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This Saturday, the Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys will start its annual cookie sales fundraiser. Last year, the 41,000-strong Girl Scouts River Valleys council sold 4.3 million boxes and brought in $17 million.

The Girl Scouts of the USA reported the sales results of their first year selling Thin Mints, Samoas, and other famous cookies online.

Once upon a time, an Oregon Girl Scout troop organized a bake sale. Nearly a century later, the Girl Scouts of America command a $700 million cookie empire.

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See how the Girl Scout Cookie Program teaches girls five essential business and life skills. Girl Scouts make the world a better place—one cookie at a time!

Here in the US, it's Girl Scout cookie season. The money's going to a good cause. Or is it? - Let's break down the numbers and see!

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It's Girl Scout cookie season again, and if you love Girl Scout cookies as much as I do you're probably pretty damn excited about it. Simultaneously, if you're anything like me, you're also a tad worried about your finances and how much money you're …

It's hard to say no to a pint-sized cookie peddler, sweetly asking: Would you like to buy a box of Girl Scout cookies? But in an age where you're watching every penny...

At a time when blizzards are stopping cities in their tracks and our president is blabbering on about nuclear war as if it ain't no thang, the emergence of Girl Scout Cookie season is one little shining beacon of light in the darkness. Not only do Gi…