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Progresso, Amy's cuisine, Frito-Lay, Campbell Soup, Heinz Kraft, Coca-Cola, Hershey ... The list is long. These are just some of the big food companies to announce that they would be roof on their products offers and stop many items for good.

It all started, like a lot of things have with now coronavirus. Whether due to social distancing guidelines or supply chain issues, many manufacturers have been forced to shut down on a significant portion of their product offers during the CVVID-19 pandemic. Instead, they focused on production as the most popular, easiest to produce, and the fastest moving elements.

As a result, you may have noticed that your favorite products, such as roasted cooking pizza with Amy Vegetables,Quietly disappeared from the tablets of grocery stores In recent months. And vegetarian pizza does not have its product to disappear. In total, Amy's cuisine had to reduce its offer from 228 to only 71 products during the pandemic, according toBloomberg. (Fortunately, vegetable pizza is now back in the menu after the company will rejiggered its manufacturing line to ensure that appropriate social distancing protocols could be followed.)

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Now, manufacturers say these changes will not be temporary. TheThe Wall Street newspaper reportsMany major food brands make these permanent cuts in order to streamline their offers, degrease, and because the production of many of these groceries is simply impossible while respecting the social distancing guidelines in the facilities of manufacturing.

For example, Pepsico ceased to produce 20% of its products during the CVIV-19 crisis, according to the WSJ. Steven Williams, CEO of Pepsico, told WSJ that Frito-Lay will probably emerge from the pandemic with 3% to 5% fewer products. The WSJ reports that Pepsico "benefits from the opportunity to end certain items that have few or fans are complicated to produce [...] make its factories and a more efficient distribution network. (Speaking of the articles stop, remember these33 superpopular snacks from your childhood that ceases?)

While coronavirus marked this massive size of grocery items, there may be another reason why manufacturers arrive eventually with a large part of their products: "The paradox of choice. Commonly used by consumer psychologists, "the paradox of choice" is where consumers become paralyzed when they have dozens of options similar to choose from. (It was our inspiration to go through89 Progresso soups to choose the 10th to buy.) How do you know if you have to buy Chunky, hearty, healthy for the heart, or homestyle chicken noodle soup? Is it really better than the other?

Because of this, the leaders said the pandemic "forced them to reconsider if American consumers need these vast choices that sometimes overload factories and stores", according to the WSJ. Something tells us that consumers do not really need the option to have buttermilk, homestyle, thick and mellow, or original waffles ...

Food manufacturers are not the only companies roof. We also saw this trend in the catering industry, with chains likeMcDonalds,I JUMP, andMetro Axing between two and several dozens of menu items. So, in addition to never seeing your favorite foods on the tablets of grocery stores, you must also prepare for disappointment by discovering the15 Fast Food Menu Articles You could never see again.