Usually when Girl Guide cookie season rolls around you can count on catching your local troupe set up outside stores, at your door, or passing the job off to a parent who can get you the goods at the office. But COVID-19 put a major wrench in this year's cookie-selling efforts, leaving Guide troupes across B.C. sitting on a mountain of cookies.
Fortunately, to help us all pack on that "COVID-19" (when the 19 means how many pounds we're all gaining while in "stay home" mode) several B.C. and Metro Vancouver businesses have stepped up to offer to sell Girl Guide cookies, with all of the cookie sale money going to the BC Girl Guides.
Both I.G.A. and Fresh St. Market will be selling 4,000 boxes of Girl Guide cookies at $5 each, with all proceeds going to the Guides.
Fresh St. Market, which has two Surrey locations, as well as one in West Vancouver and another to the north in Whistler, is the more upscale and locavore-oriented sibling grocer of I.G.A., which are both run by Georgia Main, the recently-rebranded food division of H.Y. Louie. The latter, of course, has roots in Vancouver dating back to 1903, and is perhaps now best known for owning London Drugs. Fresh St. recently opened their massive downtown Vancouver store at the Vancouver House development in the newly-christened "Beach District" of the city.
London Drugs was the first to offer up their retailing services to help the Guides. As of March 25, residents of the Lower Mainland began to see Girl Guide cookies in London Drugs stores. The cookies are available at London Drugs' 82 stores across Western Canada, as well as online.
Additionally, Save-On-Foods joined in to help the Girl Guides sell their cookies, making the sweet fundraising treats available at all Save-On-Foods and Urban Fare locations from B.C. to Manitoba and north to the Yukon.
Girl Guides sell over six million boxes of cookies each year and have been selling cookies since 1927. For more information visit Girl Guides online and follow @girlguidesofcanada on Instagram or @girlguidesofcan on Twitter.
With files from Elana Shepert and Glacier Media
