Hershey sued for $5M over missing 'cute' face on Reese's Peanut Butter Pumpkins

[seafoam1 3,053]

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/05/1222949715/hershey-reeses-peanut-butter-pumpkin-lawsuit-false-advertising

A bit of dressing-up in product advertising is to be expected, but how much embellishment do we allow before we call it a lie?

That's the question at the center of Florida woman Cynthia Kelly's lawsuit against The Hershey Company, which makes Reese's Peanut Butter products.

Kelly alleges she bought the company's "cute looking" Peanut Butter Pumpkins with a jack-o'-lantern wrapping in October, believing that the candy in question would match the picture — only to feel tricked, not treated.

"This is a class action against Hershey for falsely representing several Reese's Peanut Butter products as containing explicit carved out artistic designs when there are no such carvings in the actual products," the lawsuit states.

"In order to boost sales and revenues of the Products, Hershey's changed the packaging for the Products to include the detailed carvings within the last two to three years."

The suit claims that the problematic packaging extends to Reese's seasonal ghosts, bats and pumpkins, and it cites a number of YouTube videos of other people complaining.

 

[Drizzay 723]

These people need to be punched in the face.  They are the ones driving insurance rates up for the rest of us.

[weepaws 3,201]

Yea if it wasn’t for these people, insurance rates would be lower, 

[The Psychic Observer 498]

Every time I get an insurance increase, I open my window and scream at the people that continually sue these candy manufactures.  Really steams my nads.

[seafoam1 3,053]

"Can anybody tell me whats wrong with this picture? Anybody? Anybody at all..."