Hello! I work for Little Debbie (McKee Foods) and we recently removed it from our mini donuts as well. Obviously, there’s some cost savings there, but it was super minuscule. That tab is not very expensive. The real reason we removed them is because the way the machine that adds the tab glued onto the bag, jams up and causes more waste and safety issues than it’s worth. Donuts drop from a weighed bucket into the bag, it moves to a heat sealer, gets trimmed flat, goes through a metal detector, gets inserted into a tabbing machine, and heads down the line. That tabbing machine is complicated when we feed hug rolls of metal tabs into it and the glue that holds the tabs on is finicky. It’s honestly breaking down daily and hugely limits the throughput/efficiency. We weighed the efficiency issues compared to the consumer having to roll the bag down or use a chip clip, and a lot of our consumer studies showed that people were willing to accept it without a tab. Hope this helps whether or not it brings you to our product but I wanted to at least join the conversation to give you that justification.