Krispy Kreme sued over fake blueberry donuts

I understand that Krispy Kreme should be held accountable for false advertising and labeling... but $5Million??? That's a lotta donuts!!!

Can anyone quantify that amount?

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/11/15/krispy-kreme-sued-over-fake-blueberry-donuts/

 

5 million in "damages" lol...

Pathetic. These are the people today...damages. Sheesh.....

 

The Krispy Kreme Klan is sugar inside sugar dipped in sugar. They should be sued for impersonating a donut shop.

DD rocks!! They're #1 in my book.

 

/wall What a waste of time for everyone. The only good KK donut is the original anyhow....and fresh. The rest are either too sweet or fake. Their jelly is terrible. As if anyone believes theirs fruit in their=)

 

I don't like my donut. I want $5 million for my pain and suffering!

 

people sued subway when some of their sandwiched were an inch short, now there is no more $5 footlong.

 

So what was the exact nature of the damages due to people eating artificial blubbery flavored donuts vs real blueberry f,avkred donuts? So if a food product has artificial vanillin flavor instead of natural vanilla should the foid producer be sued.

They did not charge extra for the blueberry flavored donuts did they! If they charged extra for the blueberry fkavored donuts and they advertised it as natural real fruit blueberry donut then the court could make KK give out reduced priced donuts fir a while as an atonement.

We say that the punishment must fit the crime. Well if KK did not not artificially enrich themselves there was no crime. No foul folks.

 

I would award them one box of plain donuts, and a pack of real blueberries. 5 mill is bull(*)(*)(*)(*) and a waste of the court's time.

 

True enough, but irrelevant. Thanks for coming.

 

This is why I effing hate lawyers. They have played a major role in ruining this once fine country.

 

Seems to me that Maine went after blueberry mass produced food once because they were using Maine blueberries in their ads but not in their product. They were using Michigan blueberries which are apparently different.

 

Understood, but labeling rarely (if ever) tell you where the ingredients originate. I do not see that as fraud or being mislabeled.

 

Some people are snobs about their blueberries apparently.

 

I remember as a young child in the 1950s being in the studio audience of a live TV show while they was producing a commercial for a tiny vacuum cleaner.

They was showing how powerful the little guy happen to be by picking up items however the studio audience if not the TV audience could see that it was an off camera full size shop vacuum that was doing the work and not the tiny vacuum they was selling.

How many millions in 1950s money should they had been force to paid for this out and out fraud people?

 

Blueberries have no business being in any real doughnut. Who would even BUY one of these? Geesh!!

 

What if the lawsuit is actually a scam by their faux blueberry vendor to sell more blueberry doughnuts. People will run out and buy one so they can be part of the class action lawsuit too and then the guy sells more fake blueberry drops to KK, and then drops the lawsuit?

 

Point taken, but $5mil for donuts??? C'mon!

 

It's not like it's for one person, everyone who bought their product under false pretenses is entitled to compensation. Do you think corps should be able to lie about their products with no penalty?

 

If it's a jury trial, they'll get their 5M. Juries are crazy when it comes to lawsuits like this.

Real 'Stella Awards'........

 

It’s a class action so theoretically covered every customer who ever bought one of the products under question. Also, I believe the US system means that suits typically start out asking for the most extreme amount because what they’ll receive if they win can only ever go down, not up. I can also be a bit of a scare tactic to encourage the defendant to settle for a much lower (but still significant) amount.

 

It seems a bit over the top to hate all lawyers over the actions of a small number of lawyers. A minority of lawyers are litigators and of that group are personal injury lawyers, and a minority of them are bottom feeders who litigate to shake loose money from corporations.

 

No , of course not. But the penalty should be appropriate. I do not think $5mil is appropriate.

 

One guy brought the suit though. I didn't see everyone who bought their product lining the streets.

It's one loser who thinks he was "damaged" in any way by eating a donut from a fast food vendor lol. Hope the case gets tossed out, and hope he gets billed for wasting the courts time.

 

Agreed, they should have gone for 10M.

 

Do you think businesses should face any comeback at all for false advertising?