There's no whiskey in mini bottles of Fireball, so customers are suing for fraud
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Re: There's no whiskey in mini bottles of Fireball, so customers are suing for fraud
#2Huh. I remember seeing some of those little bottles at a covenience store a while back and wondering about that. Here in NC, liquor can normally only be sold at state controlled ABC stores. I guess now I know.
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#3> The 99-cent bottles are sold in 170,000 stores, including gas stations and grocery stores, prompting some customers to wonder what products they presumed to contain liquor were doing there
Is it many US states where such places can't sell liquor? (I know there's some areas with quite strict rules, but was surprised that wasn't explicitly referenced in the article)
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#4They both contain alcohol. The one that is labelled "whiskey" contains whiskey, the one that is not labelled "whiskey" doesn't contain whiskey.
Should a rational consumer find this to be deceptive?
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#5> The 99-cent bottles are sold in 170,000 stores, including gas stations and grocery stores, prompting some customers to wonder what products they presumed to contain liquor were doing there Is it many US states where such places can't sell liquor? (I know there's some areas with quite strict rules, but was surprised that wasn't explicitly referenced in the article)
>Is it many US states where such places can't sell liquor? (I know there's some areas with quite strict rules, but was surprised that wasn't explicitly referenced in the article)
[extremely Ron Swanson voice]
Not everyplace can you buy a handle of hard liquor in the CVS like it's Bloomington.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_laws_of_the_United_Sta...
Re: There's no whiskey in mini bottles of Fireball, so customers are suing for fraud
#6They both contain alcohol. The one that is labelled "whiskey" contains whiskey, the one that is not labelled "whiskey" doesn't contain whiskey. Should a rational consumer find this to be deceptive?
> malt beverage with natural whisky & other flavors and carmel color
this is lexically ambiguous and I'm not going to blame anyone, especially someone buying 99c bottles of fake whiskey at a convenience store, for mis-understanding it and thinking it meant it contains whiskey.
I do think the headline here is disingenuous to say "consumers" are suing. Some class-action-mill law firm is suing.
This seems like yet another class action created by lawyers, purely for the benefit of lawyers where the vast majority of any benefit will go to the attorneys other professionals involved and a token amount will end up going to the consumers being "harmed" here.
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#7I saw a "Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Gummy Candy". Can I sue someone for that? Not necessarily for fraud. that the product exists is an offense to human dignity.
Then we can go after the people making "Fruity Pebbles flavor" $everything. I've seen pancake syrup, I expect floor wax and lighter fluid versions next.
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#8They both contain alcohol. The one that is labelled "whiskey" contains whiskey, the one that is not labelled "whiskey" doesn't contain whiskey. Should a rational consumer find this to be deceptive?
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#9I saw a "Kraft Macaroni and Cheese Gummy Candy". Can I sue someone for that? Not necessarily for fraud. that the product exists is an offense to human dignity. Then we can go after the people making "Fruity Pebbles flavor" $everything. I've seen pancake syrup, I expect floor wax and lighter fluid versions next.
Fruity Pebbles flavor is really just citrus fruits. I found this "lemon and orange" tea that is spot-on (as a tea snob I hate that I love it):
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#10On a perhaps unrelated note, I've been paying closer attention to ingredients as inflation continues rampaging. I don't know if I'm just noticing it more or not, but there seems to be an increases prevalence of clever package design that tries to obscure the fact that there is no chocolate in "Chocolatey Chip Cookies" or any Dark Chocolate in Nature Valley Dark Chocolate Protein Granola bars or w/e. But they're on sale for the sweet price of whatever the normal price was before! $5 for 4 bars totalling 148g!
https://www.naturevalley.ca/products/peanut-butter-dark-choc...
They get around the latter example by putting "Flavour" in a tiny font size and color that blends in with the background, on a new line; you have to be looking for it. For something called "Nature Valley", they sure as hell don't give off that vibe