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London Drugs also selling Girl Guides’ cookies during COVID-19

London Drugs' 82 stores across western Canada will have cookies for sale
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(via Girl Guides of Canada/London Drugs)

London Drugs will be another location you can find your Girl Guides cookies during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is restricting the organization's usual sales.

The company announced on Wednesday (March 25) that, as of that afternoon, the cookies would be available at stores in the lower mainland while other stores out of 82 across western Canada will soon also seem them on the shelves. 

Customers can also order online

Each year, Girl Guides sell cookies as a major fundraiser campaign, which supports programs that offer girls and young women opportunities to develop confidence and life skills.

You usually will spot the girls outside of retail stores or knocking on your door, but due to social distancing, they can't do those activities. 

“Since 1927, Girl Guides have been going door-to-door selling cookies to support our wide range of programs for girls and young women in our communities,” BC Provincial Commissioner for Girl Guides of Canada Diamond Isinger said in a news release.

“With physical distancing being so critical in Canada right now, we know door-to-door and public sales are not an option at this time, and we need to get creative. London Drugs has come forward with the offer to provide significant logistical support to safely get our cookies into the homes of British Columbians and we couldn’t be more grateful.”

Save-On-Foods announced yesterday it would be the second store to take part in selling the cookies.

“Most families have had connections to Girl Guides at some point in their lives,” London Drugs President and Chief Operating Officer Clint Mahlman adds in the release. 

“And certainly, all Canadians have enjoyed Girl Guide cookies and supporting their important programs. During this time of great change and chaos thrown into how businesses, non-profits, on how all of us work and live, if we can find new ways to support each other, then this is a bright light during a time that is shrouded in grey.”

All of the sales will go directly to the Girl Guides of Canada with London Drugs simply providing a safe distribution network. 

“Thousands of Girl Guides are staying home for everyone's health and safety, while looking at their boxes of cookies and wondering how they can get them sold to support their empowering Guiding activities when in-person programs can resume,” Isinger added.

“It is such welcome news knowing we have a business that is stepping up to help us find a solution.”

The store had picked up 1,000 cases on March 25 (12,000 boxes) for the lower mainland. 

The company says it'll be working with the Girl Guides of Canada to find routes from other hubs and warehouses to get the cookies on store shelves across Western Canada.