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My question: where are they finding these replacement workers in this current labor market?
Their pay is pretty good in comparison to many others: "Under the rejected agreement, veteran workers, who Kellogg has said make about $35 an hour on average, would have received a 3 percent wage increase in the first year and cost-of-living adjustments in subsequent years. Newer hires make almost $22 per hour, according to the company."
[2014] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/kellogg-s-london-offi...

800 out of work, plant closed, production moved elsewhere.

> Pressed for time, consumers are springing for the cheap breakfast sandwich to go at McDonald's or Tim Hortons. Breakfast now accounts for 12 per cent of America's restaurant industry, adding up to a $42-billion US business every year.

Yes, let's blame the consumers, and not adapt and adjust for floating trends in consumer needs.

There's also the bit where breakfast cereal is an obsolete 19th-century anti-masturbatory product, slathered in sugar in the early 20th to make it palatable, and people are increasingly aware it's a bad way to start your day.

The idea that breakfast sandwiches are outcompeting cereal by being cheaper or faster is wild. They are obviously neither.