Commentary: Necco Wafers and the capitalist algorithm
by Steve Almond, Chicago Tribune
May 17, 2018
3 minutes
News that the New England Confectionery Co. may go under, after more than a century in business, sent shock waves through the candy world. Those who adore the company's chalky, multicolored Necco Wafers are snapping up cases. A Florida woman offered to trade her car for the remaining stock.
I can understand the collective freakout. Heck, I wrote a whole book about the confectionery industry because my favorite candy bar on Earth - the miraculous Caravelle - had vanished from the racks.
But the
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