Dear Troop Cookie Managers and Leaders:

 

Happy New Year! We just want to remind you that the booth lottery for KC Metro area booths closes TONIGHT, January 1st at 11:59 pm.

There has been a lot of social media conversation about booth locations we had last year but not yet this year. We have to ask permission each year, and it's not uncommon for some locations not to join, new locations to come on board and many requests for us to call back after the busy holiday season. We began our initial order taking earlier, but this didn't speed up the potential booth location's schedule. We expect additional locations to be secured in the first couple of weeks of January. Our priority will be to walk in the door tomorrow morning and begin those follow-up calls.

One of the biggest locations pending is Wal-Mart. Every Wal-Mart location decides if they will allow sales outside their front doors, so it's not a guarantee we will secure every location. For those that generously allow our Girl Scouts, a national contract is required. This contract just got completed by the GSUSA & Wal-Mart teams. We have the documentation we need and will make these follow up calls a priority along with our other pending locations. 

If you are in the metro area and want a booth spot(s), we advise that you enter this initial lottery. Here's a reminder on how to do that. As we secure additional locations, we will run a separate booth lottery for a service unit, service units or regional area. Special Cookiegrams will go out announcing these new additions and directions with deadline on how to enter. We know you are working to get those initial cookie orders in, so we will work just as quickly as we can to secure and run these additional lotteries.