Posted on 02/05/2021 8:06:05 AM PST by mylife
Nearly 80 cups of coffee for less than $3? Market Basket’s 11.5-ounce house brand ground coffee cans seemed like a deal too good to be true.
According to a Massachusetts man’s lawsuit, that’s because it was.
Two of Market Basket’s “misleading” coffee cans included less than half the number of rounded tablespoons that had been advertised on their packages, alleges a proposed class action lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court on behalf of Weymouth resident David Cohen.
According to the suit, Cohen purchased the Tewksbury-based grocery store’s 11.5-ounce House Blend and 11.5-ounce House Blend Decaf coffee cans under the “reasonable belief” that they contained 79 and 76 servings, respectively, as indicated by small labels near the bottom of the cans.
However, according to the lawsuit, “expert” third-party testing revealed the actual number of servings in the House Blend and House Blend Decaf were 39 and 37, respectively, meaning that they contained 40 and 39 servings less than advertised. In each case, the lawsuit says customers were being “cheated out of 51% of the servings they paid for.”
The suit says Cohen would not have bought the coffee cans — priced at $2.65 and $2.99 for decaf — or would have looked for a lower price if he had “known the truth.”
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“Grounds” for lawsuit? Is this a pun?
WTF sues over a $2.65 can of coffee? was it good coffee?
WTF sues over a $2.65 can of coffee? was it good coffee?
My dear Mr Cohen
THe cup pictured looks to be a 4oz vessel
Most os us drink from 8oz cups
I guess it depends on how strong you like your coffee and what constitutes a “rounded” tablespoon. If the top of the pile of coffee in your tablespoon is only slightly convex, would that not be “rounded”?
This reminds me of the guy that sued a big box lumber store for advertising 2x4’s, but they were really only 1.5 x 3.5 inches. Oh, and he won. Never mind that they’ve been called 2x4’s for at lest a century.
Courts are funny. :)
Bean counter.
I see a big lawyer fee brewing.
The “Chock Full of Nuts” of this guy....☕
We have Joe and Kommie in the white house and this is what concerns this Masshole?
No need for him to brewed over this.
Doubt it. He bought it from Market Basket after all.
How much is a rounded tablespoon? I like coffee good and strong, so my rounded tablespoon would likely be somewhat higher than, say, the rounded tablespoon one of my aunts, who was so stingy with the coffee that you could see the bottom of the cup. She could have gotten a good 100 cups from this container.
If they say one rounded tablespoon makes one cup of coffee they are making very weak coffee!
He’ll get roasted in this suit.
Back in the mid-70’s a puget sound area car dealer was sued because he used the word, “bananas” instead of “dollars” in a newspaper ad. The plaintiff showed up with the correct number of bananas, but they wouldn’t sell him the car.
I believe the plaintiff won in that case too.
In a litigious nation, humor is expensive.
Pathetic. It does say to use “One rounded tablespoon”. Based on that, I guess he’s correct but maybe lodging a complaint with the grocery store and getting your $2.50 back would work?
I wonder if measured the coffee amount by the “cups” marked on a standard carafe, the kind used to make this generic “coffee”.
Oh wait...
Double lawsuit!
they need to filter out these frivolous lawsuit claims
he loses
A “cup” of coffee in the US is usually 4 fluid ounces (118 ml), brewed using 5 fluid ounces (148 ml) of water. Coffee carafes used with drip coffee makers, e.g. Black and Decker models, have markings for both water and brewed coffee as the carafe is also used for measuring water prior to brewing.[5] A 12-cup carafe, for example, has markings for 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 cups of water or coffee, which correspond to 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 US fluid ounces (0.59, 0.89, 1.18, 1.48, and 1.77 l) of water or 16, 24, 32, 40, and 48 US fluid ounces (0.47, 0.71, 0.95, 1.18, and 1.42 l) of brewed coffee respectively, the difference being the volume absorbed by the coffee grounds and lost to evaporation during brewing.
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