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Hershey raises candy prices nearly 10 percent
Associated Press ^ | 3/30/11 | AP

Posted on 03/30/2011 3:52:47 PM PDT by dollarbull

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To: Venturer
Haven’t bought a Hershey bar since they moved to Mexico. Raise it 100% they won’t hurt me.

That's the great thing about inflation. It's the perfect tax and you can't hide from it. What will you do to avoid 100% increase in gasoline, bread, milk, eggs, healthcare?

The question you need be asking is why are prices rising SO MUCH in a depression with high unemployment? How come Jamie Demon and Lloyd Blankcheck are still getting huge bonuses?
21 posted on 03/30/2011 4:09:23 PM PDT by dollarbull (why are paperbugs so bad at history?)
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To: GSWarrior

ROTFLOL


22 posted on 03/30/2011 4:10:43 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: workerbee
Because they are an eeeeeevvviiiilll corporation, that's why!!!

Correct, the Federal Reserve is an evil corporation.
23 posted on 03/30/2011 4:11:29 PM PDT by dollarbull (why are paperbugs so bad at history?)
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To: mlocher

OK. Good. Sounds like a plan.

I am sending you, via a uniformed representative of the US Government (mailman), 16 bars of vacuum sealed Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate.

I elect to retain, for leisurely consumption, 1 bar of Chirardelli Intense Dark Twilight Delight, 72% Cacao.

In the meantime, I will hustle my a$$ down to the nearest Walmart and invest heavily in their remaining stock, before they have an opportunity to adjust their prices accordingly...


24 posted on 03/30/2011 4:14:36 PM PDT by Paisan
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To: dollarbull

A clever propagandist could use this to get PMS-ing women to join la revolucion. And then we really have problems....


25 posted on 03/30/2011 4:15:12 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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To: mlocher; dollarbull

High cacao bars may result in Hyper-Active Fork Syndrome!

Send those bars to me for safe disposal. It is for your own good!

Or was that “Do it for the children”?


26 posted on 03/30/2011 4:16:12 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: dollarbull

I haven’t eaten any Hershey’s candy in about twenty years. Looks like it has saved me some money.


27 posted on 03/30/2011 4:16:38 PM PDT by pallis
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To: dollarbull

I won’t miss buying it. It is the most horrific so called chocolate on the market. I mean, we are talking dark wax.


28 posted on 03/30/2011 4:19:18 PM PDT by Republic (The entire White House presidential team needs to grow up and face facts!)
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To: Retired Greyhound
No ethanol takes a lot of sugar. Send a thank you note to grassley.
29 posted on 03/30/2011 4:19:18 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Ping, but not good news.


30 posted on 03/30/2011 4:22:01 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (1 Cor. 15, 1-4)
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To: dollarbull

What is this? Doesn’t Hersey know that there is no inflation? Maybe the Obama administration should investigate this and charge them with price gouging!

Yes, that way we can ensure that there is no inflation, just shortages of goods.


I swear that Obama has modeled his administration exactly like Venezuala’s Chavez.


31 posted on 03/30/2011 4:25:32 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Celtic Cross

I bought my first 85% Lindt bar the other day and even I, the bitter chocolate lover, can only handle a square in a sitting. 70% is my favorite.


32 posted on 03/30/2011 4:25:40 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: Paisan
Ah, thanks! I still have not had time to eat them yet Your stash is probably safe with me for the time being.
33 posted on 03/30/2011 4:32:20 PM PDT by mlocher (Is it time to cash in before I am taxed out?)
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To: dollarbull

I used to eat a pound of chocolate a day years ago when I was in the industry, but it wasn’t the crap that Hershey calls chocolate. The commodity prices will always fluctuate and affect the pricing of the manufactured goods. I’d rather the price of gasoline came down.


34 posted on 03/30/2011 4:36:11 PM PDT by Second Amendment First ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..." - Thomas Jefferson.)
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To: dollarbull

Just reach in your pocket and pull out one of those silver Mercury dimes you’ve been saving, take it to a coin dealer and trade it for 2 Federal Reserve Notes ($2) and go buy yourself a nice big Hershey bar.


35 posted on 03/30/2011 4:40:20 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: relictele

WalMart store brand Reese cups are awful, too. There’s just no substitute for the real Reese cup.


36 posted on 03/30/2011 4:52:42 PM PDT by rightly_dividing (1 Cor. 15, 1-4)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
Oh yeah, almost forgot the Bun Candy Bar.

The Bun candy bar factory was located right next door to my Dad's business in Fort Wayne back in the 70's. Got many free samples when we would visit the front desk and boxes of them around the Holidays... good times!


37 posted on 03/30/2011 4:57:32 PM PDT by OCC
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To: dollarbull

What inflation?. Obama doesn’t say we are having inflation. Things are just costing more according to him.

What is causing inflation? Higher costs for fuel mainly.

Farmers cannot grow things without fuel, the trucks cannot deliver without fuel, people cannot get to work without fuel, my house is cold without fuel.

Fertilizer is almost twice as high as it was last year and so is seed corn, Soy bean seed, wheat seed. all have risen.

My Health Insurance has risen, my electricity has risen,if I could get my sex organs to rise like the prices of things I would be dangerous. LMAO

It really isn’t funny though, an while all of this is going on our skinny Muslim President is vacationing, Playing golf , Basketball ,and starting wars while while sucking up to marxists.

Oh Well I can honestly say that one thing has not risen. My paycheck. I don’t know abpout you, but my safety cushion is vanishing fast, and people who are not as well off as myself are really hurting. Meanwhil we are shooting up 100 million dollars a day to help A;l Quaeda take over Libya.

It’s a great world if you don’t weaken.


38 posted on 03/30/2011 5:01:00 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: rightly_dividing

Hershey? That’s for amateurs, LOL! :)


39 posted on 03/30/2011 6:22:00 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: dollarbull
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40 posted on 03/30/2011 6:22:46 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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