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Girl Scout cookie's variable prices prompt selling wars.
Byline: Don Steinberg
PHILADELPHIA _ The latest lesson in regional economics and free trade comes courtesy of the Girl Scouts of the USA.
In offices across the nation, there is confusion, suspicion and finger-pointing about the price of a box of cookies. Or, more accurately, about the varying prices.
The guy in payroll is selling his Girl Scout Cookies for $3.50. The account manager across the hall is asking just $3 for hers. What's wrong with this picture?
OK, there are no actual Girl Scouts in sight, but what else?
It turns out there has never been a standard national price for Girl Scout Cookies. Each local council _ there are 315 in America _ sets its own street price, after ...
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