This may sound stupid...but why in the world do the Boy Scouts sell such crappy stuff for fund raising?
The Girl Scouts have it made in the shade with their cookies. When you see the girls camped out in front of the grocery stores with boxes of cookies there are always lots of people standing around buying them. When you see the boys camped out in front of the grocery stores with giant canisters of popcorn they have to practically beg everyone walking past to take pity on their measly little fund raising efforts and buy something.
It makes me feel bad to say "no thanks", I don't want any of your crappy stale popcorn. But then I remember that I'm not to blame - its the fault of the adult organizers who decided that gourmet popcorn canisters were the way to go. Poor kids.
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Don't feel too bad about saying no. The Girl Scouts get their share of "no" too.
The National Council decided long ago the the Boy Scouts will have Popcorn as their only officially sanctioned fund-raiser. Agree or disagree at the Troop level doesn't matter.
I am an Assistant Scout Master of a Troop in Raleigh. We sale popcorn and have done well at store fronts and door to door. One scout has actually topped $2000 in sales.
Popcorn is not the only fund-raiser our Troop does. We have also held golf tournaments and every spring we sale Pine Straw. These are our big fund-raisers. They benefit our Troop and boys directly.
Unfortunately, with Popcorn, National takes their cut, then the local council, then the Troop and last the boys. Same with the cookies for Girl Scouts.
By the way, the Cannister Popcorn is only a portion of the types sold. I think most Packs and Troops buy them to sale at store fronts because they sell well there. We also offer Microwave Popcorn in a variety of flavors.
Golf tournaments and pine straw sound good. But that nasty canister popcorn...ugh!
I agree entirely. I was a Boy Scout, and the popcorn doesn't sell well at all. My poor father ended up buying a whole bunch that we couldn't sell.
Sure, if you devote a ridiculous amount of energy to it, you can turn a profit. But it's nothing like those cookies.
The best thing we had (and this would've been years and years ago, before the popcorn came about) were the candy bars like the ones that schools would occasionally sell. Then, at least you made something.
Fund-raising didn't work. We relied on each scout's contribution for the camping trips, and through the generousity of the adults who led us and the church that let us hold meetings there.
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