CHICAGO, Ill. (WBBM) — Girl Scouts in the Chicago area say some popular varieties of cookies are going fast because of supply-chain issues.
Thin Mints — that perennial best seller — is not dwindling on the Girl Scout supply shelves, according to Scout leaders.
But new variety Adventurefuls is hard to keep in stock, according to Nancy Wright, the CEO of Girl Scouts for Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana.
“There are challenges in the marketplace, like everybody’s experiencing in the supply chain — both with regards to distribution and getting product to us,” she said Friday.
Sales are up this year, but Wright said the girls are getting a real-life lesson in how a business’s operations can get interrupted.
Other cookies that have been flying off the Scouts’ supply shelves: the popular Samoas and S’mores.
The idea of Girl Scout cookie sales began in 1917, when a chapter in Oklahoma decided to sell homemade cookies in order to fund their projects. Other troops took note, the organization said, and the idea to sell nationwide developed from there.
Cookie season kicked off in the Los Angeles area kicked off Friday. To find sales in a neighborhood near you, click here and enter your zip code.
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