Alexander & Baldwin Inc (ALEX), The Hershey Company (HSY): Your Wallet’s About to Get Hit at the Checkout Line

Cereal maker General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS) has also noted the trend toward healthier snacking, as the entire sector has taken off as breakfast, lunch, and dinner become less of an event. It’s become a “continuous consumption” trend that has sugar producers confronting changing habits in a bid to keep sugar relevant.

It also suggests that the politicians who voted to keep sugar prices high by defeating the subsidy reform bill are behind the times. That the industry is awash in product but Americans still pay prices that far exceed anyone else in the world shows that this transfer of wealth from consumers to corporations is not such a sweet deal. Margins at food and beverage makers will be pinched, and America’s sweet tooth may just be extracted.

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Fool contributor Rich Duprey has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Coca-Cola and PepsiCo and owns shares of PepsiCo. 

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