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In response to
"I'm one of the reasons they're tanking. As a lifetime member I don't pay dues, I don't pay for their online tools and I don't buy their products."
by
Meg
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yah, the core program (some notable experimental fails aside) has value*; but they've done -- (edited)
Posted by
b. (aka starrynit)
Oct 20 '15, 15:26
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a not-so-good job of staying competitive with their non-core offerings. examples: the premium for food they were selling at meetings which was super similar to things found at grocery stores for much less, full-price cookbooks when amazon had them for much less, high-price scales and measuring cups, etc. those extras started to feel like subsidizing for me, on top of increased costs for everything else.
I hope they figure out a way to get the program out there without the peripheral stuff being draggy. (and they need to show better results than that 5 pounds mentioned in the article I linked!)
*at its heart, the program hasn't really changed that much over years now. variations of a theme that get you to a similar place.
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