Fresh Bread from Whole Foods, Wegmans Food Markets, and Acme Markets

August 2015: A federal judge dismissed these three related actions finding, among other things, that plaintiffs did not properly plead the fraud-based allegations. Click here to read the court’s decision and learn more.

December 2014: Three class-action lawsuits were filed (and transferred to federal court in January 2015) against three different supermarket chains – Whole Foods, Wegmans Food Markets, and Acme Markets – for allegedly falsely marketing bread as freshly made and made in the stores when the bread was actually made somewhere else, delivered to the stores frozen, and re-baked or partially baked at the store. For more information about each case, click on the case information below.

• Mao et al v. Acme Markets, Inc. and ABC Corps 1-10, Case No. 15-cv-00618, D. NJ.
• Popova Mladenov et al v. Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., Case No. 15-cv-00373, D. NJ.
• Mladenov et al v. Whole Foods, Inc., Case No. 15-cv-382, D. NJ.

For more information about other class-action lawsuits filed against Whole Foods and TINA.org’s coverage of the company, click here.