Original Hershey Chocolate Factory Set To Close

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by JAMIE TARABAY


October 6, 2010
Imagine Google wrapped in chocolate.

What the Internet giant is to its employees today — the extra benefits, the comfy workspace — Hershey was a hundred years ago.

A theme park, a theater, low-rent housing and cheap public transportation were all things Milton Hershey brought to the dairy region of Pennsylvania when he created Hershey, the chocolate center of America.

At the heart of the town was the chocolate factory, a brown brick building nestled in the shadows of two smokestacks, where cocoa goodness wafted out into streets and homes.

That factory on the corner of Chocolate and Cocoa avenues, however, will soon be closing, and the chocolate making will move to another facility being built just outside the town.

The Hershey Co. says it needs to close the historic factory, and cut 500 jobs, to remain competitive in the global market.

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[hobbit709]

1. Hershey's doesn't make chocolate anymore, just chocolate-flavored crap.

[Sinistrous]

3. That is hardly true, but

enjoy your opinion.

[hobbit709]

15. check out how much actual cocoa butter is in a Hershey bar

compared to a decent chocolate bar,

[Sinistrous]

22. Whatever.

[hobbit709]

23. You wouldn't say that if you ever had REAL chocolate.

On a scale of 1 to 10 I put Hershey's at about 0.05.

They can't even sell Hershey's as chocolate in Switzerland because it doesn't meet the minimum requirements under Swiss law to be called chocolate.

[JCMach1]

25. Hmmm... My Swiss friend always asked me to bring him some because it is different

and good in its own right...

[Kalyke]

2. To remain competitive in the global market, they need to

employ Americans so they can earn a living to buy... chocolate.

:eyes:

[Brickbat]

4. Wait, there's an error in the story...let me fix it for you.

The Hershey Co. says it needs to close the historic factory, and cut 500 jobs, to remain competitive in the global market keep its profit margin at whatever inflated level the bigwigs think is sustainable for the next six months.

There, that's better.

[edhopper]

7. Before you open your mouth

you should check the facts.
Hershey's majority shareholder is the Hershey Charitable Trust, A philanthropic organization that mainly benefits children. Including the Hershey School.

[Brickbat]

13. You know, if they had kept the good-paying union jobs in that town and stopped laying people off,

they probably wouldn't have to do so much charity work.

[Romulox]

16. So...they are laying off workers and outsourcing...for charity?

:eyes:

[Klukie]

14. +1000000

[cbdo2007]

5. Well, nothing lasts forever.

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Greed does, apparently.

[edhopper]

9. See response #7

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. I wasn't specifically targeting Hershey corp.

:shrug: Though 500 jobs lost might effect a few children.

[cbdo2007]

19. I don't think they're allowed to employ children anymore.

[Romulox]

8. Who buys Hershey's chocolate? It's god-awful stuff. nt

[edhopper]

10. Me, I love

Reece's Peanut Butter Cups

[Romulox]

12. Did you ever notice that you've never had a peanut that tasted anything like the insides

of one of those things?

At the risk of being boorish, I'd say both the chocolate and the "peanut butter" in those things is wretched. Try one of these and tell me you'd happily pick up the Reeses!

[Dappleganger]

18. Those are awesome and World Market carries them.

In order to get certain meds down (and stay down) I regularly eat small bites of chocolate to prevent gagging. Our exchange students went straight for these and Lion (?) so they were fun to try. We were happy to see that World Market keeps a great supply of these and many other kinds of good chocolate.

[Romulox]

21. Wow. I'm glad something so small can give you a bit of comfort.

Please be well! :hug:

[Dappleganger]

24. Thanks...

:hi:

[cbdo2007]

20. Americans - we prefer quantity over quality (obviously)

[rurallib]

11. I thought they had moved much of their operation to Mexico

a year or two ago.
Glad to hear that is not true.