{"id":32507,"date":"2024-03-15T22:54:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T02:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=32507"},"modified":"2024-03-15T22:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T02:54:29","slug":"the-price-of-chocolates-main-ingredient-is-about-to-go-through-the-roof-heres-why-your-favourite-treats-are-getting-more-expensive-or-smaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=32507","title":{"rendered":"The price of chocolate\u2019s main ingredient is about to go through the roof. Here\u2019s why your favourite treats are getting more expensive \u2014 or smaller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/65f475b1c6c8e.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"166\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">A global run on cocoa futures promises to drive up prices for consumers and pressure manufacturers to make slimmer, smaller chocolate bars. The only question is when.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/the-price-of-chocolate-s-main-ingredient-is-about-to-go-through-the-roof-here\/article_9010e9e6-e095-11ee-a227-e705dbb692a2.html\">The price of chocolate\u2019s main ingredient is about to go through the roof. Here\u2019s why your favourite treats are getting more expensive \u2014 or smaller<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThere\u2019s only a couple of tools in the tool box,\u201d he said, adding that changing sizes is a much more cumbersome process than raising prices, since it involves changing packaging and making new chocolate moulds.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>which leads me to wonder what the costs to retool are vs. just raising the price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A global run on cocoa futures promises to drive up prices for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[273,18,1475,21],"class_list":["post-32507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-chocolate","tag-economics","tag-shrinkflation","tag-uh-oh","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32510,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32507\/revisions\/32510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}