[Sca-cooks] Downsizing Sugar??
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Wed Nov 28 14:36:24 PST 2012
How humorous. To save our profits, we're going to cut the amount in the
package and raise our prices. And of course, not one word about us paying
twice the global retail rate already. There is price support legislation in
the Farm Bill that limits the amount of imported sugar forcing prices to
about double the world market rate. Great for sugar companies, lousy for
companies and people who use sugar. There is a study from Iowa State that
says eliminating the subsidies would save sugar consumers $3.5 billion per
year and create 20,000 new jobs in the food industry. The counter argument
is ending the price supports would destabilize the domestic sugar industry
and probably close a number of refineries, particularly damaging the sugar
beet industry, as these tend to be local co-ops.
It's been quite a while since the pound of coffee became 11 ounces, so I
guess the 80% downsizing of a bag of sugar is probably here to stay.
Bear
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Been that way for a while.
2010-- http://www.homemakershomestead.com/smf/index.php?topic=15348.0
and here is the word from C&H
Explained: C&H Sugar’s 5-to-4 lb. bags Reduction
by C&H Sugar on Friday, February 18, 2011 at 2:49pm ·
As many of our fans have noticed, the price of sugar has recently increased.
In an effort to alleviate some of the confusion and frustration about this
change we wanted to formally address it here.
As you may be aware, the price of sugar on the world market has nearly
doubled since the end of 2008. [You can see the data here at the USDA site:
http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/sugar/Data/Table04.xls ]. In order to
offset our cost increases, we have had to raise our price per pound of
sugar.
In order to keep the cost per bag of sugar down, many retailers converted
their store brand product from a 5-pound to a 4-pound bag. In an effort to
maintain affordability we decided to do the same with our C&H® brand sugar.
The reduction in size, however, is not enough to offset the cost increase in
the remaining four pounds of the product. That’s why you’re seeing the price
go up and the size go down at the same time. We understand the frustration
and we assure you we are doing everything we can to maintain the value and
affordability that our consumers expect from our brand. We hope that this
has helped alleviate some of the confusion around this recent change.
We appreciate your loyalty to C&H products. Thank you for your continued
support!”
You aren't the only one not to notice. Here's another take on it
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/15/the-incredible-shrinking-sugar-bag.html
Johnnae
On Nov 28, 2012, at 12:17 PM, Elise Fleming wrote:
> When did sugar downsize to a 4-lb package instead of 5 lbs? I must be
> behind the times!
>
> Alys K.
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