Goodbye! Slimfast

07/10/04 | dvan

[dvan]

We enjoyed your products. They have made a great contribution to health and a healthy lifestyle.

However we cannot abide your TV spokesperson Whoopie Goldberg and her crude, vulgar, hate filled rhetoric against our President. As long as Whoopi is a spokesperson for your products we will elect to use products from other companies such as Carbsmart, etc..

Continue to support this lightning rod and her hatefilled rhetoric as you lose corporate profits.

Goodbye!

[Hildy]

Here's what I wrote:

Re: Whoopi Goldberg
I use your products several times a year when I want to take off some quick weight. However, I cannot support your company as long as you have this woman as your spokesperson. While you pay her, she represents you. She did not do you well the other night. It's a free Country, you feel strongly about her, go ahead and keep her on. Your business will go down. I guarantee it. I'll find another product to use as will everybody I speak to. This just wasn't Whoopi giving her opinion as a US citizen, this was a crude, drunken tirade. Can you imagine what this country would be like if nobody was help at all accountable for the inappropriate things they say and do because they are celebrities? It's your choice, it's who you want to be as a Company. I wish you good luck with your decision.

[randog]

I thought I was Jenny Craig??

No, you're Kevin Davis....;^)

Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers....one of those weight-loss outfits that Monica had no business hawking.

[GregB]

Didn't know but's could get that ugly!!!!

[Hildy]

I meant HELD at all responsible.

[Kuksool]

Slim Fast products are over priced. There are plenty of copy cat products (Slim For Le$$) that work just as well and are cheaper.

[atomicpossum]

"Following the recent behavior of SlimFast spokesperson Whoopi Goldberg with her profane and disgusting performance maligning the current President of the United States, I would like to ask SlimFast to reconsider their choice of spokesperson.

Such activities and base behavior is unflattering to any company's product, and has made me seriously reconsider any support I may show for your product. Should Ms. Goldberg's representation of your products continue, the image of SlimFast will become even more tied to her profane, obscene and hateful political rhetoric.

As this is quite insulting to me, a supporter of both the President and SlimFast, should she remain as your spokesperson, I will be forced to reconsider my patronage of your company."

[KevinDavis]

That is correct.. Why I don't know...

[Boundless]

My read of SlimFast ingredients is that they are
overly focused on low-fat, are protein-deficient,
and are thus too far from 30-30-40 "balance".

Balance Bar and Zone Perfect products might make a
more effective alternative, entirely apart from the
issue of unpalatable spokespeople.

[Admin Moderator]

bttt

[falcon1966]

Whoopi looks like she ate Jenny Craig.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[mcg1969]

Whoopi, you're not supposed to eat the can, just the drink that is inside it.

[Tall_Texan]

My submission:

"Thank you for having Whoopi Goldberg as a spokesperson for your product. Since weight loss is the primary goal of SlimFast, having an ugly, obnoxious, foul-mouthed anti-American traitor-slut as your pitchwoman has many times caused me to lose my appetite, not just for food but for SlimFast as well. I couldn't have reached my weight-loss goals without you. Thanks again."

[jimbo123]

Register your complaints about Whoopie with Slim-Fast's Parent Company:

Unilever US
Lever House
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New York
N.Y. 10022-4698
Tel: +1 212 888 1260 Fax: +1 212 906 4666
E-Mail:
nancy.goldfarb@unilever.com
katharine.beyer@unilever.com

Unilever PLC
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Fax: +44 (0) 20 7822 5951
Email:
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Unilever NV
Address: Weena 455
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www.unilever.nl

Tel: +31 (0) 10 2174000
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Email:
tom.gordijn@unilever.com
richard-van-der.eijk@unilever.com
alexandra.middendorp@unilever.com



Send Slim-Fast COMPLAINTS here...

[L`enn]

Here is my message to Slim-Fast:

I have been a faithful user of SlimFast, and although it has performed as advertised., I am writing you to tell you that I will cease buying your product as long as Whoopi Goldberg is your corporate "face". Her comments at a recent Kerry fundraiser are beyond the pale. I have several issues with the President, but if I had a public personna as Ms Goldberg I would measure my comments knowing what that personna is. Free speech is fine , and a protected right, but also words should have consequences. She is free to say as she likes, but I am also free to spend my money where I like. Free speech is fine for people like Ms Goldberg when they are speaking, but when an opposing view is stated, suddenly free spech is not so important. And so to reiterate, I shall not be spending any of my money on SlimFast as long as she is your corporate face.

Regards,

[anonymous_user]

[Rome2000]

I hear slimfast profits were already down 25% because of the Atkins.

Democrats must be completely out of their minds allowing Whoopi to get within 500 feet of the door to that fundraiser, much less invite her on stage to speak.

They have terrible judgement.

[UB355]

I also sent them a note.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Just sent a letter. FREEPS AWAY!!

[alameda]

email sent...