--- title: Woman Wants Lifetime of KitKats After Buying Waferless Pack description: She's claiming emotional and monetary losses canonical: https://time.com/4204683/kitkat-woman-lifetime-supply/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-02T18:56:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:36.875Z og:title: Woman Wants Lifetime of KitKats After Buying Waferless Pack og:description: It didn't have a wafer in it og:url: https://time.com/4204683/kitkat-woman-lifetime-supply/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21cc326c72609c55/69887bd6196cf4330703a277/gettyimages-94106239.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Nestle To Make Fairtrade KitKats og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Woman Wants Lifetime of KitKats After Buying Waferless Pack twitter:description: It didn't have a wafer in it twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21cc326c72609c55/69887bd6196cf4330703a277/gettyimages-94106239.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Woman Demands Lifetime Supply of KitKats After Buying Defective Pack > Sponsored content. 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Nestle SA, the world's biggest food company, will start certifying some KitKat bars in the U.K. and Ireland as Fairtrade, following Cadbury Plc, which started producing mass-market Fairtrade chocolate this year. Bloomberg via Getty Images  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Feb 2, 2016 6:56 PM UTC A student studying law in England is threatening to [sue](http://www.itv.com/news/2016-02-01/woman-threatens-legal-action-over-waferless-kitkat-demands-lifetime-supply/) Nestle after buying a multi-pack of KitKats missing their signature wafers. Saima Ahmad, 20, is seeking a lifetime supply of [the chocolate snack](http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/02/18/13-most-influential-candy-bars-of-all-time/slide/kit-kat/), ITV News reports, claiming “monetary and emotional” loss. The Kings College London student wrote a letter to Nestle explaining her issues. “The specific duty you owe in consistency in your manufacturing process. The failure to take due care in the manufacturing process resulted in a product being defective,” she said. “As a result I feel as though I have been misled to part with my money and purchase a product that is clearly different from what has been marketed by Nestle.” Ahmad purchased the defective KitKat multi-pack for £2 ($2.88) \[[_ITV_](http://www.itv.com/news/2016-02-01/woman-threatens-legal-action-over-waferless-kitkat-demands-lifetime-supply/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4204683/kitkat-woman-lifetime-supply/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4204683/kitkat-woman-lifetime-supply/"},"headline":"Woman Demands Lifetime Supply of KitKats After Buying Defective Pack","datePublished":"2016-02-02T18:56:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:36.875Z","description":"It didn't have a wafer inside it","url":"https://time.com/4204683/kitkat-woman-lifetime-supply/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21cc326c72609c55/69887bd6196cf4330703a277/gettyimages-94106239.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt21cc326c72609c55/69887bd6196cf4330703a277/gettyimages-94106239.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Nestle To Make Fairtrade KitKats","caption":"Nestle To Make Fairtrade KitKats","creditText":"Bloomberg via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4204683/kitkat-woman-lifetime-supply/","name":"Woman Demands Lifetime Supply of KitKats After Buying Defective Pack"}}]}] ```