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Hostess files for Chapter 11


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Cameron
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PostPosted: Nov 17 2012 07:24 pm Reply with quote Back to top

It's profoundly depressing that the Wonder Bread stores are going out of business. Where am I going to get cheap and delicious texas toast now? Sad


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LeshLush
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PostPosted: Nov 17 2012 10:26 pm Reply with quote Back to top

And right when all these states just legalized marijuana, too. The timing is so terrible.
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Syd Lexia
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PostPosted: Nov 17 2012 10:30 pm Reply with quote Back to top

How many of you guys have heard of Drake's? They're part of Hostess too.
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Hacker
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PostPosted: Nov 18 2012 12:43 am Reply with quote Back to top

Hey Syd, buy a box of twinkies so in 20 years you can eat a 20 year old twinkie and do an article on it.

If not for the entertainment do it so that pong article will go down



 
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LeshLush
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Location: Nashville, TN
PostPosted: Nov 18 2012 01:36 am Reply with quote Back to top

Man, I just went to three different grocery stores, and all of the hostess products were gone. I guess I wasn't the only one who wanted to send Ding Dong's out in style.


Has anybody here ever eaten a banana twinky? Those things were so delicious. Way better than the original.
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sidewaydriver
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PostPosted: Nov 18 2012 01:39 am Reply with quote Back to top

They're all gone at the grocery stores here too but I managed to stockpile at a few gas stations so you might still get lucky.


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bassguy252
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PostPosted: Nov 18 2012 02:07 am Reply with quote Back to top

Only in America can you legalize Marijuana and then stop making the twinkie

oh the irony


Let's assume it's a mixture of the two!


 
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UsaSatsui
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PostPosted: Nov 18 2012 02:31 am Reply with quote Back to top

Hacker wrote:
Hey Syd, buy a box of twinkies so in 20 years you can eat a 20 year old twinkie and do an article on it.

If not for the entertainment do it so that pong article will go down

Despite popular myth, Twinkies actually have a rather short shelf life, about 25 days (impressive for a baked good, but not really a lifetime supply).
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@om*d
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PostPosted: Nov 18 2012 05:59 am Reply with quote Back to top

Saturday night I sold about two dozen boxes of Twinkies for around 50 bucks each on craigslist. Maybe I should have kept them for a few more days, the price could have gone up even more.


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PostPosted: Nov 18 2012 12:06 pm Reply with quote Back to top

@om*d wrote:
Saturday night I sold about two dozen boxes of Twinkies for around 50 bucks each on craigslist. Maybe I should have kept them for a few more days, the price could have gone up even more.

Haha, you've spun some dopey tales before, but this one takes the cake. Pun intended.


Pretty much the greatest thread of all time: http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14789

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Zinja
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PostPosted: Nov 18 2012 07:17 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I was going to buy some Twinkies today but the store is all sold out of Hostess products. Sad They are selling online for a bit right now, going to see if I can find some cheap ones, but this is ridiculous : http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Boxes-of-10-Hostess-Twinkies-Golden-Sponge-Cake-with-Creamy-Filling-NIB-40-PCS-/321025895034?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4abea26a7a
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Beach Bum
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PostPosted: Nov 18 2012 07:49 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The sad thing is that someone is actually willing to pay 75+ dollars for snack cakes that really weren't very good to begin with. The last Twinkie I had tasted terrible, certainly not as good as they used to taste. Don't know if they changed the recipe or what, but in recent years they were pretty bad. Probably why they went under. Plus those red Zingers were superior in every way to begin with. Now those I'll actually miss.

It does kind of beg the question though: If they liked them so much why didn't they buy them before the company went bankrupt when 75 bucks would have probably bought you like 15-20 boxes and maybe helped keep them afloat?
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Shut up, Dorn
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PostPosted: Nov 19 2012 09:19 am Reply with quote Back to top

No one has mentioned one of the most basic facts about all of this: I think that Hostess is going under because the fact that Little Debbie has priced them right out of competition. Why pay $1.49 for a Hostess Honey Bun when you can get one for $.50? That's across the board. They are overpriced, and never adapted to market expectations.

Oh, and the CEO is a jackass.


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Syd Lexia
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PostPosted: Nov 19 2012 01:12 pm Reply with quote Back to top

One of the biggest money wasters for companies like Pepsi, Nabisco, and Hostess: shelf space and vendors.

In the supermarket industry, some companies pay for shelf space. This puts their products at the end of aisles, where they are more likely to be impulse buys than if they were in the middle. It also guarantees them big displays during sales.

Then, because these companies are paying for shelf space, they employ their own vendors to visit each and every supermarket and stock the shelves, because they don't trust supermarkets to give them the shelf space they were guaranteed.

As you can imagine, this raises distribution costs astronomically. For a company like Hostess, it never made sense to do business like this.

Pepsi, too, is facing financial difficulties right now. Profits are stable, but its debt load has increased. And I mean, it's fucking ridiculous. When you see three Pepsi guys spend two hours building a football-themed display in a store, and you realize that this is being done at supermarkets everywhere, you begin to wonder why they'd waste so much labor instead of delegating it to the supermarkets.
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UsaSatsui
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PostPosted: Nov 19 2012 01:25 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Syd Lexia wrote:
Pepsi, too, is facing financial difficulties right now. Profits are stable, but its debt load has increased. And I mean, it's fucking ridiculous. When you see three Pepsi guys spend two hours building a football-themed display in a store, and you realize that this is being done at supermarkets everywhere, you begin to wonder why they'd waste so much labor instead of delegating it to the supermarkets.

My guess is that the supermarkets won't do it either without some sort of compensation, and you have no guarantee they will do it at all, or even do it right.

Plus, while this isn't the case with cola, baked products need to be restocked constantly for freshness concerns. Having the person who delivers the stuff do the stocking gives you some extra control over things.
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LeshLush
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PostPosted: Nov 19 2012 01:33 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I just hope that whoever buys all of these Hostess products brings back the short-lived banana twinky. It was superior to the original in every way.
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Syd Lexia
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PostPosted: Nov 19 2012 04:47 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I Googled "Twinkie porn" out of curiosity, because Rule 34. OH MY GOD MY EYES.
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PostPosted: Nov 19 2012 05:42 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Syd Lexia wrote:
I Googled "Twinkie porn" out of curiosity, because Rule 34. OH MY GOD MY EYES.

haha

well, that was dumb of you.


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LeshLush
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PostPosted: Nov 19 2012 05:50 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Hahaha. I'm curious, but not that curious.
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Crazy_Bastard
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PostPosted: Nov 19 2012 07:15 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The end might not be in sight after all, a couple hours ago news reports started circulating that the Hostess agreed to enter mediation, in hopes of saving the company from liquidation: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-judge-hostess-union-agree-to-mediation-20121119,0,2355592.story
Props to everyone who sold snack cakes and made bank before this was announced, even though the company still might go under :O
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Methid Man
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PostPosted: Nov 19 2012 09:14 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Crazy_Bastard wrote:
The end might not be in sight after all, a couple hours ago news reports started circulating that the Hostess agreed to enter mediation, in hopes of saving the company from liquidation: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-judge-hostess-union-agree-to-mediation-20121119,0,2355592.story
Props to everyone who sold snack cakes and made bank before this was announced, even though the company still might go under :O

::just came back from shopping bagloads of Hostess products::

Aw dangit...
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sidewaydriver
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PostPosted: Nov 20 2012 12:51 am Reply with quote Back to top

This is great news. Now I can stockpile for a couple months before they go out of business.


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Ky-Guy
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PostPosted: Nov 20 2012 10:06 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Well, I might buy some boxes of Twinkies, send a few to some friends and keep the rest to sell on eBay.


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