--- title: Girl Scouts Cookies: Price Goes Up description: The price of Girl Scouts cookies is going up this year. Fans of Thin Mints, Samoas and Tagalongs will have to pay $5 a box in some places canonical: https://time.com/4102560/girl-scout-cookies-price/ author: Mark Rivett-Carnac article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-06T08:55:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:40.828Z og:title: Girl Scout Cookies Are About to Get More Expensive og:description: And people aren't happy about it. og:url: https://time.com/4102560/girl-scout-cookies-price/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01f42eddc9a7f4a9/69886fe5524fc08663df55b4/gettyimages-160975415.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Girl Scouts Sell Cookies From Street Trucks In New York City og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Girl Scout Cookies Are About to Get More Expensive twitter:description: And people aren't happy about it. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01f42eddc9a7f4a9/69886fe5524fc08663df55b4/gettyimages-160975415.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Girl Scout Cookies Are About to Get More Expensive ## Video: The Business of Creativity: The Chocolate Makers [Watch (HLS stream): The Business of Creativity: The Chocolate Makers](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DhKufoJq.m3u8) (4:13)  _Published 2012-12-27. The Mast brothers followed their passion for chocolate to create a growing artisan business in Brooklyn, NY_ by [Mark Rivett-Carnac](https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/) ## Mark Rivett-Carnac Nov 6, 2015 8:55 AM UTC  Girl Scouts sell cookies as a winter storm moves in on Feb. 8, 2013, in New York City Girl Scouts sell cookies as a winter storm moves in on Feb. 8, 2013, in New York CityJohn Moore—Getty Images by [Mark Rivett-Carnac](https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/) ## Mark Rivett-Carnac Nov 6, 2015 8:55 AM UTC The price of Girl Scouts cookies is [going up](http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/03/girl-scout-cookie-prices-jumping-to-5-here.html) this year. Fans of Thin Mints, Samoas and Tagalongs will have to pay $5 a box in some neighborhoods, instead of the previous $4. Ultimately, each of the Girl Scouts’ 112 local councils will set prices individually, but some units in Massachusetts and California have confirmed the rise, CNBC reports. Social media has already lamented the 25% price hike. Knowing that Girl Scouts units sell the iconic cookies to fund their activities and [charities](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7quMYfJ00Fs) might make the news a little easier to swallow. \[[_CNBC_](http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/03/girl-scout-cookie-prices-jumping-to-5-here.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4102560/girl-scout-cookies-price/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4102560/girl-scout-cookies-price/"},"headline":"Girl Scout Cookies Are About to Get More Expensive","datePublished":"2015-11-06T08:55:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:40.828Z","description":"And people aren't happy about it","url":"https://time.com/4102560/girl-scout-cookies-price/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society","cookies","Girl Scouts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01f42eddc9a7f4a9/69886fe5524fc08663df55b4/gettyimages-160975415.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mark Rivett-Carnac","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/mark-rivett-carnac/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01f42eddc9a7f4a9/69886fe5524fc08663df55b4/gettyimages-160975415.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Girl Scouts Sell Cookies From Street Trucks In New York City","caption":"Girl Scouts Sell Cookies From Street Trucks In New York City","creditText":"John Moore—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4102560/girl-scout-cookies-price/","name":"Girl Scout Cookies Are About to Get More Expensive"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Business of Creativity: The Chocolate Makers","description":"The Mast brothers followed their passion for chocolate to create a growing artisan business in Brooklyn, NY","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/DhKufoJq/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2012-12-27T17:39:31.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/DhKufoJq.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4102560/girl-scout-cookies-price/","duration":"PT4M13S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4102560/girl-scout-cookies-price/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```