For a reference point, a supermarket here stopped selling Mars Inc. products altogether because of the absurd prices. For a couple months all the M&Ms, bounties

For a reference point, a supermarket here stopped selling Mars Inc. products altogether because of the absurd prices. For a couple months all the M&Ms, bounties, maltesers, and god knows what else all got substituted by store brand on the shelves. These were not quite as good as the brand-name ones, but it turns out that at a quarter the price people are willing to put up with that. It's now some time later and Mars products have returned to the shelves, at roughly half the price they were before. > If you put these warnings on the products won't customers buy less of them Yes and that's the point. It's a tactic to pressure the manufacturer. Carrefour sells plenty of other things to keep them afloat for a long while.