Sweet-n-Low to end Brooklyn production after nearly 60 years

[LiberalElite]

Source: Greenwichtime.com

NEW YORK (AP) — For almost 60 years, tiny pink packets of Sweet'N Low have flowed, millions upon millions, from Cumberland Packing Corp., the Brooklyn company where the sugar substitute was first created.

But the family-owned company told workers just over a week ago that manufacturing and packing work would stop in Brooklyn over the course of the year and shift entirely to other parts of the country, leaving only its headquarters in the borough.

It's the latest chapter in a familiar tale. New York City hasn't been a manufacturing contender in decades, with global competition and the high costs of labor and real estate taking their toll.

Read more: http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/us/article/Sweet-N-Low-to-end-Brooklyn-production-after-6765262.php

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[Travis_0004]

1. I'm actually suprised its manufactured there.

NYC is about the last place I would want to manufacture anything. Costs are just too high.

[LiberalElite]

2. That's what it says in the article -

at one time there were a million manufacturing jobs. Now when I go to work I travel through a once busy manufacturing neighborhood just across from Manhattan that's being transformed into yuppieland.

[840high]

3. The last time I was in New York - that's exactly what I saw.

[LiberalElite]

5. Some of it is thanks to Bloomberg -

who some float as a savior of the Repukes if the internecine Trump-Cruz wars get too bloody.

[7962]

6. Good lord, who thinks Bloomberg could win the gop nomination?

I certainly dont

[LiberalElite]

7. Not me. He only ran as a Repug for mayor because

he wasn't getting anywhere as a Democrat.

[Beartracks]

8. Williamsburg?

Just curious. I heard the shoreline of Brooklyn was getting lined with luxury high-rise condos that block the view of the river and change the nature of the neighborhoods.

Gentrification.

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[LiberalElite]

13. No, it's Fort Greene

which is near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It's pretty diverse but that'll change.

The Barclays Arena was built on the border of Ft. Greene and Prospect Heights.

There was a lot of opposition. Of course this would be a radical change to the neighborhood. To pacify the residents, thousands of affordable housing apts were promised. As of now, 20 years after the developer started talking about it, only Barclays Arena has been built. Of course.

Gentrification. Yep. I hate it. From my experience, whenever the real estate industry hacks start boosting a neighborhood as being "revitalized"... it's gentification and the rent's going up up up. One prominent neighborhood organization that fought this project was called "Develop Don't Destroy." Since when has that ever happened.

[EL34x4]

4. "Company officials wouldn't say where the old jobs will move"

Yet the article tells us that manufacturing will shift to other parts of the country. I wouldn't be surprised if by "other parts of the country" they really mean Mexico.

[avaistheone1]

18. Sounds ominous...

[sakabatou]

9. I used some years ago.

Tasted awful.

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. Funny, it's the only sweetener I can stand

I don't like Splenda and I avoid aspartame.

[Greybnk48]

11. Same here. I've tried every brand of Stevia too

and it hits me as bitter. I've used saccharin since the 60's, so whatever horrible thing it will do to me is already done.

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. Stevia - BLECH!

But I'm a supertaster and very sensitive to bitterness. Cilantro tastes like soap and beer? I would have to be dying of thirst.

[LiberalElite]

14. I use one of Cumberland's products - Stevia in the Raw -

it's stevia mixed with dextrose, so it's not sugar free but it tastes better. It's a bit pricey but one packet is equal to two teaspoons of sugar. I always use 1/2 of a packet.

[onecent]

15. That stuff is pure POISON ANYWAY.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LiberalElite]

16. It's not about the "poison" - it's about the jobs nt

[onecent]

17. Oh, well,

excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me.