Goodbye, Little Debbie

[stgislander]

WTF!!!

Goodbye, Little Debbie: Snack cakes to gradually disappear from commissary shelves

The bakery best known for its Little Debbie line will no longer be providing its products to commissaries at U.S. military bases at home and overseas.

www.stripes.com

 

[Sneakers]

Charlie Brown is turning over in his re-runs.

 

[vraiblonde]

If you have a deployed loved one, now you know what to send in their CARE packages.

 

[spr1975wshs]

Regulations hurt businesses in many ways.

 

[Kyle]

Regulations hurt businesses in many ways.

You can strip 95% of federal, state and local regulations off the books and this country would still be over regulated.

 

[Gilligan]

Regulations hurt businesses in many ways.

FARs in particular. The gross overhead overload on small companies like ours that is caused by FARs and DFARs run amok is one of the reasons we completely stopped selling anything directly to Uncle Sam, with the one exception of their credit card purchases (maximum $10,00).

This has created an entire industry of re-sellers...companies that buy from us what the gummint needs and then take care of the voluminous requirements to be "compliant" before delivering on to the gummint. The cost adder is huge, of course....but who cares..its just taxpayer money.

 

[phreddyp]

FARs in particular. The gross overhead overload on small companies like ours that is caused by FARs and DFARs run amok is one of the reasons we completely stopped selling anything directly to Uncle Sam, with the one exception of their credit card purchases (maximum $10,00).

This has created an entire industry of re-sellers...companies that buy from us what the gummint needs and then take care of the voluminous requirements to be "compliant" before delivering on to the gummint. The cost adder is huge, of course....but who cares..its just taxpayer money.

Sounds like one of those things which could drive inflation!

 

[Gilligan]

Sounds like one of those things which could drive inflation!

Drives cost inflation for government purchases, sure. But its nothing new....

 

[stgislander]

Drives cost inflation for government purchases, sure. But its nothing new....

Why do you think that govt toilet seat was $640 back in the 80's.

 

[Gilligan]

Why do you think that govt toilet seat was $640 back in the 80's.

I wish we made those....

 

[glhs837]

FARs in particular. The gross overhead overload on small companies like ours that is caused by FARs and DFARs run amok is one of the reasons we completely stopped selling anything directly to Uncle Sam, with the one exception of their credit card purchases (maximum $10,00).

This has created an entire industry of re-sellers...companies that buy from us what the gummint needs and then take care of the voluminous requirements to be "compliant" before delivering on to the gummint. The cost adder is huge, of course....but who cares..its just taxpayer money.

Yep. We needed to buy 35 kits of a thing, each one cost 12k. Couldn't buy direct, small company that wasnt all FAR'd up. Added 3K to the cost of each kit. The intermediary did nothing, no value add at all. And most frustrating was the layer of "Telephone" it added.