Hershey moving Peppermint Pattie plant from Pa to Mexico.

[BrklynLiberal]

I find this very, very sad.....

Hershey closing Peppermint Patties plant in Pa.

A flag is flying at half-staff outside The Hershey Co. plant in Reading where production of York Peppermint Patties is ending.

After 23 years in Reading, the chocolate maker is closing the plant Friday and moving production to a new factory it has built in Monterey, Mexico. It will mean the loss of 300 jobs in the southeastern Pennsylvania city.

The plant also makes 5th Avenue and Zagnut candy bars and Jolly Rancher hard candies.

The nation's largest candy manufacturer said two years ago the plant would close as part of a wider move by Hershey to eliminate 1,500 jobs and one-third of its existing production lines, shifting more manufacturing to contractors in the U.S.

Some workers will stay on for a few weeks to close the plant.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D96FDTH81.htm

[LakeSamish706]

1. I suppose they want some bailout money for help with that too! n/t

[Laelth]

2. No more peppermint patties for me.

Evil capitalists ...

:mad:

-Laelth

[nc4bo]

7. Same here, I'm done. Too bad as I always loved eating peppermint patties. nt

[JeffR]

10. Me too.

I'm going to miss them.

[ogneopasno]

3. Fuck Hershey. Just fuck 'em. I haven't bought anything Hershey since they started moving stuff to

Mexico a couple years ago. This is absolute garbage and I'm sick of it.

[otohara]

4. Boo Hershey

one more US corp to boycott

[JuniperLea]

5. Hershey is on my personal boycott list...

I never thought I'd see the day.

I think it's time to go on a full-blown, made in USA only jag for quite a while... I'm tired of the world trying to poison me, and defenseless babies and animals!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

6. Are they renaming it "Tijuana Peppermint Patty" too?

Truth in advertising and such.

[KamaAina]

14. "Nueva York Peppermint Patty" would do nicely.

!Consiga la sensacion! :P

[Sherman A1]

8. Send them an email

I just did telling them that I will buy no more of their products.


https://www.hersheys.com/contactus/contact-form.asp

[DevonRex]

9. No more Hershey's for me. nt

[Semi_subversive]

11. I gave up Reese's Peanut butter Cups

when they shut down the plant in Oakdale, CA and moved operations to Mexico. Now there are some more sweets I'll never buy again.

[KansDem]

17. Switch to Paul Newman's brand...

Organic, from fair-traded producers. No forced labor. And a portion of the proceeds go to progressive causes.

http://www.newmansownorganics.com/index.html

A little more expensive, but well worth it! :hi:


mmmmmmmm...:9

[Semi_subversive]

21. Thanks. I'll look for them

[KansDem]

12. Do they still have toll-house morsel-shaped streetlights there in Hershey?

Why, they sure so. I wonder how long these will last...

[SPedigrees]

13. The altruistic founder of Hershey's chocolates...

must be turning in his grave, (along with Sam Walton.) Milton Hershey built a whole town complete with recreational facilities for his workers.

[CreekDog]

15. Thats sure to make somebody sad

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

20. With new hardhat...

[Captain Hilts]

16. No more Hershey for me. nt

[elocs]

18. I heard about that here last week when the story first broke.

Funny, I was just telling a friend about it this afternoon.

[Ilsa]

19. No more York P.P. for me. It's easy to give up crappy chocolate like Hershey's. nt