Pure Weight Loss Centers May Have Broken Law

22 01 2008

Pure Weight Loss Centers May Have Broken Law

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(FranchisePick.com) According to the story on CBS4 in Miami, Pure Weight Loss Centers might have broken the law when they left Florida dieters stranded by abruptly closing their weight loss centers. Their investigation continues.

Source: CBS4.com

Defunct Weight Loss Centers Might Have Broken Law

MIAMI (CBS4) ― When one of the state’s biggest diet companies shut it’s doors after the beginning of the year, it left hundreds of South Florida customers not only wondering if they’d ever get their money back but also what happened to all the private medical information the centers kept on file.

Say prosecutors, wondering the same thing, have widened their investigation into LA Weight Loss Centers and Pure Weight Loss Centers to see if they broke any laws.

“All girls want to look nice and I got a couple of pounds extra,” said Yaumary Rodriguez who originally signed up with an LA Weight Loss Center several years ago. Rodriguez stated by staying on the plan she lost 24 pounds in the past year.

“My goal was 30 pounds but when I got down to 24,” stated Rodriguez, “I decided not to keep losing more”

At the beginning of the year, Rodriguez stated she decided she needed to go back on the LA Weight Loss Center plan to help her drop a couple of pounds she picked up over the holidays. When she went to her local LA Weight Loss Center in Cutler Bay on January 4th to pick up her next shipment of weight loss bars, she said she was stunned to find that it had changed it’s name to Pure Weight Loss.

She received her second shock when she was informed that the store, which was still filled with LA Weight Loss products, was closing down.

“The companies were closing,” Rodriguez said she was told, “it was the last date of work for the whole company. They just shut and they never sent a notice to the people they never state anything.”

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