Posted on 05/04/2023 5:54:03 PM PDT by lowbridge
Jenny Craig will close its doors after four decades in the weight loss and nutrition business, according to internal communications to employees reviewed by NBC News.
In an email sent to employees late Tuesday, the company said it will close “due to its inability to secure additional financing.” Jenny Craig corporate and salaried field employees' last day will be Friday, and hourly center employees’ last day working was Tuesday. The company operated about 500 company-owned and franchised stores in the United States and Canada, according to H.I.G. Capital when it acquired Jenny Craig for an undisclosed amount in April 2019. It now employs more than 1,000 people.
Last week, corporate employees at the company’s Carlsbad, California, office received a WARN Act notice that the company would be closing the office June 24, but may close as soon as Friday. A FAQ was also sent by Jenny Craig to employees, explaining that it would wind down physical operations to transition to an e-commerce model.
For the past two weeks, Jenny Craig had been running out of money as it searched for a buyer. Bloomberg Law reported last month that the company was pursuing a sale. Two current Jenny Craig corporate employees say they fear the company will file for bankruptcy by the end of the week.
Neither Jenny Craig nor H.I.G. Capital, a $55 billion private equity firm, have responded to requests for comment.
Jenny Craig was founded in 1983 to help people lose weight, and the brand became a household name for its weight loss program. The program provided special menus designed by chefs and nutritionists to help consumers lose weight. The company recruited celebrities to front the brand, including actors Kirstie Alley, Valerie Bertinelli and Jason Alexander, and singer-songwriter Mariah Carey.
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There comes a time to throw in the towel.
I’ve noticed most younger women don’t give a damn if they’re chunky. The guys are no prize either.
This is a big surprise. Perhaps it has to do with how their money has been budgeted. Maybe the Covid era threw their ability to generate income in disarray. It may have been poorly managed to begin with. Maybe most Jenny C.s are in cities that have become infested with Homeless bums who scare patrons away from their doors.
Also, being fat is to be celebrated these days.
Hey — be fat
You got all those Big Pharma drugs free when you have govt health care. Dozens of weight loss Rx.
Did Jenny Craig go woke?
It’s cool to be fat nowadays.
Watch some home movies or news footage from the 50s and 60s, you very seldom see a person as fat as you’ll find just about anywhere you look today.
That’s true to a great degree. Look at Lizzo (not too long).
Look at singer Sam (Pilsbury Doughboy) Smith.
Showy and shameless!
Sorry, women don’t give a crap anymore. Maybe we reinvent as a tattoo chain.
I imagine Nutrasystem is next. People prefer to go on low carb/keto diets and get the “diabetic” shots instead of buying lousy boxed diet food-and there’s always Lean Cuisine.
Boo-hoo
seems kinda wierd to me, there is literally NO shortage of fat people in the US, to me it looks like 75% at least.
Not for long....Lean Cuisine I read is getting the ax too.
Weight Watchers went all in with the new diabetes drug. I think that might have been the final needle stick in the Jenny Craig voodoo doll.
There's lots of YT videos taken at random shopping malls in the 70s and 80s. The difference is obvious.
It’s a fat & sloppy world, now...
Servility, indolence, and blissfully grazing are to blame...
Perfect serfs for absolute tyrants...
These words need to be inserted into the dangerous & hurtful original Pledge of Allegiance and the dangerous & hurtful original National Anthem...
All of whom remained fat.
Did Jenny Craig go woke?
“In March 2018, the company reportedly pulled its advertisements from The Ingraham Angle as a result of host Laura Ingraham cyberbullying David Hogg”
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