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Competition is so outta whack that businesses have Stopped taking requests from Certain Troops, It had reached a point where Certain Troops had reserved all weekend slots a year in advance and reserved all of September and October Available days. Locally Walmart only allows 1 Group and Only Allows Fund Raisers on Saturday and Sundays. Lowes Only Allows 1 Group at Entrances only No Exits

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Competition is so outta whack that businesses have Stopped taking requests from Certain Troops, It had reached a point where Certain Troops had reserved all weekend slots a year in advance and reserved all of September and October Available days. Locally Walmart only allows 1 Group and Only Allows Fund Raisers on Saturday and Sundays. Lowes Only Allows 1 Group at Entrances only No Exits
That is why we have pre sell scheduling at the favorite locations. No troop can set up their own at any of those sites on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday during the selling period. The management there is assured there should be no issues, and if there are, they have a contact to call. Since we started this, there have very few conflicts, other than one year having to deal with some church group who just came on the site at Lowes. Store front is hit and miss anyway, depending on what is happening in the area, and the weather. Cubs always do better, because they have the "cute" factor, as well as more overall enthusiasm. Older boys are not that into it; they just do it because they are asked most of the time, and some opt out anyway. We are considering doing only personal sales this year.
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We do the prize list put out by council (we would only get 3% back if we opt-ed out and you can't get a BSA knife for $3.75, which is at the $125 prize level).

 

We also do pack incentives too since the kids actually make more money at show and sells due to donations that are not counted towards council prizes, so we try to reward the kids for that as well by offering pack prizes that take into account everything they sell + donations they receive.

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