Supply and demand, folks. Labor costs have nothing to do with people turning up their noses at the Ho Ho. Hostess is dying because no one wants to eat trans fats and preservatives when there are good cupcakes available at coffee shops and bakeries dotting every block even out in the suburbs.

Hostess was a thing of the seventies--when the suburbs were the far boonies with only one grocery store and healthniks were the lunatic fringe.