Nestle to buy Jenny Craig.

Is this like Good Cop/Bad Cop of the food world?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060619/bs_nm/food_nestle_dc

"This acquisition will also reinforce Nestle Nutrition's presence in the USA, the world's largest nutrition and weight management market," Nestle said in a statement.

 

As far as excess weight goes, Nestle giveth, Nestle will taketh away

 

Talk about passive aggressive.

 

LAY OFF ME I'M STARVING!!!

 

Looks like they have both ends of the market under control.

 

Yeah, no one ever busted GM for making both Geos and Caddys.

 

I'd say it's more like Philip Morris selling cigarettes and nicotine patches -- sort of the disease and the cure.

 

Next up,

Ex-Lax will come out with a brand of stool softener.

 

Sort of like Phillip Reynolds owning Kraft.
People who smoke generally eat less.
People who quit smoking generally eat to help make up for it.
Either way, PR makes a ton.

 

And toilet paper.

 

Nice work by the boys over Nestle.

Kind of like a drug cartel operating an expensive rehab clinic.

 

Wait, it must be getting late here. Ex Lax is a stool softener. Duhh!