A Girl Scout Just Broke the Cookie Sales Record with 32,484 Boxes Sold
A Girl Scout Just Broke the Cookie Sales Record with 32,484 Boxes Sold
The normal, human way to eat Girl Scout cookies (especially, if we're talking Thin Mints) is to scarf down the entire box in one sitting. And it seems like everyone agrees because a single troop member managed to smash the record for sales this year—racking up 32,484 purchases alone.
Brownie Lilly, 8, of San Bernardino, California, blew previous competitors out of the water with her strategic sales tactics, which reportedly included her dedication to donating cookies to charity, online sales, and the hours spent posted up in front of her own house, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
Her backstory—as a child, she battled the rare cancer Ewing's sarcoma—was a driving force behind the young entrepreneur...