No more excuses -- Girl Scouts now accept credit cards

Source: Los Angeles Times

When Girl Scout cookie season starts up in your neighborhood, those earnest young saleswomen bearing boxes of sweets may be armed with a new secret weapon: a mobile credit-card reader attached to their smartphones.

That's right people. The Girl Scouts have firmly entered the digital age, and our waistlines may never recover.

Think of the implications: Before, if you saw a tempting table laden with Samoas and Thin Mints outside the grocery store, being low on cash could prevent you from buying a box or two, or five, or 10.

Not anymore.

"Now every time someone says, 'Oh, I don't have cash' or 'I don't have a check,' we've got you!" said Kenya Yarbrough, director of Marketing for Girl Scouts Greater L.A.

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