{"id":25562,"date":"2024-02-27T11:50:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/?p=25562"},"modified":"2024-02-27T11:58:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:58:47","slug":"groceries-becoming-too-expensive-rich-ceo-suggests-froot-loops-for-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/02\/groceries-becoming-too-expensive-rich-ceo-suggests-froot-loops-for-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Groceries Becoming Too Expensive? Rich CEO Suggests Froot Loops For Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Kellogg, Gary Pilnick, has an idea for people who are finding their grocery store bills too be too expensive:<\/p>\n<p>Cereal for dinner.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s their actual plan to increase sales.<\/p>\n<p>Kellogg has created some ads promoting the idea, while Pilnick came off like a member of the French royal family in the 18th century in an appearance on CNBC to explain the idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is there a potential for that to land the wrong way?&#8221; the host asked about the idea <em>of replacing actual meals with Corn Pops<\/em>\u00a0(emphasis mine).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t think so,&#8221; Pilnick hilariously replied, seemingly to triple down on the idea of Frosted Flakes being a suitable replacement for protein and nutrients that would come with a balanced dinner.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f6HkkF6RqQA?start=39&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen title=\"WK Kellogg CEO Gary Pilnick: &#39;Cereal for dinner&#39; is trending for consumers under price pressure\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pilnick makes more than $5-million each year, according to an SEC filing from last fall and he&#8217;s now being blasted for out of touch suggestions to deal with the affordability crisis &#8211; which clearly doesn&#8217;t impact him.<\/p>\n<p>Kellogg, as you may recall, closed their London factory in 2014 &#8211; putting hundreds of people in this community out of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CEO of Kellogg, Gary Pilnick, has an idea for people who are finding their grocery store bills too be too expensive: Cereal for dinner. Yes, that&#8217;s their actual plan to increase sales. Kellogg has created some ads promoting the idea, while Pilnick came off like a member of the French royal family in the","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":25474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3313],"class_list":["post-25562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-afternoons-with-craig-needles"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 02:01:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/classicrock981.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/02\/groceries-becoming-too-expensive-rich-ceo-suggests-froot-loops-for-dinner\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25567,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25562\/revisions\/25567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}