The Southern Arizona Girl Scouts sold 934,104 boxes of cookies this year, including 31,293 to send overseas to military service men and women.
Pima County’s top seller this year was 9-year-old Brianna “Bri” Ahmad of Troop No. 2981, who sold 6,116 boxes, nearly 2,000 boxes more than the second most successful seller.
Bri did it by “working hard, selling every day and treating it like a mini-business,” says her mom, Nichole Ahmad. “She was professional and she made relationships with a lot of businesspeople in town” who bought cookies from her this year and last.
“She’s a chill kid, laid back, but when it comes to wanting to be at the top of her class, or to be the top cookie seller, she’s competitive,” the mother added, chuckling.
Bri, who is home-schooled and wants to be a veterinarian, says prizes are one motivation — she won a GoPro, an iPad and Taylor Swift concert tickets from the Girl Scouts, among other rewards.
Her sales goal for next year? Seven thousand boxes of cookies in seven weeks.
