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Friday, March 17, 2023
To ensure all Girl Scouts receive credit towards rewards and
troops receive credit towards troop proceeds, GSNI will be changing
the Final Reward Submission date. This is due the delay of some
Digital Cookie shipped orders.
The new deadline will be
Saturday, March 25 at 11:59 p.m. If you did not receive an email that
a Girl Scout in your troop is impacted by these orders and all cookies
have been appropriately distributed and allocated to Girl Scouts, you
can submit at anytime. It is not necessary to wait until this new
deadline. See page 10 of the Troop Cookie Manual for more details on
allocating cookies and final rewards. For more instructions on
submitting final rewards, review pages 13-14 of the Troop eBudde
Manual.
Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any
questions, please contact cookies4you@girlscoutsni.org.
Your GSNI Product Program Team,
Anna, Michele, Debbie and Becky
Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Little Brownie Bakers (LBB) has notified us that they
experienced severe weather this past weekend, resulting in power
outages at their factory and exacerbating their ongoing inventory
challenges. LBB currently has enough inventory to continue offering
only three cookie varieties for direct ship on Digital Cookie: Thin
Mints, Adventurefuls, and S’mores. As a result, our council will only
be able to leave direct ship on for these three varieties for the
remainder of the season.
GSNI has received a re-order
from LBB to re-fill our cupboards, however Tagalongs were impacted on
this delivery. Due to this reduction, at this time, Tagalongs are not
available for additional cupboard orders, have been turned off for
Digital Cookie girl delivery and will not be available for Cookie
Cravers. Tagalongs on current pending orders may need to be reduced or
deleted. The Cupboard Manager will communicate these changes and you
will see changes to your order in eBudde.
As of writing
this email today, we have sufficient inventory to fulfill current
pending orders on other cookie varieties. As inventory depletes, we
will do our best to move inventory around to our busiest cupboards and
possibly close smaller cupboards. GSNI is pursuing all opportunities
to get more Tagalongs and other varieties as needed in-house.
We understand these baker updates are extremely frustrating and
want to offer our apologies and pass on apologies from LBB. We truly
appreciate all the hard work of our girls and volunteers and recognize
this cookie season has already been exceptionally challenging.
If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to
cookies4you@girlscoutsni.org.
Your GSNI Product Program
Team,
Anna, Michele, Debbie and Becky
Monday, February 27, 2023
The news of Raspberry Rally cookies traveled at warp speed and
are now sold out for Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois. Girl Scouts of
the USA allocated a certain number of packages per council (calculated
on volume of shipped Digital Cookie packages sold in previous years).
We have learned that more than 50% of councils across the country sold
out by approximately 9 a.m., just like GSNI. No additional Raspberry
Rally cookies will be available this year.
Congratulations to our Girl Scouts and so many successful cookie
booths last weekend! We are excited to see what our Girl Scouts will
accomplish in the next three weeks through cookie booths and other
additional sales. Digital Cookie shipped orders are still available
for 7 varieties of cookies. While we all have a favorite cookie,
please remind customers the Girl Scout Cookie Program its more than
the cookie in the box and their support is appreciated!
Questions? Please contact cookies4you@girlscoutsni.org.
Your GSNI Product Program Team,
Anna, Michele, Debbie and Becky
Monday, November 28, 2022
As of Monday, November 28, 2022, GSNI received final messaging and information regarding alterations to the 2023 Cookie Program. The GSNI 2023 Cookie Program will start as planned on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, with a few schedule changes. Customers will be able to place girl delivery and donation orders in Digital Cookie starting on Thursday, December 15, 2022. Digital Cookie shipped orders will not be able to be placed until Monday, February 27, 2023. This delay in Digital Cookie shipped orders will also delay the availability to purchase Raspberry Rally cookies. These changes will allow Little Brownie Bakers (LBB) to better supply councils with the cookies needed in-hand for initial orders, cupboards, and cookie booths.
These decisions on delays were made by GSUSA based on input from councils and LBB’s best production estimates. All parties involved learned from 2022 and are working together to equalize impact across all LBB councils. All LBB/Digital Cookie councils will start girl delivery and donation orders on December 15, 2022 (or when their program starts if after this date) and shipped orders on February 27, 2023.
The delay of Digital Cookie shipped orders will allow for that inventory to be available for Initial Order deliveries in February as well as cupboard inventory. As we learned from 2022, nothing is guaranteed, but GSNI has a greater confidence these changes will alleviate or significantly reduce supply issues. In addition to the Digital Cookie shipped order delays, twelve councils agreed to delay the start of their program to alleviate the supply demands as well.