Why No Food Inserts in the 2010s?

[ALR-bishop]

Double post

[David W]

Plus with player salaries so high, there is little incentive or need for extra money for promo sort of cards, like the food/cereal/bread cards which at one time were quite common.

If you are making 10 to 20 million per year, there is no pressure on the Players Union to find extra income opportunities for the players.

[BradH]

Originally Posted by David W

Plus with player salaries so high, there is little incentive or need for extra money for promo sort of cards...If you are making 10 to 20 million per year, there is no pressure on the Players Union to find extra income opportunities for the players.

Trust me, this is not the reason - in the players' eyes, the more the better. Makes no difference how much they make. It'd be "free money" in their minds because they don't really have to do anything to get it.

MLB has made the fees so high for companies to license their products, it's just generally not a cost-effective move for the food companies.

[DaClyde]

Originally Posted by BradH

MLB has made the fees so high for companies to license their products, it's just generally not a cost-effective move for the food companies.

These days, it should be MLB paying the other companies to include cards in their products so more people would know that baseball cards are still a thing.