by Winnie Hsiu
March 3, 2010 2:21 PM
Girl Scout cookies were delivered this week to Girl Scout troops across the United States. In many counties, local moving and storage companies are an integral part of the Girl Scout cookie delivery infrastructure, as troop leaders with minivans find they are unable to find enough space in their homes or vehicles for thousands of cases of Girl Scout cookies. The following are just a few of the moving and storage companies that have chipped in to support this year's Girl Scout cookie drive:
- Wagoner Moving and Storage, of Canton, in Stark County, Ohio, helped with the moving and storage of more than 298,000 boxes of cookies, CantonRep.com reported on Monday. If all of northeastern Ohio is included, the local Girl Scouts sold more than two million boxes of cookies -- all of which must be stored briefly and then delivered.
- Cord Moving and Storage stored cookies in St. Louis, Missouri, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (at STLToday.com). A parade of minivans lined up to take the cookies to local troops on Monday.
- Piepho Moving and Storage of Rochester, Minnesota, reported on their webpage that they expect to deliver more than 60,000 cases of cookies in southern Minnesota.
- Hall Lane Moving and Storage of Naussau County, New York posted a video on YouTube showing their cookie delivery set up and process.
- Freehold in Jersey reported that Murray & Sons Moving Company in Brick, New Jersey moved 91,000 cases of cookies for local troops in Monmouth and Ocean counties.
- Geiger Moving and Storage moved 415,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in 35,000 cases -- a load that it took eight semitrailers to deliver -- for the Girl Scouts of Raintree Council in Evansville, Indiana, according to the Evansville Courier & Press at Courierpress.com.
- The San Antonio Express-News reported that Armstro
ng Moving & Storage of San Antonio, Texas, is moving nearly one million boxes of Girl Scout cookies this year.
The cookies sold by the Girl Scouts are primarily used to support activities of the local troops. Each troop can decide for itself what it wishes to spend its profits on. Usually troops choose to fund a service project, an educational activity or field trip, or a donation to a local charity.