Costco lost in case against coconut oil

[ianrobo]

class action brought saying costco own brand labelling of coconut oil a healthy was false.

Details here and can be read

Costco To Pay $775K To End Coconut Oil Labeling Suit - Law360

just checking if lead plaintiff had links to other groups like Soya !

[PrimalBrian]

Im not sure I’d say a 6-figure settlement of a class action is a loss. Sounds like a nuisance settlement to me.

Costco Coconut Oil Class Action Law Suit

Long story short. There is a class action law suit against Costco. They marketed coconut nut oil as being healthy and people sued. Where is the fat free class action? Or the eat carbs and exercise class action? Or allegedly “heart healthy” class action? I was heart broken seeing this in the mail. They just had a class action suit against a tool to reverse type 2 diabetes, kill cancer cells, reduce obesity, and a myriad of ailments attested to on this forum. [IMG_1505]

[d_to_the_c]

More like a rounding error for Costco. This was obviously a business decision to get the case finalized.

[Wishbone]

For some people its “money for nothing and checks for free!”

[ianrobo]

yes the money is small but they changed their labelling, that is not small for our WOE

[collaroygal]

Well some of Costco’s customers know the truth about coconut oil. No way I am going to think of it besides ‘healthy fat’. The courts can suck it and not sure who brought the case, but I bet big ag is behind it some how. Since USA can’t grow much coconut, just corn, sunflowers, rape, etc. for cooking oils.

[d_to_the_c]

More likely an enterprising attorney saw the report the AHA released and then got a class-action suit together to make some money. Costco doesn’t want to fight it because they just sell what people want to buy, doesn’t matter to them what the label says as long as people buy it. Buy it certainly is a step backward for getting the word out that its healthy.