Little Debbies snacks discontinued perm in Canada - RedFlagDeals.com Forums (2024)

Damn, I used to love their swiss rolls Little Debbie cakes. Used to be available everywhere. Went to No Frills and realized it's disappeared, WTF. Simple Google search last article was back in Nov 2022 from Vancouver. Said the distributor no longer wanted to deal with them "for reasons of their own". The manufacturer in US no longer wants to find another distributor. WTF. Not just the swiss rolls but all Little Debbie snacks and vachons are gone from store shelves. Sucks. Does anyone know what's really going On?? Of course, you get them everywhere in the states. Selection for anything in Canada is getting worse and worse.

Yup, all these snack products gone.
https://www.littledebbie.com/www/bakery-items

I saw Joe Louis at walmart last week. I believe that is a Vachon product. During times of recession or poor economic outlook, there tends to be less products available.

For example grocery prices for sure went up. People spend the same amount, but buy less. They may forego cakes and snacks and stick to staple items like meat/produce and bread.

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Jos Louis is a Vachon product and they’re everywhere.

I suspect Little Debbie no longer found it profitable to sell in Canada with our bilingual packaging requirements and different logistics. To be honest, I was never a fan. I didn’t find the cakes all that flavourful unless you consider “super sweet” a flavour.

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mrweather wrote: ↑Jos Louis is a Vachon product and they’re everywhere.

I suspect Little Debbie no longer found it profitable to sell in Canada with our bilingual packaging requirements and different logistics. To be honest, I was never a fan. I didn’t find the cakes all that flavourful unless you consider “super sweet” a flavour.

A lot of times I wonder what's the point of the bilingual packaging. All it does is increase costs for the benefit of one province. Print it all in English, and if the manufacturer wants to sell it in Quebec, then they can decide whether it's worth while to print in French too.

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mrfrugal83 wrote: ↑Going to miss their oatmeal creme pies and honey buns… only good thing from Vachom is there Billet logs… the rest are dry and suck Joe Louis/passion flakie… gross

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chimaican wrote: ↑A lot of times I wonder what's the point of the bilingual packaging. All it does is increase costs for the benefit of one province. Print it all in English, and if the manufacturer wants to sell it in Quebec, then they can decide whether it's worth while to print in French too.

Well that could be a shock but there's people who speak french outside Québec. And when the government want to protect french speaking people rights outside Québec many says it`s not needed. That kind of post tend to say otherwise.

tostaky wrote: ↑Well that could be a shock but there's people who speak french outside Québec. And when the government want to protect french speaking people rights outside Québec many says it`s not needed. That kind of post tend to say otherwise.

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At the same time though, Quebec is surrounded by English speaking provinces and US states. Although I see them wanting to save the language, the fact is, they're just delaying the inevitable.

Based on 2016 census, 75.4% of Canada speaks English as their primary tongue versus that of 22.8% who speak French, and the majority of francophones are in Québec. Only New Brunswick cracks >30% at 31.8% who are primarily francophone whereas every other province outside Québec barely hits 5%. The number of French language as the primary has been steadily decreasing decade by decade.

If businesses desire to do sales in Quebec then they will pony up the money, but they shouldn't be forced to do so in other parts of the country.

Tis banana is IRIE 😎

10% off is cold, 50% off is warm, 75% off is hot, but FREE IS RFD!

chimaican wrote: ↑A lot of times I wonder what's the point of the bilingual packaging. All it does is increase costs for the benefit of one province. Print it all in English, and if the manufacturer wants to sell it in Quebec, then they can decide whether it's worth while to print in French too.

Maybe you missed the part where French is one of the two official languages of our bilingual country? No major company is pulling out of Canada due to the minimally incremental cost of making bilingual packaging.

Little Debbie had one sole distributor in Canada and that distributor ended their relationship with McKee Foods (which makes Little Debbie products).

psyko514 wrote: ↑Maybe you missed the part where French is one of the two official languages of our bilingual country? No major company is pulling out of Canada due to the minimally incremental cost of making bilingual packaging.

Little Debbie had one sole distributor in Canada and that distributor ended their relationship with McKee Foods (which makes Little Debbie products).

Not to go off topic but I emailed Herr’s because they had great ketchup chips and one of the reasons they stopped selling in Canada was the bilingual label requirement.

psyko514 wrote: ↑Little Debbie had one sole distributor in Canada and that distributor ended their relationship with McKee Foods (which makes Little Debbie products).

And so far they haven’t found a replacement. Something must have changed from a business perspective.

Dinamo2016 wrote: ↑Not to go off topic but I emailed Herr’s because they had great ketchup chips and one of the reasons they stopped selling in Canada was the bilingual label requirement.

If that was one of the reasons, what were the others?

psyko514 wrote: ↑If that was one of the reasons, what were the others?

Surprisingly I found the email from more than 4 years ago and the bilingual law was the only reason he listed.

Dinamo2016 wrote: ↑Not to go off topic but I emailed Herr’s because they had great ketchup chips and one of the reasons they stopped selling in Canada was the bilingual label requirement.

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Excuses are a dime a dozen. If you fall for them then they can peddle any nonsense and get away with it.

There are some entertaining idioms revealed by mandatory bilingual packaging
For instance, shepherd's pie is called Chinese pie in Quebec

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A2t%C3%A9_chinois

jenviea wrote: ↑There are some entertaining idioms revealed by mandatory bilingual packaging
For instance, shepherd's pie is called Chinese pie in Quebec

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A2t%C3%A9_chinois

Thats not a language fail, its two similar items.

That said i am reminded of this Simpsons clip