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Episode: Reeseβs $25,000 promotion may violate sweepstakes laws
Description: Reese's may be in violation of state and federal laws with its new sweepstakes offer currently advertised on packs of peanut butter cups. The promotion on two-cup packages reads "You could win $25,000" and, in smaller print, "See details inside." But only after consumers have bought and opened a package can they see the small print: no purchase is necessary to enter the sweepstakes.
The Reese's contest was first reported by Edgar Dworsky, a consumer advocate and former assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, who runs the Consumer World website.
Hershey Co., the Pennsylvania candymaker that owns the Reese's brand, didn't immediately...