Monday, December 24

Could take a miracle

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- The monks at Assumption Abbey in Missouri are looking for new customers for their famous fruitcake after a high-end retailer decided to stop stocking it.
For more than 20 years, Williams-Sonoma has sold the bourbon- and rum-soaked cakes in its stores and from its catalog but last year the retailer decided to stop selling them in its stores, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
As a result, orders for the fruitcakes dropped to about 20,000, some 6,000 fewer than in 2006. The monks, who make the cakes to financially support their abbey, are scrambling to market themselves to new customers.

Monks praying for divine fruitcake buyers - UPI.com

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