One guy will own it all someday.

On the flip side these companies that manage brands have investments to defend. Recently I bought a pound - 11 ounces these days - of Eight O'Clock Coffee. That was spun off from A&P before it went bankrupt, and sold a couple of times. Now I think owned by a Chinese company among other brands it owns. But they manage the brand as an upscale item. 100% pure Columbian beans, and wow is that good coffee.

This sounds like a future Luxxotica of ice creams.

Which, come to think of it, might not be such a bad thing - as it would, given similar results, make satisfying one's sweet tooth unaffordable to many.

Not fair by any means - but in the end, probably for the best.

I remember my mom used to buy Eight O'Clock Coffee from A&P, decades ago, maybe 1950s!
It is still really good to drink.

The water shortage crisis in the Las Vegas area is now critical - with residents basically being barred from running dishwashers daily, bathing every day, or watering lawns (for the few who still have one).

An 200,000 ft² ice cream plant must consume colossal amounts of water.

AFAIK, they sell ice cream throughout the southwestern US. I'd hate to see them shut down for any reason.

I'd rather see the huge cattle operations close down, along with the land squandering water to grow hay for them. Water use for those industries is much heavier than it is for that ice cream plant. Some things just don't belong in the desert like big green lawns and large cattle operations.

so I hope they don't change the formula of that one. It had so much stuff crammed into it a picture of the container should be next to "decadent" in the dictionary.