll play along, but look at it as straight up donation when the players come knocking. I hated the PTO sales. Those were crap, for any number of reasons.

 

[Tony Jabroni]

This Saturday will be our final booth sale.   It’ll be next door to a local dispensary(new to Illinois)

could be a monster weekend 

This is.......brilliant.