Actually, it may have been an issue, and another big issue is that Illinois, especially Chicago, has socialism problems that in some regards make Canada’s look small.

I did a quick calculation, and the cost of the sugar (wholesale estimate) in my dollar bag of “Vitamin M&M” is about a penny.  So if you cut that by half, that is a cost reduction that managers will pay attention to.  I’d guess that the same holds for Life Savers.

So a lie?  No, but perhaps not the only reason, either.