Is Tyson in trouble?

Tyson declined to say how many plant employees will be affected. It said it will help relocate workers and encouraged them to apply for other positions at Tyson.

 

Renters can survive by just moving. Homeowners will have problems because home prices will drop and be hard to sell.

 

It doesn't help when inflation sends the price of a package of chicken to $15-$20.

 

At least chicken and pork are mostly affordable. Beef is an entirely different story...

 

SOP for large corporations to buy out the small businesses,then shut them down.

 

Or slash prices below what the smaller guys base operateing cost is drive them under and then jack prices to 3 or 4 times what the smaller place charged ah la wal-mart style

 

Neither of those are what's happening here.

 

Pork prices set to skyrocket because the morons in California decided that to import the product, producers must comply with proposition 12.
Having to do with more space for each animal.
Estimated at 5 grand per animal, the independent and small farms won't afford it and larger corporate farms will be all that's left.
Without competition a monopoly can set whatever the market will bear.
And CA buys a lot of product.
Personally I'd just not sell in CA.
Bacon has been outrageously priced since the pandemic.

 

Never said that was what was happening in this case. I was responding to that specific comment. Its no secret a common method of many megas that want a market, is to move into that market then undercut everyone local out of business. Then when no one save potentially another mega is left jack prices as high as they can before people just dont buy X anymore. If they are really lucky there will be zero other local options and they can more or less set whatever price they want. Saw that happen in ND a few times. Wal-mart moved in and bankrupted all the locals then becauae the next nearest non wal-mart was a multi hour drive away they were able to increase prices to nearly 10 times what they were. For example milk went from $2 clean to near $15 a gallon until no one bought it anymore and they slowly lowered prices until $8 a gallon was the new norm locally.... and what were people going to do. Drive a 4 or 5 hour round trip?

That said id say the above does have a slight impact here. Prices went to the moon during the plandemic. Now inflation has also gone to the moon and many people simply dont have the cash for these products and turning to less desireable but far cheaper options which is in turn causing less demand and forcing tyson to cut the operation back. And because there arent really any smaller competitors they are going to cut back in stages until they hit a point the market will tolerate.