DEARBORN, Mich. – Jennifer Sharpe knows how to sell Girl Scout cookies. She sold them to friends. She sold them to strangers. She even persuaded her orthodontist to buy the popular sweet treats.

And now, with 17,323 boxes sold under her name, the 15-year-old Dearborn girl is believed to have sold more cookies in a single season than anyone in the U.S. ever has, according to Girl Scout officials who've planned a ceremony in her honor today.

Jennifer, a fan of the Thin Mints, used a retail-inspired strategy. She set up shop in a church parking lot from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday. On Sundays, she sold cookies outside an auto parts store from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

"When I was young, I knocked on doors," said Jennifer, in her 10th year of Scouting. "Now that I'm older, I get too many rejections face to face. People don't want to buy from a 15-year-old."

Some have accused her of cheating because her mother, Pam, sold cookies when Jennifer was at school. But Clare Coughlin, director of product sales for the Girl Scout of Metro Detroit, said there are no rules against that.

Detroit Free Press

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