If you don't know what this is, Hershey in canada made a stupid ad for "women's day" with a tranny in it. The Daily Wire hosts made a lot of fun of this, and rolled out a rapid response offering to sell a "Jeremy's Chocolate" supposed alternative to "woke chocolate". This was modeled to look like a repeat of their "Jeremy's Razors" company, which they made to spite a razor company that loudly quit advertising on Daily Wire as a woke virtue signal. They used the same ad style with Jeremy Boreing doing his little "wannabe god king" routine.
So this is their product page. It's $7 for a 1.5oz bar of chocolate. So how much does the same product from Hershey's cost? Only $1.20. That's an insane markup. I just put a single chocolate bar into checkout. It's USD $12.53. For something I can get for $1.20 at the store. It's more than 10x the price.
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Asking conservatives to pay $7 for a product that widely retails for $1.20 is just taking advantage of and cheating your customers. I haven't priced out Jeremy's Razors, but I'll assume they are competitive. This is not. This is an exploitative short term cash grab, not an attempt to build a new brand or make a competing product. It's just trying to get themselves rich by exploiting a political movement. That's grift.
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The Daily Wire is not a public company. It's a private for profit corporation owned by Ben Shapiro, Jeremy Boreing, Caleb Robinson, and Farris Wilks. Giving them lots of money doesn't "support the cause" it just boosts their net worth. If the company was taken public, that would be a different story, but as long as it's a private for profit company, it exists to make its owners rich more than anything else. Nothing wrong with that as long as they offer an actually competitive product.
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I think the whole "Jeremy Boreing as god king" bit is stupid. I think they put him as the front man on these side hustles because he has nothing to do, unlike Shapiro who is churning out content. Jeremy Boreing comes across as effeminate to me to the point of almost seeming homosexual. Him trying to act like a cross between James Bond and Donald Trump doesn't work at all.
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If you don't know the logistics of how Daily Wire can launch a chocolate product in 24 hours, it is simple. You know how Costco has the Kirkland brand, and how supermarkets have their own "store" brands? Factories that produce products will wholesale those products out with the buyer's branding. China is famous for this especially since nobody wants to buy Chinese branded shit. (though China got better at fake branding and now dominates Amazon, for example) I would bet that all the chocolate factories in the US are already owned by brands. So basically all the Daily Wire did was contact a chocolate wholesaler and set up a contract to buy chocolate in bulk for a discount where the factory will print and package using the Daily Wire's branding. We have no way of knowing what the source of this chocolate is unless they admit it. It could be coming from China for all we know. It should be pretty obvious that DW is paying much less than $1.20 per bar, though.
The Right has to put up with a lot of grifters because the "establishment" doesn't serve us, and for now, we are a niche market which lacks the ordinary competitive checks and balances are more highly competitive market would have.
My main problem with Jeremy's Chocolate is that it is fundamentally disrespectful to charge people an insane markup 583% over Hershey's retail price, and then try to market it as "stick it to the wokes! support conservative business! we're building alternatives!" No you aren't. Stop lying. You're taking advantage. Fuck you.
You have to consider the fact that Hershey's is a conglomerate with considerable production and distribution networks in place. This makes it easier for them to produce more for less, which translates to lower prices for consumers. One could also argue as to the quality of the chocolate, or lack thereof, and how that also merits a lower retail cost. I'm personally not enough of a connoisseur to know. Daily Wire, and Jeremy Boreing by extension, is not food processing conglomerate with an extensive production and distribution network. Multiple deals have to be made to get their brand out to the consumer. They may also require a higher standard for their product. This could very well be a grift, but I think it's unrealistic to expect Right-wing media companies to go into the candy business and have their customers expect retail store prices right out of the gate.
It's always cheaper to sell direct online like Daily Wire is doing than to sell through a retailer like Wal-Mart or Target, since the retailer demands a substantial cut in exchange for its shelf space.
They could literally just buy Hershey's bars off the shelf at Wal-Mart for $1.20 and rip the labels off and slap their own labels on, sell that shit for $1.50, and still make a profit.
So don't tell me $7 a bar is anything remotely close to a good faith number.
Definitely not. D2C is way way more expensive than shipping palettes to chain distributors (grocery, gas stations, pharmacies). One step down you still have cases, dozens and dozens of bars to one location.
Every single box going out with a different label and different tax nexus rules and potentially different shippers. You've got obvious scammers and people legit not getting stuff they ordered, and it's hard to do the right thing on one side without doing the wrong thing on the other side. Some pay with Paypal. Some direct with Visa/MC, some with other cards with different cuts off the top. Everything needs a box and padding and you need pickers and, honestly, it's why any company big enough to avoid selling direct does. Even big company "stores" that offer online direct to consumer shopping such as Microsoft actually farm it out to folks like Digital River.
$7 for chocolate? Yeah, too much, but maybe half of that number is there because of a lack of a more streamlined distribution network.
DW is passing shipping costs onto the customer, $5 shipping on a single $7 bar, so none of your arguments about supposed efficiencies in shipping costs apply. DW is making additional profit off of the shipping.
> thinks the costs are just shipping
It's amusing how little you actually know about logistics.
They could do that, and they could face a lawsuit.
I'm a lawyer. What would the grounds for the lawsuit be, exactly? Are you not allowed to re-sell the property that you purchased and own for some reason? Like I can't buy a chocolate bar and re-sell it to you? Do you think Hersheys has intellectual property rights in its chocolate bars? (assuming we are talking about the kind that don't have its name engraved into the chocolate)
It's called "reverse passing off." You can buy a Hershey's chocolate bar and resell it as a Hershey's chocolate bar, but if they make good chocolate they deserve the good reputation that comes with a good product.