That wasn’t going to last.
General Mills is scrapping a controversial plan to strip consumers of their right to sue the company.
The Minnesota-based food giant had posted a notice on its website notifying visitors of a change to its legal terms — visitors using its websites or engaging with it online in a variety of other ways meant they would have to give up their right to sue.
Instead, the new terms said, people would need to have disputes resolved through informal negotiation or arbitration.
“We are announcing today that we have reverted back to our prior legal terms, which contain no mention of arbitration,” the e-mail said over the weekend.