Change in consumer taste plucks poultry plant's jobs.

• Position: Western

Too many people want to pick up hot chicks. After about 20 years selling refrigerated roasted chicken, Springdale, Ark.-based Tyson Foods Inc. will close its Wilkesboro roasting plant, idling 410 workers. Blame consumers' need for speed, spokesman Gary Mickelson says. "It's due to the decline in popularity for the product and the increased popularity of hot rotisserie chickens. It was a wonderful product, but the marketplace changed. You can now go...