5.15.2008

Girl Scout Cookies

DETROIT (AP) - A Girl Scout sold 17,328 boxes of the group's signature cookies this year by setting up shop on a street corner, shattering her troop's old mark and probably setting a national record.

Jennifer Sharpe, a 15-year-old from Dearborn, plans to travel to Europe with her troop with the proceeds from her feat.

"It's always been one of those goals I wanted to accomplish," Sharpe said Wednesday. (Full Story at wtop)


If my kid was selling that many, I would ditch the Girl Scout cookies and come up with something she could keep the profit from.