Girl Scouts Get Tough

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David A. Szwak
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Girl Scouts Get Tough

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Cookie Dough

A word to Thin Mint lovers: Girl Scouts are stepping up their efforts to make cookie deadbeats pay up. OldDebts.com, a debt collector, has been hired to send 2,000 letters in one Midwestern state alone. It won't reveal which state, and the parent organization, Girl Scouts of the USA, says cookie sales are run locally. But it's not the first time Girl Scouts have used enforcers to collect their Samoas. Last year, a Washington group hired an agency to recoup $30,000 it was owed. Girl Scouts may need someone on retainer: Next spring, the average price of a box of cookies could jump as much as 50 cents, to $3.50.

By Jessi Hempel
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