Florida woman sues Hershey for $5 million, says Reese's candies don't have carved designs

www.cbsnews.com Florida woman sues Hershey for $5 million, says Reese's candies don't have carved designs

Pennsylvania-based The Hershey Company is facing a lawsuit seeking $5 million in damages over the wrappers on Reese's peanut butter candies.

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This obviously seems silly, but I think it's very important for the packaging of a product to not mislead consumers. Have you ever heard of non-functional slack fill? Shit should be illegal, but because it isn't, you get a bunch of libertarians in every thread about this like "um, it isn't illegal, so what's the problem?"

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The football in question:

https://www.hersheyland.com/products/reeses-milk-chocolate-peanut-butter-football-1-2-oz.html

Yeah, I could see someone being upset. Imagine planning a Super Bowl party and putting out a platter of egg shaped things instead of little footballs.

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She's not wrong, but... $5 million?

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- What I would like to know is why isn’t there a system in place that polices corporations the same way we are policed in our everyday lives?
  
  Humans have their bosses, police, government, all these regulations that directly affect our lives.
  
  Who the fuck makes sure that corporations that are unfathomably huge won’t be the degenerate subhuman piles of shit that they are? The IRS? lol. The better business bureau? Kill me.
  
  Oh what’s that? Capitalism? Your dollar chooses?
  
  I sincerely hope god is real because I’d love to see Raegan in hell once my gay ass gets there.
  
  Instead of living in what America was supposed to be about: burgers, dreams, and freedom; we have instead chosen to let these giant corporate fuckwads and their c-suite cronies decide that we shall work 60hour work weeks and bleed for health insurance money, or even worse, a basic livable wage.
  
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  That was the FTC's job, but obviously it got neutered by the free market people.
  
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- If anything, she is owed the cost of the product and legal fees. Is she alleging emotional damage? Disappoinment is not worth $5 million.
  
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  It's a class action lawsuit, so the $5 million would be split up across everybody that purchased this product (and the lawyers).
  
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  There's often large numbers depending on the severity, to discourage others from doing it. It doesn't need to just be compensation to the person.
  
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- It's to get them to settle for six figures.
  
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So if they settle and don't change the product doesn't that leave a precedent so anyone can then just sue them and automatically win?

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- That precedent is already in place ya. You think some judge with pockets as deep as 5 of you is gonna bite the hand that feeds thousands of his constituents? Instead it’s going to be some fine that will leave the bottom line untouched, and the taxpayers sedated with their other problems.
  
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This is the best summary I could come up with:

Cynthia Kelly filed a federal class-action lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida, alleging several Reese's products don't match their photos as depicted on the wrappers.

For example, Reese's peanut butter pumpkins are merely pumpkin-shaped hunks of peanut-butter-stuffed chocolate, and the actual product has no Jack O'lantern-style carvings as the wrapper depicts, Kelly alleges.

She says the same is true for the peanut butter footballs and bats, as well as the white chocolate ghosts.

The suit says Kelly bought a bag of peanut butter pumpkins for $4.49 at an Aldi in Hillsborough County, Florida in late October 2023.

"Plaintiff and the members of the Class have been aggrieved by Defendant's unfair and deceptive practices," the suit reads.

CBS News Philadelphia has reached out to The Hershey Company for comment and will update if we hear back.

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Americans got so happy with suing everyone that it became the norm for corporations to simply settle out of court and keep fucking everyone else. There is no change. Just outrage.

I got mine, why should you?

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- law suits are the only method that Americans have to tell the government "hey this person is breaking the law" when it comes to corporations. this is quite frankly false advertising. the company should get fined for this. unfortunately we don't have a government that would ever do that on their own. this is basically citizen action to enforce a law. who gets payed isn't really the point, it'll mostly be the lawyers no matter what anyway.
  
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