As some of you have heard there was a drought in western Africa for the past few years.  This has impacted the global supply of Cocoa.  The company that we deal with, Equal Exchange, has a formula that they use to determine what they pay the coops for Cocoa.  This formula uses the global price.

The cost of chocolate bars has gone up.  Lucky we bought a lot of chocolate at the old price.  As new stock is purchased and put on the shelf you will see the new price.  Please look at the back of the box for the new price.