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Inches-A-Weigh Franchise Failure Prompts Fraud Probe, Lawsuits
Lite for Life Offers Help to Members of Closed Inches-A-Weigh
A FranchisePick.com reader writes the following warning about the Inches A Weigh franchise opportunity:
As a former Inches a weigh owner, I would strongly urge anybody thinking of purchasing one to stop dead in your tracks, turn around and run the other way. The organization will make you all kinds of promises they are incapable of fulfilling. They are overworked, underqualified, and their methods are extremely outdated. Ask any corporate representative how many centers have closed …read more

(FranchisePick.Com)  Source: Some fitness clubs leave members in bad shape
…Chris Bruno, president of Burlingame-based weight-loss chain Lite for Life, said it’s not uncommon for fitness companies to change their name or shut down in response to lawsuits alleging shoddy business practices. Industry giant Pure Weight Loss, formerly LA Weight Loss, recently announced the closure of all 400 of its locations, including one in San Carlos.
After reading about Inches-A-Weigh’s closure in the Daily News, Bruno offered to honor its former customers’ contracts, saying he wants to show not all weight loss clubs are disreputable.
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(FranchisePick.Com) In retrospect, DiVecchio said, “It’s like they were selling a dream.”
A story today published in the Palo Alto Daily News and the San Jose Mercury News provides a dramatic example of how picking the wrong franchise can cost you more than your initial investment of time and money. In addition to bankruptcy, failed Inches-A-Weigh women’s fitness and weight loss franchise owner Connie DiVecchio must now contend with a criminal fraud investigation, an impending civil lawsuit, negative media publicity and the ire of customers who claim that only their wallets have gotten lighter.
Journalist Will Oremus’ article …read more

(FranchisePick.com)  The 60% of Americans who are overweight represent, in more ways than one, a huge and growing market.  While it’s hard for the naturally sveldt like you and I to relate to, the solution for the “other” 60% seems pretty clear:  Diet & Exercise.  While the marketers of miracle diet books, infomercial AB contraptions and foilwrapped wonderfoods would have you believe otherwise, losing weight, for the most part, means burning more calories (exercise) than you take in (diet).  So a franchise that combined both exercise and diet into one concept for women would be a beautiful thing, would it not?  As beautiful …read more