Girl Scouts stock up for cookie season in the Inland Empire

James Hill, left, and Dan McDowell prepare cases of Thin Mints for loading into vehicles at the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio鈥檚 “mega drop” distribution event on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, at Burgess Moving and Storage in Riverside. (Photo by Nick Koon, Contributing Photographer)

UPDATED: January 27, 2024 at 3:12 p.m.

It was cookie distribution day Saturday, Jan. 27, for the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio.

More than 1.3 million boxes of Girls Scout Cookies were to be delivered to troops and scouts throughout Riverside and San Bernardino counties, during the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio annual “mega drop.”

Volunteers load a U-Haul trailer with cases of cookies on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, during the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio’s “mega drop” event at Burgess Moving and Storage in Riverside. Three other sites in the Inland Empire also hosted a distribution event on Saturday. (Photo by Nick Koon, Contributing Photographer)

Edgar Torres of Troop 2020 checks in with Heather Murphy, senior director of external communications for Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio, on Saturday morning, Jan. 27, 2024, in Riverside. The Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio had four sites set up throughout Riverside and San Bernardino counties during its “mega drop” event on Saturday, including at Burgess Moving and Storage. (Photo by Nick Koon, Contributing Photographer)

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Locations in Riverside, Lake Elsinore, Apple Valley and Palm Desert hosted the annual distribution events. Council staff and volunteers loaded orders into vehicles at each site, which, a Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio news release says, is a quick way to get the “cookies from the baker to local Girl Scouts.”

Girl Scout Cookie selling season kicks off Sunday, Jan. 28.

“During the annual cookie sale, Girl Scouts hone their skills as owners and operators of a cookie business,” according to the release. The sales method “allows each girl to define her success in her own way.”