A relatively strong job market awaits the 1,800 or so people displaced from the Del Monte Foods fruit cannery in Modesto.
But the closure of the plant is a blow to the local economy, which remains grounded in processing food and beverages, drawing income from consumers around the world.
Del Monte had filed for bankruptcy July 1. An auction for this and other operations in the United States and Mexico ended Thursday. No one offered to keep the massive Yosemite Boulevard plant running…