Girl scouts learn hard-sell for cookies

Girl scouts can attend a pressure-sales seminar in Plymouth, Minnesota to teach them how to use hard sales to move cookie-product.

The scouts, mostly teenagers, learned about "the surly customer," the one who just won't say yes, and the best response to the customers who say they've already bought.

Cookie sellers were coached to appeal to people's patriotism: You don't have to eat the cookies, you can donate them to troops overseas.

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