Anyone else seeing the products I can't find in stores anymore in their local market?

[redrosesix]

Used to like having little pocket rolls of candy while at work, something I could easily unwrap real quick and get a little sugar boost while I'm moving around. In the past that would've generally been Charms or Lifesavers. Now I can't find either anywhere, even in candy stores that sell nothing else.

I also found that I like the Real Sugar version of Pepsi, but my grocery stores don't sell it in bottle form anymore, only can, and canned pepsi goes flat way too quickly (the sole reason I prefer Coke).

there has been a lot of consolidation in all industries but mostly in groceries. a lot of this is the result of corporate amalgamations but it's also do to trade agreements which made it easier to purchase companies across borders and conteact out.

f wxaple many companies in Canada were bought up after NAFTA and just shut down to reduce competition. Hershey boughtMoirs factory and shut it down, then moved itself to Mexico when it bought out a Maxican company. And now most of the products of those 3 companies no longer exist.

but then there are others that I just don't understand because some of them were very popular and had no real competitors. But if they were contracted out or operations moved to another continent, then the products which are easiest to ship survived. and where plants have become automated even more so.

so back to your example, it's much easier for a famiy owned candy company to make a plethora of products in various sizes than to have a robot make rolls of candies and individually wrapped ones.

 

[happybaker]

Check Michael's Crafts for lifesaver rolls. Weird, i konw, but that's the only place i can ever find the butter rum Lifesaver rolls.

 

[Foxhound3857]

I'm curious about this assessment. Do you feel it goes flat in storage, before you open it, or do you mean the bubbles don't last as long after you open it?

The second one. I can open a can of coke and it still has some fizz in it two hours later. I open a pepsi and it's completely flat in 30 minutes.

I don't know why, it just is.

 

[NotUrsula]

If you have 5 Below in your area, they tend to have a lot of non-chocolate candies that no one else carries.

 

[unrequited23]

We have a local specialty candy store/warehouse, b.a. Sweeties, that will ship in the US. A 20 ct. box of lifesaver rolls was $29 plus shipping. They are the only place I can find DH's favorite candy bar, Reese's Nutrageous, for his stocking.

 

[pookybean]

Bells Stuffing mix.

I went to buy some for Christmas and couldn't find it at our usual grocery store. I went to do a search to make sure another had it in stock and couldnt find it anywhere. After a further search I found out the company was sold. A new company bought it but wont start making the stuffing again until next year

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

A hispanic grocery store might sell the real sugar Pepsi. Wal-mart carries it in the international foods section here.