PrecisionmachinisT wrote:
"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:16:25 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

PrecisionmachinisT wrote:
Destroyed by bad management and the inability to develop new
products that the market wants. Unions had nothing to do with
the downfall of Hostess.

Other than the refusal to go back to work, so they could fill
their contracted customers.
Between the stockholders wanting extreme profits and the union
pricing the obsolete products out of sight, the market dwindled.
The union strike was the last straw. Like I said, I hope the
states deny any of them unemployment benefits because they walked
off the job. They quit. **** 'EM! Let the union pay them until
they find burgerflip jobs.


You're ignoring simple drop off in consumer demand.

SEE

Buggy whips



WHAT DROP? The sales of Twinkies had gone up every year till 2011 when
they had a 2% drop (they sold "ONLY" 36 MILLION cases)

Oh and as proof that it is not WHAT you eat but how much you eat (IE
Lack of self control)

In 2010 a college professor named Mark Haub went on a "convenience
store" diet consisting mainly of Twinkies, Oreos, and Doritos in an
attempt to demonstrate to his students "that in weight loss, pure
calorie counting is what matters most—not the nutritional value of the
food". He lost 27 pounds over a 2-month period, returning his body mass
index (BMI) to within normal range.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08...sor/index.html

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Steve W.