False advertising can land some companies in hot water. A Florida woman is now suing Hershey because she was upset about the lack of designs on Reese’s holiday-themed peanut butter candy.
Cynthia Kelly filed a $5 million federal class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida after she alleged that several Reese’s products didn’t match their photos as depicted on the wrappers.
Kelly might be onto something here too as can be seen in Reese’s peanut butter pumpkins for Halloween. While the wrapper depicts the product to have Jack-O’lantern-style carvings, the actual chocolate is just a pumpkin-shaped piece of peanut butter-stuffed chocolate.
Similar things can be said about Reese’s peanut butter footballs, bats and white chocolate ghosts. Each wrapper shows the chocolate with carvings to better depict what the lump of chocolate is when in actuality, the product is only shaped like the object on the wrapper.
Kelly discovered this after she bought a bag of peanut butter pumpkins for $4.49 at an Aldi in Hillsborough County, Florida in late October 2023. She “believed that the product contained a cute-looking carving of a pumpkin’s mouth and eyes as pictured on the product packaging,” according to the suit.
She said that the candy football without any carved lines for the football stitching, “looks like eggs.” “Plaintiff and the members of the Class have been aggrieved by Defendant’s unfair and deceptive practices,” the suit reads. “They purchased the Products with the reasonable expectation that the Products would look similar to the pictures displayed on the Products’ packaging.”
Hershey has yet to comment on the situation.
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/florida-woman-cynthia-kelly-sues-hershey-reeses-candies/