For Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), there are two cookie baking companies. They are allowed to offer up to 8 varieties but the have to offer Thin Mints®, Peanut Butter Sandwich/Do-si-dos® and Shortbread/Trefoils®.
Any of the five other varieties can be changed each year. Since Samoas®/Caramel deLites® are the second best seller, the cookie companies keep them.
So the other four varieties can be changed. The chocolate chip cookies were sold for a couple of years, then switched so that another kind could be sold.
Girl Scout cookies cost about $0.50 to $1.00 in 1970.
$3.50
Depending on the Girl Scout council, Girl Scouts of the USA cookies cost from $2.00 to $2.50 per box in 1990.
Depending on the price set by the local Girl Scout council, cookies cost approximately $1.25 to $1.50 in 1982.
0.50 cents a box
In the 1920's and 1930's, cookies were made at home by the Girl Scouts and their mothers. The cookies were wrapped in wax paper bags, sealed with a sticker and sold for 25 to 35 cents per dozen.
Each Girl Scout council determines the price of the cookies sold by Girl Scouts in their council. For 2011, most Girl Scout councils are selling cookies for either $3.50 or $4.00 per box. Use the Girl Scout Cookie Finder (see Related Links) to contact your local Girl Scout council to find out the price of their cookies.
In 2010, a "bundle" of Girl Scout cookies contained three boxes, each box cost $4.00, so the bundle cost $12.00.
It depends apx. $3.50
Each case of Girl Scout cookies contains 12 boxes so: 2 x 12 x 3.50 = $84.00
Girl Scout council net revenue is approximately 65–75 percent of the local retail price. This means that 25-35 percent of the price of a box of Girl Scout cookies goes to the cookie baker (about $1.00).
Australia has neither Girl Scouts nor cookies: therefore it does not have Girl Scout cookies. Australia has Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, and biscuits, not cookies (although the American influence means the word cookie is, unfortunately, being used more often.