Class Action Alleges Home City Ice Company Underfills ‘Seven-Pound’ Bags of Ice

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An Ohio consumer alleges in a proposed class action lawsuit that the Home City Ice Company’s “7 lb” bags of ice do not truthfully weigh seven pounds. According to the 17-page lawsuit, Hamilton County, Ohio’s Home City Ice fraudulently “deceives and shortchanges” consumers by consistently and substantially underfilling its ice bags despite representing that each bag has a net weight of seven pounds.

The nine-count case states that the defendant distributes ice to grocery stores, gas stations and other retailers nationwide, including in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Maryland, New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Missouri, Georgia and Wisconsin. Typically, the suit explains, Home City Ice’s products are separated by weight, with bags weighing either seven or 22 pounds.

According to the complaint, Home City Ice’s ostensible seven-pound bags “weigh substantially less” than the net weight emblazoned on the side of their packaging. The plaintiff argues that he has on multiple occasions paid more for ice than he actually received, “thereby increasing the Defendant’s revenue and profit on the transaction for nothing in return,” the lawsuit says.

Included in the complaint is the following image that purports to depict the true weight of a “seven-pound” bag of Home City ice:

The case charges that Home City Ice knew that its ice bags did not weigh the advertised seven pounds yet charged consumers for that amount of ice without disclosing such. Included in the proposed class are all consumers across the United States who bought a “7 lb” bag of ice from the defendant during the applicable limitations period.