Two Class Action Lawsuits Allege Folgers Coffee Packaging Claims Are Misleading

Two class action lawsuits have been filed challenging the veracity of the serving sizes and quantity listed on Folgers coffee products.

Plaintiffs Geoff Thompson and Julie Marthaller separately filed their class action lawsuits in Texas and Washington, respectively, but the complaints make similar allegations. Both plaintiffs say they were misled by Folgers’ purported serving sizes and deceived into paying a higher price for the products.

Thompson says he has regularly purchased Folgers coffee products once every two weeks from his local grocery stores. When purchasing these products, Thompson allegedly relied on product packaging representations regarding the servings provided by each container.

For example, Thompson reportedly believed statements on a 30.5-ounce Folgers Classic Roast container that its contents could make 240 cups of coffee due to prominent packaging advertisements.

These representations were false and misleading, according to Thompson. The plaintiff argues the 30.5-ounce Folgers coffee container he purchased only contained enough coffee to make about 203 servings — 85% of the advertised 240 servings.

Although some Folgers ground coffee products may contain enough coffee to make the represented number of servings, Thompson says the products he purchased were unable to live up to the labeling promises.

“Plaintiff would have paid significantly less for the product had he known that the product did not contain enough ground coffee to make the represented number of servings of coffee,” Thompson’s Folgers coffee class action lawsuit contends.

“Therefore, Plaintiff suffered injury in fact and lost money as a result of Defendants’ misleading, false, unfair, and deceptive practices, as described herein.”

Marthaller tells a similar story, claiming that the 25.4-ounce container of Folgers coffee she purchased was only able to make 169 cups of coffee instead of the advertised 210 cups.

The plaintiffs each seek to represent a nationwide Class of consumers who purchased allegedly mislabeled Folgers coffee products. The plaintiffs also seek to represent Subclasses of the same consumers from Texas or Washington, respectively.

According to Thomson and Marthaller, these Class Members were financially injured by Folgers’ packaging misrepresentations.

These are not the first class action lawsuits to challenge Folgers’ serving-size representations.

One of the first challenges was filed in May, followed quickly by additional allegations in June and further claims in December.

Like the plaintiffs in the more recent cases, the previous plaintiffs claim they were misled by Folgers’ serving-size representations and were thereby deceived into paying a higher price for the products.

Did you purchase Folgers coffee products? Were you misled by the product’s serving sizes? Share your experiences in the comment section below.

Plaintiffs and the proposed Classes in both cases are represented by Bonner C. Walsh of Walsh PLLC.

The Texas Folgers Coffee Class Action Lawsuit is Geoff Thompson v. The J.M. Smucker Co., et al., Case No. 1:21-cv-00009-MJT, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

The Washington Folgers Coffee Serving Size Class Action Lawsuit is Julie Marthaller v. The J.M. Smucker Co., et al., Case No. 2:21-cv-00021-SMJ, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington.

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