Girl Guides are being treated to some support since door-to-door cookie sales have been suspended due to COVID-19.
A few major businesses are putting the popular Girl Guide cookies on the shelves, to keep the kids safe and programs going.
Canadian Tire, London Drugs and Save-On-Foods are lending a helping hand and will be selling the cookies. The Girl Guides of Canada decided to cancel cookie sales earlier this month, not wanting to put kids and leaders on the front lines and make them susceptible to the coronavirus.
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The challenge of Girl Guides of Canada faced with 800,000 boxes of cookies needing to be sold to support ongoing programs was met by the three retail giants.
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The famous chocolate and vanilla sandwich cookies are also available at all 175 Save-On-Foods and Urban Fare locations.
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All sales of the cookies will go directly to Girl Guides of Canada; London Drugs and Save-On-Foods are simply providing a safe distribution network.
B次元官网网址淭housands of Girl Guides are staying home for everyoneB次元官网网址檚 health and safety, while looking at their boxes of cookies and wondering how they can get them sold to support their empowering Guiding activities when in-person programs can resume,B次元官网网址� said Isinger.
You can also order the cookies online through and have them delivered.
Girl Guides of Canada is also working on a , which will be launched next week.
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