Interstate Bakeries Corp went tits up.
You fucking make Wonder Bread and you go broke?
Kind of like the old Helms Bakery delivery trucks from SoCal.
No wonder
2005-12-02
by Cody Ellerd^ah
It's time to revise your definition of the perfect peanut butter and jelly sandwich. On Dec. 16, the supply of Wonder Bread to Washington and Oregon will be cut off as Interstate Bakeries Corp., which has filed for bankruptcy protection, closes regional plants in nine states to cut costs.
Mercer Island Albertson's Store Manager John Gillespie said that in addition to losing a beloved bookend for any mayo-drenched meat product, his Jewish customers will be deprived of the only commercial kosher white bread he sells.
``Word is getting around now and some people are concerned,'' he said. At about 40 loaves per day, Wonder is his top-selling bread. The Albertson's bakery still makes its own kosher bread, and sells a Brenner's Bakery kosher rye that Gillespie says is ``good if you want a great pastrami.'' So there are alternatives.
``But just the fact that we all grew up with Wonder Bread as a name, and it's going away -- it's kind of weird,'' Gillespie said.
Interstate Bakeries
Baker to cut 300
jobs in Northwest
Interstate Bakeries said Tuesday it plans to lay off 450 workers, 300 in the Northwest, as it consolidates operations in three regions across the country.
The bankrupt baker of Wonder Bread and Hostess Twinkies said it will cut store clerks, salespeople and delivery people in nine states by the end of the year. Interstate spokeswoman Maya Pagoda would not say how many of the 300 job cuts in its six-state Northwest region would occur in Washington, but she said they were in addition to the previously announced layoff of 200 workers at its Lakewood bakery, now in the process of being closed.
Kansas City, Mo.-based Interstate Bakeries has shut seven bakeries and eliminated more than 4,000 jobs since it filed for bankruptcy in September 2004.