Monday, January 09, 2006
Girl Scout Cookies...
If a girl scout shows up at your door, do you HAVE to buy cookies?
I mean, let's say you don't really want them. Are you discouraging the girl if you say no and sending her down the wrong path? Or, are you misleading her, by doing a symptathy buy, since that's not how sales really work?
This year, the doorbell rang and I KNEW I didn't want ANY cookies at all in the house (having learned from last year).
What to do?
P.S. One option was to buy a box that would be "donated" with the proceeds going to the "Army" (that's the word she used) or "Cancer" (I didn't ask further).
I mean, let's say you don't really want them. Are you discouraging the girl if you say no and sending her down the wrong path? Or, are you misleading her, by doing a symptathy buy, since that's not how sales really work?
This year, the doorbell rang and I KNEW I didn't want ANY cookies at all in the house (having learned from last year).
What to do?
P.S. One option was to buy a box that would be "donated" with the proceeds going to the "Army" (that's the word she used) or "Cancer" (I didn't ask further).