Jansing and Co   |  November 15, 2012

Twilight for Twinkies?  Hostess threatens the end

CNBC's Mandy Drury reports Hostess is threatening to go out of business if workers don't end strike on Thursday.

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>>> the demise of ding-dongs. aman amanda is here with what's moving your money. there goes the late night snacks. the hostess brand that makes the twinkies filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy back in january. now that they are going to seek to lick we did the company unless enough workers stop striking by 5:00 p.m . to resume the normal operation. if liquidation is the option that they go for, they would begin the operations as soon as november 20th . as to why the strike, just a bit of background in the information for your here, richard. it's the members of the bakery tobacco workers in the international union . they went on strike in november 9th . so 5:00 p.m . today we'll find out if we still get twin keys or not.

>> it's a good thing the twin keys last a long time. let's talk wal -mart. they're going gourmet.

>> they're going gourmet. they have a new service. it's a male subscription service called goodies. it lets you try new foods for $7 a month. for that $7 you get a box of 5 to 8 sample food items. and these products are not currently carried on wal -mart shelves. it's really testing out to see what the customer likes. and wal -mart did start testing the service about three months ago. they already have 3,000 subscribe subscribers. you can get items like pumpkin souffle and dark chocolate infused bars.

>> that's starting to sound like the boxes we get on the airline.

>> if you're lucky.

>> thank you so much. as always.