Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida (GSSEF) kicks off the 2021 Girl Scout Cookie season with Girl
Scouts doing what they do best. Girls are putting on their thinking caps and selling in creative,
socially distant and contact-free ways to keep themselves and their customers safe. In light of
the COVID-19 pandemic, girls are adapting their sales methods to share the joy of Girl Scout
Cookies through the largest girl-led entrepreneurship program. They are hosting drive thru
cookie booths, putting up “lemonade stand” types of displays in their neighborhoods, using
door hangers to offer contactless porch deliveries and other creative solutions. A new way for
customers to satisfy their cookie craving this year is through a new national collaboration with
Grubhub allowing contact-free pickup and delivery orders.
Ordering Now Available Through Delivery Platform Grubhub
Starting February 18, GSSEF is participating in a national collaboration with food ordering and
delivery platform Grubhub so girls have an additional way to facilitate contact-free cookie
orders. In South Florida consumers can order Girl Scout Cookies for pickup or delivery on
Grubhub.com or the Grubhub app. A hands-on experience in managing e-commerce, girl will
track and fulfill orders, manage inventory and more, all using Grubhub’s back-end technology.
Just like with the other types of sales, the proceeds from the Grubhub sales benefit local Girl
Scouts while providing another innovative way to safely run the cookie program virtually.
Innovative Girl-led Sales Methods
The Girl Scout Cookie Program has long taught girls how to run a business via in-person booths,
door-to-door activity and the Digital Cookie platform online. For the past several years, GSSEF
has been using the Digital Cookie technology to enhance their cookie sale experience. It allows
customers to place an order for all of their favorite cookie varieties, pay for their order with a
credit card and choose one of two delivery options – either have the cookies shipped directly to
them or have their local Girl Scout deliver them. Girls can create and share a QR code that links
directly to their Digital Cookie site allowing for safe, easy cookie purchases.
Digital Cookie has enhanced girls’ ability to take their sale to the next level with both a mobile
app and a girl’s personalized website, putting control of the sale, from customer contact to
completion of the order, squarely in her hands. With the ability to provide contactless cookie
purchasing, girls still learn the entrepreneurship skills the Cookie Program is known for and
customers can feel good while safely supporting girls while purchasing their favorite Girl Scout
Cookies. And the proceeds from each and every purchase stay local to power Girl Scouts’
essential leadership programming.
How to Safely Purchase Girl Scout Cookies This Season
Girl Scout Cookie season runs through March 21 st in South Florida. Consumers can support Girl
Scouts by purchasing Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs or any of their favorite varieties in a few
different ways:
If you know a Girl Scout, reach out to her to find out how she’s selling cookies this year.
If you don’t know a Girl Scout, visit
https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/gabi441722 to purchase cookies online with
an option for shipment to your door, delivery to a local address or have them donated
to first responders, healthcare heroes and local causes.
Text COOKIES to 59618 or use the Girl Scout Cookie Finder www.girlscoutcookies.org
and enter your zip code to find the closest socially distant or contact-free cookie booths.
Visit www.grubhub.com/food/girl_scouts to order via contact-free delivery from
Grubhub.
