You didn't see what was at the bottom of the bowl?
"General Mills backs off plan to limit suits" Associated Press April 21, 2014
NEW YORK — General Mills is scrapping a controversial plan to strip consumers of their right to sue the food company.
The company, whose brands include Cheerios, Progresso, and Yoplait, had posted a notice on its website notifying visitors of a change in its legal terms: People using its websites or engaging with it online in a variety of other ways would have to give up their right to sue.
Instead, the new terms said, any disputes would have to be resolved through informal negotiation or arbitration.
The Minnesota company’s decision was widely denounced on social media after The New York Times wrote a story published Wednesday and bearing the headline ‘‘When ‘Liking’ A Brand Online Voids the Right to Sue.’’ The next day, General Mills clarified the meaning of its new terms to say they did not apply when people engaged with its brands on Facebook and Twitter.
‘‘No one is precluded from suing us merely by purchasing our products at the store or liking one of our brand Facebook pages. That is just a mischaracterization,’’ the company said.
The terms would apply in instances such as when people subscribed to one of its publications or downloaded its coupons from its websites, General Mills said.
Despite the clarification, the company apparently continued to feel pressure regarding its new terms and issued another statement late Saturday saying that it decided to return to the previous legal terms.
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Corporate governance ta$tes as $hitty as their cereals, imho.
