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Why chocolate is skyrocketing in price

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In fact, can we say it's a kind of global warming? As the balance is disturbed, other things are also disturbed. For example, there was no frost on olive trees in Turkey this year. It was supposed to happen. Because there was no frost on the leaves due to the extreme heat, the viruses did not die and now the viruses in the olive trees have started to ruin the olives. This is why olive oil prices have increased in the country.

Another thing that climate change is making expensive. Add it to the pile next to "everything" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/17/climate-...

Was just talking to a guy who used to work in commodities at Hershey. He thinks smaller bars are on the way. Fortunately chocolate products have plenty of substitutes.

> Fortunately chocolate products have plenty of substitutes.

I don't understand - it's chocolate. That's like saying "coffee has substitutes" and yet none of them are coffee.

What substitutes are you thinking of? A chocolate bar without chocolate is not a chocolate bar...

Not without chocolate, but less. It only needs to be enough to be legally called a chocolate bar.

I meant substitutes for consumers. Coffee’s substitute is tea. Chocolate can be replaced with plenty of other types of desserts. Even if you look at Hershey’s offerings, they have plenty of options with a lower content of chocolate than chocolate bars and kisses.

I've tried _hard_ to replace coffee with tea, but it's not the same. I'd rather just not drink coffee.

"You want chocolate cake? Here's an apple pie instead!" ...nope, doesn't work.

> plenty of options with a lower content of chocolate than chocolate bars and kisses

That means it will taste less like chocolate :(

You don't tell someone who wants an apple "you can have an orange, or this applesauce that is only 10% apples" and expect them to be happy.

With the recent Easter holiday, I noticed that a lot of the chocolate candies were hollow chocolate shells, rather than solid chocolate that I remember as a child. I chalked it up to shrinkflation.

Isnt Hershey a chocolate substitute?

> Why chocolate is skyrocketing in price

Step 1: Create fear. Step 2: increase prices.

Worked for centuries.

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