September 23, 2020
Popcorn Sale Materials
Popcorn sales are underway! Need more sale supplies? Sale materials are available at both the Milwaukee Scout Office and
Kenosha Scout Shop. Please note we are out of money envelopes and table tents.
Product Nutritional Info
Popcorn Success Stories
We’d like to start featuring a popcorn sale success story or sale tip each week. Have a popcorn success story, sale idea, sale tip or pictures to share? Please email us at popcorn@ThreeHarborsScouting.org
Pack 206
Aidan with Pack 206 selling at Piggly Wiggly.
Pack 251
From Pack 251 popcorn kernel Jill: We offered a drive-thru popcorn sale at the school/church where our Pack is chartered. Even though it rained most of the first day, we made about the same amount as we made during our Show and Sell the first weekend of the sale. As an added bonus, we sold both wreaths and popcorn.
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Advertise, advertise, advertise! We advertised our sale in the church bulletin, school announcements, community Facebook groups, Pack Facebook page, and NextDoor. In addition to increased traffic, we also made several wreath sales from the community Facebook posts.
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The more Scouts the better. With a drive-thru you lose the personal connection that happens with the traditional Show and Sell, so the more Scouts you have holding signs and advertising the sale the better.
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Have the Scouts make their own signs. As you can see from the pictures, we encouraged the Scouts to come with their own personalized signs (some of the adults made their own signs too). A number of people told us the creativity of our homemade signs made them stop and buy.
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Shorter hours - Having never done this before, we set up shop for an entire day. If we do it again, I'd do it smaller blocks of time (4 hours or less).
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Stay safe - When the Scouts were standing on the road, we put out orange traffic cones separating the Scouts from the road and had the younger Scouts wear yellow safety vests.
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Popcorn Blitz Weekend
Thank-you to all the units and Scouts that participated in Popcorn Blitz Weekend! Winners will be announced in the September 30 issue of the Kernel Journal.
Show and sell returns will be October 24th. Details coming soon.
Online Popcorn Sales
Need to sign-up your Scouts for the online sale? Here is a YouTube video put together by PRP with step by step instructions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIg2dIcBr1Y. Online orders are placed at www.prpopcornstore.com. Product ships free directly to the customer (shipping is available with-in the lower 48 states only). Online popcorn sales run through November 6, 2020. Please note: online store products are different than products on take order forms/door hanger.
Council Bonus Prizes
Council Bonus Prizes (including Pecatonica Winner Circle prizes) are for ALL Scouts, at both 33% and 35% commission. Council Bonus Prizes are based on total retail sales by your Scout. For example, if your Scout sells at least $750 in total retail sales, he/she is eligible for a $75 VISA gift card in addition to the prizes they select from the National BSA prize program. Bonus Prizes are NOT cumulative; Scouts can only earn the prize within the sales level they achieve.
Upcoming Dates
September 18-20 – Popcorn Blitz Weekend
September 22 – Blitz Weekend submissions due by 11:59 p.m.
October 21 – Sale ends
October 23 – Take orders due online in PRP site by 11:59 p.m.
October 24 – Show and sell returns – location TBD
October 24 – Online prize order opens
Popcorn Sale Contacts
Aurora District
Red Arrow District
District Popcorn Kernel TBD
Southern Shores District
District Popcorn Kernel Mary Jackson 414.329.9057
Council Staff