(FranchisePick.Com) IS LA WEIGHT LOSS IN TROUBLE? The rumors started appearing a month or two before Pure Weight Loss (formerly LA Weight Loss) suddenly announced it was closing all 400 weight loss facilities nationwide. Shocked Pure Weight Loss. employees found themselves suddenly out of work. Thousands of members tried in vain to recover the hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars in prepaid services and products they had entrusted to the company.
While they started off together and use the same system, the franchise company currently operating as LA Weight Loss had disassociated itself from the company that became Pure Weight Loss well before it imploded. However, LA Weight Loss has had its own share of problems, and when rumors begin to escalate the way they did for Pure Weight Loss, we listen. A visitor recently commented:
June 11, 2008, DD wrote:
Watch for the ‘Closing’ signs of all LA Weight loss centers. First they start cutting back store hours, let go of some employee’s, then they begin to have a difficult time getting all their product. The biggest clue is that the local advertising slows way down. In my area I saw advertisements daily on many T.V. stations and heard them constantly on the radio. They rarely advertise now and they are quoting no prices. I believe, after being a former employee, that they are now near the end. They are doing all they can to get ANY business at this point in order to hang on until the end. This has been the pattern in other parts of the county. GET OUT NOW!!!!
June 10, 2008, Kim wrote:
I paid A LOT for my LA WEIGHT LOSS MEMBERSHIP and had a few months left. I had some stressors and stopped going for a few months, then decided to get jump started now that summer is here. Went to the store, and was shocked to see there was no sign, the store was empty, no sign on the door, and then I called and the phone rang and there was not even a message! And to think that last week I received a card in the mail to “Come back to LA for free”! I know the stores in Illinois closed, and I am over the border in Wisconsin. Right before I left, the store hours changed twice, and corporate was in there. I had a bad feeling about it and that also made me stop going. I am mad,feel like I got taken for a ride, and wonder how many may have just joined and got ripped off! These people need to be sued!
Apr 3, 2008, Laura House wrote:
Buzz is that the franchise centers are in just as much trouble as PURE/Corporate LAWL was. One of the largest franchisees, Barry Goodman, out of Brentwood, TN has shut down all of his south Florida centers with more on the way. At one time, Goodman owned over 100 LA Weight Loss Franchise Centers and was one of LAWL Franchise Companies biggest franchisees.
Also reported on other sites is that centers in Austin, TX, Corpus Christy, TX, and Victoria,TX are closing in additon to centers across the Tennessee area.
As a consumer or a potential franchisee– I would stay clear of this company. Looks like they are on their last legs.
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