Favorite Cereal – Sold Out
January 8th, 2009
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Okay – maybe “sold out” is a little extreme. But I never thought they would change the Corn Pops. So why would they change now? I have a guess – it could be way off base, but I have a guess. Corn pops are probably made from Corn. Which happens to be a valuable commodity these days with ethanol being a (seemingly) huge part of our change in energy plan going forward. So what do you do if your product is made from corn? Well, you either raise your prices or you find an alternative supplement.
Enter: Peanut Butter Chocolate Corn Pops.
I have heard that some cocoa can be very cheap to import – so it probably makes alot of business sense to offer an alternative and undoubtedly if they can offer it at a cheap price, or an equivalent price to their current offering but have a cheaper cost, viola – profits go up. I am not happy about them changing my corn pops – but I get it. And I’ll probably try them. Now, if only I wasn’t allergic to Peanuts …