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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.
snippage

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

Cindi

Hershey makes crappy chocolate. If the new company makes good chocolate,
that market is really growing lately. The market for crap chocolate stays
in drugstores.

Hershey is being run by a charitable trust whose main interest is making
money for the trust. IMO people who are only in it fr the money and don't
understand food should not run food companies.

Nestlé bought Perugina some while back and while they have introduced some
premium chocolate choices, they've also grown lax with their day-to-day shop
quality chocolate, to the point where I protested strongly when dark
chocolate I used to make a sauce turned out to have what seemed like paper
in it, and was nuts. Their disclosure "may contain nut residue" was
supposed to placate me. I was never a huge fan of Perugina, but the 500
pound gorilla, Nestlé, like Hershey, wants to keep a big market but cheapen
the product. It's the kind of thing that happens in all areas of food
production and that leads to very bad results in the end. The worst of
these is that people get used to the crap and think it's OK.