There is a upside to this tragedy...




...Sno Balls will be gone :)

Think again. It's the same thing happening at many businesses in the US, an extremely anti-business climate by this administration in favor of government jobs over private sector jobs. In the REAL world, employers sometimes decrease pay and/or benefits during hard times, it saves jobs. But unions have never understood this, demanding entitlement they think they deserve, which goes against any form of basic business accounting.

With what's coming, with what even the markets are showing as they do this slow-crash/hard-adjustment since the results of this fraudulent election, they are probably better off de-investing and taking their losses now rather than later. They can downscale, which is nothing new to business, or be forced by the unions to go out of business. Looks like the employees would rather just take unemployment benefits from the government, so much easier than working.

Boo, and I wish there were an unlike button. A Fantasy Reality. You have absolutely no idea what it is like to be poor.

That should happen to you for an uncontrollable reason, and then we will see how your posts read.

Are you even human ?

When my mother and I moved to Canada from South Africa we had nothing but the clothes in our luggage. 18 years later and I own $1m in real estate due to old fashioned hard work (also 6 years in the Marines so government benefits that say I don't have to make a down payment on any property I want to buy) and a sense of direction. Screw you lazy hippies, I didn't have childhood (aluminum sided tiny house) and now I'm deciding which Aston Martin I want

Think again. It's the same thing happening at many businesses in the US, an extremely anti-business climate by this administration in favor of government jobs over private sector jobs. In the REAL world, employers sometimes decrease pay and/or benefits during hard times, it saves jobs. But unions have never understood this, demanding entitlement they think they deserve, which goes against any form of basic business accounting.

With what's coming, with what even the markets are showing as they do this slow-crash/hard-adjustment since the results of this fraudulent election, they are probably better off de-investing and taking their losses now rather than later. They can downscale, which is nothing new to business, or be forced by the unions to go out of business. Looks like the employees would rather just take unemployment benefits from the government, so much easier than working.

Boo, and I wish there were an unlike button. A Fantasy Reality. You have absolutely no idea what it is like to be poor.

That should happen to you for an uncontrollable reason, and then we will see how your posts read.

Are you even human ?

Ah class warfare, eh? Way to post!
Actually, I've not only run a service business, but worked for a business for about a decade. I started out at minimum wage, and that was way below this $7-$8/hr bs now. In the time that I was there, not only did I manage to pull the highest raises due to work performance (I worked hard), but I worked my way into positional promotions, winding up being the top paid hourly wage employee at a company of over 1000 employees.

The company went through hard times, laid off some people, wages decreased, benefits cut (that's where I took the hit, was fine with me, I understood), and we all got our 401k's wiped out.

If I were working a government job, nothing would have changed. Here in the US, they even had post office workers literally assigned to empty back rooms doing absolutely nothing every day, required to do nothing, because they weren't allowed to take cuts or be laid off.

Part of this hostess thing, delivery trucks cant transport both wonder bread and twinkies in the same vehicle, this due to agreements with the unions. Meanwhile union workers complain the cuts are almost "like" working minimum wage, so now they can eat their pride I guess.

Now, am I human? way to troll!
Some say I'm part of an advance android invasion party from the planet X

Won't someone think of the poor shareholders?

Anybody who thinks Twinkies or other Hostess products are going to 'disappear' are out of their goddamned minds.

The Hostess brand and most if not all of what they make will just be manufactured by another company. The brand is worth money, and the products are popular. It's simply that the current business model isn't viable.

I've seen on eBay Twinkies selling for $50 a box. Those people are going to feel like a bunch of goddamned idiots when production resumes under new ownership.

Pretty sure you're just trolling, but here's a box @ $63 with 24 minutes to go.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HOSTESS-TWINKIES-SNACK-CAKES-10CT-FRESH-SOLD-OUT-BUY-NOW-BEFORE-THEYRE-GONE-/251185106455?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7bcc8e17

This is almost as bad as Billy Beer.

Anybody who thinks Twinkies or other Hostess products are going to 'disappear' are out of their goddamned minds.

The Hostess brand and most if not all of what they make will just be manufactured by another company. The brand is worth money, and the products are popular. It's simply that the current business model isn't viable.

The end of Twinkies means that you fat neckbeards can grow up and eat pork rinds instead.

C'mon if you are slumming it, slum it all the way.

I resent that, pork rinds are good

Also the worst thing that can come of twinkies vanishing...

sometime in the future our kids might watch Zombieland
And they'll have no idea what a Twinkie is....
THE ENTIRE MOVIE WILL MAKE NO SENSE TO THEM!!!

Here's a fortune/cnn article about the details and drama occurring prior to Hostess' 2nd (and final) bankruptcy. Basically you can blame everyone: the unions, the hedge funds, and management.

Investment tip: Now that Hostess is gone, it's time to buy Little Debbie stock.

I resent that, pork rinds are good

Also the worst thing that can come of twinkies vanishing...

sometime in the future our kids might watch Zombieland
And they'll have no idea what a Twinkie is....
THE ENTIRE MOVIE WILL MAKE NO SENSE TO THEM!!!

Eat pork cracklins whenever you can instead of pork rinds.

The end of Twinkies means that you fat neckbeards can grow up and eat pork rinds instead.

C'mon if you are slumming it, slum it all the way.

Or Slim Jims. Those are great. And if there's a zombie invasion, the nitrite preservatives in them could be used to make explosives.

But wait, this just in: Hostess isn't dead yet. The bankruptcy judge sent them back to mediation with the union. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20402361

The point is that everyone's life is absolutely different, and under a plethora of circumstances.

Your experience is not necessarily universal nor does it imply that by any means.

Neither is anyone's.