Cindi - HappyMamatoThree wrote:

On February 1st of this year, Hershey's finished the closure of it's
Oakdale, California plant which eliminated the largest employer in
Oakdale with the loss of 575 jobs. The 575 jobs are now in Monterrey
Mexico. Very nice for Monterrey huh? Oakdale is the home of a very
successful Chocolate Festival in the summer. Luckily, the chocolate
festival will not disappear, mostly because chocolate is a big
industry here in California and the city leaders hoped that
continuing the festival might make the plant more attractive to
another company. Their move was apparently brilliant. A company is
already stepping in to use the Hershey facility and to help fill in
the job blank that Hershey's left.

Sconza Candy is coming to Oakdale to use the same facility and to
reemployee some people that California just can't afford to have
unemployed. Sconza candies are only available in a couple of stores
here in the Modesto/Oakdale area since this company is apparently
originally based in Oakland in the bay area. We will definitely be on
the lookout to support Sconza candies from now on. They will go into
production at this factory in the fall originally with around 100
employees. It was be a Hershey replacement right off the bat, but it
will get there.

Just my little bitch about jobs being outsourced away from
hard-working Americans and endorsement of an American Company.

At least one Mexican food company (Bimbo) now produces some products in
the US (Texas, if I recall correctly.) Not for sale in Mexico, as far
as I know -- for sale to Hispanics in the US.

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