Prices for name-brand snacks including Oreos, Triscuits, Chips Ahoy and Ritz crackers are poised to spike at supermarkets across New York City as the junk-food conglomerate that makes them shrinks distribution, The Post has learned.
A $5.99 package of Oreos and a $5.99 box of Ritz crackers could rise as much as $1 each by the end of the month, grocery executives said. That’s when Mondelez International — which also makes Clif Bars, Hall’s cough drops and Philadelphia cream cheese — will stop direct deliveries to 1,000 independent grocers across the city.
In a Jan. 10 letter from its in-house counsel obtained by The Post, Mondelez told grocers that it will no longer make deliveries directly to their stores as it “moves to a new operating model.”
Chains that will be affected include Foodtown, Key Food, Bravo and C-Town, according to the National Supermarket Association, which represents the stores. Gristedes stores will also see Mondelez deliveries stop, the company confirmed to The Post…