Meet the 2025 Top Cookie Seller: JAaliyah
JAaliyah was GSTF’s top 2025 cookie seller. She shared more about how she sold the thousands of cookies that helped get her to the top.
What level of Girl Scouting are you in, and what neighborhood do you call home?
I’m a third year Cadette and “The Neighborhood Cookie dealer of Liberty City” as my customers named me.
How did you sell 7,200+ boxes to become the 2025 Top Cookie Seller?
To be exact, I sold 7,256 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. This cookie season I created my very own cookie store “JAaliyah’s Girl Scout Shoppe” with the help of my cookie crew, my family. Making lots of flyers, a commercial to promote my cookie business and turning my mom‘s car into my personal cookie delivery vehicle. I sold cookies every day in school during lunch to my peers and teachers, opened my cookie store everyday afterschool all while balancing a bunch of homework. When sales started to decrease at my cookie store for the very first time ever since being a Girl Scout, I sold cookies at Publix whenever a booth would be available on Sunday evenings.
You also were the year’s Top Hometown Heroes Cookie Seller. How did you sell those cookies too?
I used the price increase as an advantage, for example, if someone purchased three boxes of cookies, I would ask if they would like to donate their $2.00 change to our local Hometown Heroes. At the end of cookie season, it all added up. This year I also had two special customers who donated towards Hometown Heroes to help me get closer to my goal.
What’s your favorite Girl Scout cookie?
Well Girl Scout S’mores will forever be my favorite, but I also like Adventurefuls.
What lessons have you learned selling Girl Scout cookies?
You must keep all flavors on hand to keep your customers happy.
Hard work and dedication always pay off.
What advice do you have for your sister Girl Scouts when setting up their cookie business?
“BE ORIGINAL” – build support from your community, set a goal for your business and never go anywhere without cookies doing Girl Scout cookie season you never know who may be your next customer.
What’s your favorite Girl Scout memory?
Finally, being able to go to Savannah, Georgia with my Girl Scout sisters.
What’s your favorite thing to do with your troop?
Working on new badges, traveling and go camping.
If there was one thing you could do to make Miami a better place to live, what would it be?
I would like to start an empowering teen organization, providing teenagers with health resources and hygiene supplies, improving the health wellbeing of future generations.
