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No more Twinkies
ackblom12:
Oh please, the deals they were offering the workers were not anything nearing acceptable. All this really did was make this happen maybe a couple of years earlier than it would have anyways and with fewer bonuses to the execs. Shit result, yes, but I'm not going to blame this one on the Teamsters.
jwhouk:
UPDATE: Local Wal-Mart is completely OUT of Twinkies, Ho-Ho's, Ding-Dongs and Suzy-Q's. Only thing left is muffins.
Layoffs for the local distributors - who probably saw this coming a long time ago.
A thought about this - what will this do to "knock-off" generics, like Wal-Mart's Great Value brands?
Papersatan:
gonna just put this out there. Swiss cake rolls are better than ho-ho's (were?) anyways.
Carl-E:
Anyone who believes that there isn't some bakery out there that's going to buy these names (and recipes) and take up their manufacture doesn't understand the term "liquidation".
And it wasn't the teamsters - they'd settled on a rotten deal two weeks ago. It was the baker's union. The company was offering over 30 percent cuts in pay and benefits just to keep your job... and we're climbing out of a recession?
Blue Kitty:
Hostess has been pretty bad for years
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