If you have been brave enough to venture out to a supermarket during the pandemic, you may have noticed something missing besides toilet paper and hand sanitizer.
Girl Scouts.
It is Girl Scout cookie season. Normally you’d see members of a troop and their moms and other adult volunteers selling Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs and Do-si-dos at booths outside of stores or taking over a vacant lot and trying to attract motorists with signs, uniforms, waves and cheers.
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