leaving+booth+sales

sent 2/18, 12:30pm

Hi everyone, I want to remind you that once your booth sales are finished, please vacate the premises completely (including parking lots, surrounding areas, etc).

From page 30 of the troop cookie book: "__**Sales**__ __**generally cannot be held**__ ... __**adjacent to existing sale sites**__  __**or in areas that might be hazardous (parking lots, street corners, etc)**____.__"

It is considered a "sale" even if you are walking around and don't set up a table.

There are two reasons we need to enforce this: 1. We have been given permission by the management of each site to be in a certain location. They have not given us permission to be elsewhere on the property. We are guests at these businesses and we need to restrict our presence to those places where the management tells us we can be. That means at the actual booths and nowhere else. 2. It is not fair to those troops who have been assigned the actual booth space; it hurts their sales and can be really discouraging to the girls.

You must share this information with any parent volunteers that are helping oversee your booth sales...this has already started to happen and I want to nip it in the bud. On the receiving end, if you are at an assigned booth and you see other Girl Scouts selling on premises, it is within your rights to ask them (politely!) to sell off-premises instead.

I hate to sound like a school marm, but I want to make sure that every troop is on an even playing field. Thank you everyone for your hard work, so far we're doing great!

Best, Maggie