Dear Girl Scouts & App Developers

Posted by on Feb 27, 2010 in Rants, Social Media, Technology | 4 comments

It’s that time of year again. The Girl Scouts are at your local grocery store learning the fine art of salesmanship. As you enter and as you leave, you’re greeted by the eager young ladies pushing the good stuff – cookies.

Over the last few weeks, my (very pregnant) wife has been telling me to get her some of her favorite girl scout cookies; Samoas – or Carmel Delights, as they were once known. Since I don’t make it point to go to the grocery store every day, we waited till the weekend to do a little shopping with the ulterior motive being; find us some Samoas!

I took to Twitter and Facebook before venturing out to 10 different places that had some girl scouts posted in the front. No luck there, unfortunately. Luckily, Dreyer’s also makes limited edition flavor of, you guessed it – Samoa!

This brings me to my plea to both Girl Scouts of America and all you awesome Application Developers – I’m a Mac, so iPhone in this case.

I would love an App that allows Girl Scout Troops to ‘check-in’ – much like FourSquare – and then the app itself plots their location and you, as the user can search based on your location. This would be a great tool during this time of year to help frustrated husbands, fearing for their lives, find girl scout cookies on-the-fly.

What do you think? Can this magic I speak of become reality? I sure hope so. And, if it happens..I sure hope I get a little credit :D

Photo by: Rex Roof

  • http://www.GaryKnows.com Gary T Murphy

    Just as long as some freak doesn't try and snatch one of the girl scouts using your app as his gps…

    Ya know I've always said that Girl Scouts are the best sales people around… why? Because they ask for the order [with the cutest voice and smile] — it's hard to say NO! Even if you say NO walking into the store, they ask you AGAIN when you're leaving… smart. Works on me!

    PS They were at HEB/Bunker Hill exit – yesterday…

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/mayhemchaos mayhemchaos

      That's pretty much the inherent with social media apps like 4sq and my proposed girl scout app. Luckily, the girl scouts have a mom's and dad's with them and are supervised.

      I'd have to agree that they're pretty charming salespeople. I can turn down some random dude trying to convince me I need meat off the back of his truck (true story) – but a cute little voice saying it's for a good cause and she needs some merit badges – d'oh! Plus – my wife is pregnant, so I have little choice :) Thanks for stopping by Gary!

  • http://rexroof.com/ Rex

    just make your own! cookies, that is.

    • http://intensedebate.com/people/mayhemchaos Sal Baldovinos

      Where's the fun in that, besides spending time with your family and making delicious cookies to share that night? :) My wife just loves the (official) cookies I guess. Thanks for stopping by Rex