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Hershey plant to kiss Oakdale goodbye (Muchos Besos!)
LA Times ^
| 5/31/07
| Steve Chawkins, Times Staff Writer
Posted on 05/31/2007 9:40:33 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl
Who is their American competitor?
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:44:36 AM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: BurbankKarl
More like... “Besa me p!nga.”
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:45:02 AM PDT
by
johnny7
("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
To: BurbankKarl
Score another win for the US sugar lobby. US confectioners are fleeing to Canada and Mexico in droves because the cost of sugar in the USA is absurd.
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:46:08 AM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
To: BurbankKarl
For 40 years, voting for democrats is what got us here. Recently however, its been the republicans support in destroying American business by forcing them out of the country by regulation, tax burden and social burdens.
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:46:16 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
To: BurbankKarl
well no more hershey choclate for me then. I really don’t like choclate blended with salmonela and ecoli.
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:46:33 AM PDT
by
utherdoul
To: BurbankKarl
Makes sense, that is where the Spanish found the coastal inhabitants of Yucatan drinking a liquid call “chakolada”.
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:46:40 AM PDT
by
GreyFriar
( 3rd Armored Division - Spearhead)
To: BurbankKarl
Cool. If they want to use slave labor, I won’t buy any of their products.
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:47:45 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: kinoxi
This plant had a nasty industrial accident last year, there was a thread about it. Further down the article they state they are leaving because sugar prices are double in the US than what they are in Mexico (due to subsidies), labor is 10% of what they pay in CA...and you know their workmens compensation bills skyrocketed.
Of course, even with all those costs savings, and trucks from Mexico delivering to most of Southern Californa, do you really expect the price of one of those skinnier Hershey bars to drop? No Way!
To: BurbankKarl
I recommend...
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:48:05 AM PDT
by
TChris
(The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
To: BurbankKarl
-now I have to give up chocolate? sad day
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:48:14 AM PDT
by
tioga
(Fred Thompson for President.)
To: ca centered
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:48:23 AM PDT
by
truthkeeper
(It's the borders, stupid.)
To: kinoxi
Who is their American competitor? Mars among others. But I think they're shipping a lot of production overseas. The protective tariff on suger imports is responsible for a lot of it, along with cheaper wages overseas.
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:48:26 AM PDT
by
Non-Sequitur
(Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
To: BurbankKarl
By 2010, Hershey says, the moves will save shareholders as much as $190 million annually.Yeh, till Mexico nationilizes their plant and kicks them out.
It's gonna take a heck of a lot more then that......then.
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:49:40 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: Non-Sequitur
Thanks. I appreciate the quick answer to my query.
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:50:26 AM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: BurbankKarl
“Some 3,000 of Hershey’s 13,000 workers will lose their jobs,... By 2010, Hershey says, the moves will save shareholders as much as $190 million annually.”
$60,000 per employee?
Do Mexicans work for free?
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:51:46 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: BurbankKarl
So they are changing the name of the candy to Hershey’s Besos?
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:52:51 AM PDT
by
DemEater
To: truthkeeper
New World Order at your service. NWO= greed
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:53:48 AM PDT
by
ca centered
(should I dye my mustache black?)
To: kinoxi
In the US chocolate market ($13B annually) Mars and Hershey have 2/3 of it (combined) FYI.
I only use Hershey chocolate chips for pancakes, coookies, etc. milk chocolate so kick a$$ over semi-sweet (/rant)
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:56:25 AM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(I buy gas for my SUV with the Carbon Offsets I sell on Ebay!)
To: TChris
M&MMars; another global corporation, where's the difference?
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:56:36 AM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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