Juice from Frozen Concentrate is not being produced anymore

I watched that clip and felt a growing sense of dissonance as it continued. A couple of weeks ago, during my weekly grocery shop, I found that Juice from Frozen Concentrate was on sale for $.99. This was a much better deal than the normal >$3 that it normally is sold for. Other people felt that way too, as they were being scavenged at a pretty good rate. In fact, when I went back into the store a couple of days later, they were completely sold out.

And yet, what I took away from the CBC article is that the demand is no longer there.

So how come all of that store’s Juice from Frozen Concentrate inventory was sold in days?

It could be that the people who liked Juice from Frozen Concentrate stocked up.

But wouldn’t that indicate some level of demand?

And yet, the CBC article indicated that no one is producing Juice from Frozen Concentrate anymore. Coke was the last.

So it isn’t that there is not demand. It is that there is not enough demand for the price they want to sell it for. We haven’t even begun to talk about the opportunity cost of Juice from Frozen Concentrate – all of these juice products (Juice from Frozen Concentrate, Juice in the Jugs, etc) are all supplied by fruit grown by a limited pool of Fruit Growers. Is that part of the reason? If so, wouldn’t that indicate that Juice from Frozen Concentrate has too low of a profit margin, not necessarily too limited of demand?

This is one of the things I really dislike about modern journalism. They don’t report or even seem to acknowledge the limitations of their investigation. If the journalists reported on how the Juice from Frozen Concentrate producers priced the products vs other Fruit Juice products and how the Fruit Juice products were impacted by their supply chains the reader would get a more accurate view of reality. Instead, news publications confidently publish factual articles that turn out to be flimsy and narrow when questions and facts about the bigger picture are introduced. There is no indication that anyone in the journalistic process asked these questions let alone tried answer them.