'A game of Jenga': How Girl Scout cookies make their way around Hampton Roads
February 23, 2026
It was 4 a.m. on a recent Saturday when the first volunteers arrived at the Tidewater Community College campus in Virginia Beach to begin unloading pallets of Girl Scout cookies from moving trucks.
By 7 a.m., others arrived to begin ripping the boxes of Thin Mints and Do-si-dos out of shrink wrap and placing them into more manageable stacks in four drive-thru lanes. It’s like a game of Jenga, some volunteers joked.
It was the annual Cookie Count ‘n’ Go distribution, the logistical feat held in Virginia Beach, Suffolk and Hampton to get tens of thousands of cookies to local troops for delivery or sale at a booth.
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