Tam Tam lovers will be sorely disappointed when they hit the grocery stores to stock up on their favorite kosher-for-Passover crackers. Manischewitz will not be producing the hexagon-shaped matzo snacks this year, due to construction delays at its new digs in Newark, N.J., the New Jersey Jewish News reported. At first, The Shmooze was skeptical of the news, but after several unsuccessful attempts at locating Tam Tams in kosher stores and larger markets in New York City, we are now convinced that there is indeed a shortage.
Slate magazine (online) has an interesting piece about the growing incompetence of American management and its practices. Let's see, your company produces a best-selling product for a captive consumer clientele. This product has exactly an eight-day lifespan, after which its just another one of many similar products on the shelf available to these no-longer captive consumers. So make sure that you have no fall-back plan to produce this product, since you knew that you were putting up a new production site (and had, presumably already close down the old site)and that building delays are commonplace and do happen, particularly if the construction people realize your predicament and demand a little more tsedakah than you are accustomed to giving, if you get my drift. Manishewitz and goyishe kep, perfect together? Hershele
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