Over long holiday weekends, distribution centers and warehouses are known to operate with reduced staffing, offering attractive targets to would-be thieves.
Mars is planning to have cocoa it purchases physically separated from products that come from other unverified sources at every stage in its supply chain.
Workers at two Amazon facilities near Atlanta, Georgia, and a delivery facility in Skokie, Illinois, outside of Chicago, also voted to authorize strikes December 15.
Boeing is plowing money into South Carolina, a month after reaching an agreement to end a costly and contentious walkout by machinists in the Pacific Northwest.