{"id":6647,"date":"2016-02-26T04:22:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T04:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/26\/oprah-effect-fails-to-lift-weight-watchers-sales-shares-plunge\/"},"modified":"2016-02-26T04:22:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T04:22:26","slug":"oprah-effect-fails-to-lift-weight-watchers-sales-shares-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/26\/oprah-effect-fails-to-lift-weight-watchers-sales-shares-plunge\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah effect fails to lift Weight Watchers sales; shares plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/weight-watchers-sales-drop-21-percent-shares-plunge-003428107--sector.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016-02-26T003428Z_2_LYNXNPEC1O1BI_RTROPTP_2_WEIGHTWATCHERS-OPRAHWINFREY.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"Sign for Weight Watchers is displayed at an office in New York\" align=\"left\" title=\"Sign for Weight Watchers is displayed at an office in New York\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The company roped in Winfrey as its public face in October, in a bid to use her popularity to lift subscription numbers and reverse a nearly three-year decline in sales. The former TV talk-show star sparked interest in Weight Watchers by hosting a conference call with its members and tweeting about her weight loss under a company program. It is too early to judge Winfrey&#8217;s impact on driving sales, S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence analyst Efraim Levy said, adding he expected the stock and earnings to be volatile.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company roped in Winfrey as its public face in October, in a bid to use her popularity to lift subscription numbers and reverse a nearly three-year decline in sales. The former TV talk-show star sparked interest in Weight Watchers by hosting a conference call with its members and tweeting about her weight loss under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-6647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/2016-02-26T003428Z_2_LYNXNPEC1O1BI_RTROPTP_2_WEIGHTWATCHERS-OPRAHWINFREY.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}