Bad news for breakfast cereal
- Thread starter Charlie Marlow_rivals363743
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Theeeeeyyyyyyy'rrrreeeeee BUENO!My Frosted Flakes are going to be made in Mexico now?
- Antonio El Tigre
In the 1890s, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his brother, W.K. Kellogg, invented their signature Corn Flakes cereal in Battle Creek, Michigan. Dr. Kellogg was a devout Seventh-day Adventist who advocated against any form of sexual activity, while also promoting a vegetarian diet, leading to experimentation with grains. Dr. Kellogg also ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium — a world-famous medical wellness spa where his patients stuck to diets of all bland foods.
What royally sucks is the high paying jobs that will go away here when that happens. I was engaged to a chick several years back who worked there and gawd damn do they pay well. Yes they work you to death, but they paid you for it. She was making $125(ish) ...downside is she'd go 3 weeks straight without a day off but there aren't to many jobs you can make that at...and it didn't require a degree.
I don't know why they closed and don't care enough to research it, but I know their employees like to hold the plant hostage with strikes every once and a while...cannot help but wonder if that had sumthin to do with it. Pretty sure, if I remember correctly, they were unionized, which i'm also pretty sure didn't help their cause.
Regardless, that sucks for them and Omaha.
I don't know why they closed and don't care enough to research it, but I know their employees like to hold the plant hostage with strikes every once and a while...cannot help but wonder if that had sumthin to do with it. Pretty sure, if I remember correctly, they were unionized, which i'm also pretty sure didn't help their cause.
Regardless, that sucks for them and Omaha.
Congratulations union bosses. I’m sure your donations to the leftists will help your soon to be unemployed members. Good thing you squeezed every drop you could out of them.
Nice that you could inject your usual knee-jerk rant, but Kellogg's is shifting production to Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ontario, where big labor surely holds more sway than in Omaha.
Once upon a time, it made sense to produce cereal close to where your raw material was located. Now it's easier to concentrate production closer to where your finished products are distributed and consumed. I'm guessing that's exactly what Kellogg's is doing, and that whatever labor headaches they have to deal with are not being eased in the slightest.
It does not help that there has been a significant decline in demand for cereal for the past 2 years, and increased competition from cheaper store brands.
That's a good point as well. People are looking for ways to trim their grocery bills and store brands have benefited. I don't eat a ton of cereal, but enough to notice that name-brand cereals are one product category that is absolutely never, ever on sale.
I most definitely buy the store brand whenever possible. I'm not going to pay six plus dollars a box. That's for the more affluent members of our board!
Apps like Ibota can help with online coupons for name brands but still way more expensive than store brands.
A former player of mine did a summer there as a college kid and think he said was making $1500-1700/week there, three years ago. Was just working on the floor. Crazy busy work but paid damn well.
A sexually repressed vegetarian cultist invented the world’s most popular breakfast cereal brand… The lord definitely works in mysterious ways.
Not true. But, when on sale, they are still significantly higher than the store brands at regular price, so why bother?
Damn straight. Gotta earmark that cash to cupped pepperoni , fresh romano and basil instead.
How'd you know that I bought a new wedge of Romano?
Don’t tell that one member that you bought it from Wal-Mart. Winking
I do know that the local steam fitters union worked there for many many years.. lot's of overtime and very good pay for those with little or no education past high school. I was told stories how they were paid buku money to put in a bunch of piping and stuff, only to turn right around and tear it all back out and put in something different to suit the whims of Kellogg's management.
Well that sucks. Hard to keep jobs here.
How is it that Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas can put tolls on an interstate and Nebraska can't on I 80?
I had to talk with Kansas about paying a toll there and asked how their state taxes were low and she said that the tolls paid for the states road maintenance. So I guess that is how they have a lower state tax.
Just thinking maybe lower state taxes could attract more employers.
My brother in law is going to lose his job at Kelloggs apparently.
How is it that Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas can put tolls on an interstate and Nebraska can't on I 80?
I had to talk with Kansas about paying a toll there and asked how their state taxes were low and she said that the tolls paid for the states road maintenance. So I guess that is how they have a lower state tax.
Just thinking maybe lower state taxes could attract more employers.
My brother in law is going to lose his job at Kelloggs apparently.
Every time I’d drive buy would bring back memories of my dad telling me that was the smell of Corn Pops being made that day.
Tolls on travel is the only fair tax. Unless you use a green overweight vehicle on the roads. Then you are exempt from tolls and taxes and are subsidized.
The only time I'm buying name brand cereal is when it's on sale in the largest size and reasonably close price wise to the store brand. Here in Vegas, I went to get cereal this morning, since my Dad is visiting soon, and happened to see the regular price for the 'giant size' box of Life Cereal, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Frosted Mini Wheats were $7.99 a piece. That's one box and with shrinkflation, it's maybe 6-7 bowls of cereal (if you're lucky) filled to maybe 3/4 the size of a bowl. I skipped instead and will check again next week.
Fingers crossed they move that Cargill plant out Blair. Really reaks at times.
So when Dad comes with a gallon of milk for his cereal what will you serve him? Toast, milk and cinnamon?
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40 some years ago I worked for a mechanical contractor on a water treatment plant in Blair. We drove an hour to get there every day. The last time I was in Blair the Cargill plant was almost finished.
The ONLY thing I always buy and it has to be name brand is Doritos.
Anything else, give me the generic stuff every freaking time...even rubbers!
Trojans? **** that...I buy NOTHING but Private First Class Santiagos.
There ya go plebes. More cereal for dinner…
For 30 years we've had an egg, homemade waffle, yogurt, oj and coffee. We're not much on cereal.
I feel like Doritos are a scam. They’re like 5 and a half bucks a bag at the store, but then they’re on special at $2.99, but only if you buy three bags. So the question becomes, is the store losing money at $2.99 a bag? Doubtful. Are they marking them up 100% the rest of the time? Who on here has access to wholesale pricing for snack chips? I’m really curious about this.
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probably a vendor sponsored sale. Meaning Doritos will give Hyvee a kickback for selling three at a time
100% agree ont he pricing scam
But they are THE best chip in my opinion. So it is the one thing I get name brand
My guess, when it comes to your example, it is all about shelf space during that sale.
Hy-Vee and other stores bank on you purchasing other items to make up the difference. Smart shoppers see through it and only purchase the sale items.